Hanna said after looking at the footage that the gorilla would have gotten agitated with a tranquilizer hit and even thought the feeling had come from the little boy, who was still in his grasp. The reaction to the nonlethal hit could have killed the boy or damaged him for life. Hanna concluded the zoo people had no choice.
On TV clips they show the bear falling out of the tree, but they don't run it from the time the shot is taken until the bear goes limp. It's not even seconds .... the heart has to pump it into the system ... and this was a 400-450 pound animal .... even if he didn't react and harm the kid ... it could have collapsed on top of him and kept him under the water until they could get him off the kid...... lots of things could go wrong.
I get tired of these armchair pundits criticizing the split second decisions made.
Originally Posted by LexusLover
Hanna is correct. a tranquilizer dart isn't instant, it can take several minutes to take effect. in the meantime as LL said, the Gorilla could have thought the child caused the sting of the dart. he easily could have gone on a rampage and torn that kid up.
was the Gorilla being playful and or protective? probably so. that's why t
hey had to put him down. no choice at that point. why? because playful to a 450 pound Gorilla is way more than a human adult can handle, let along a small child. watch the video. the Gorilla, in dragging the kid around, without meaning to, could have caused major injuries. if the Gorilla decided he was going to protect the kid, does anyone
really think that zoo rescuers could have taken that kid back? no way. the Gorilla would have defended the kid
at any cost.
even if they tranquilized the Gorilla and he had not reacted violently, he could have accidentally killed the kid. how? by falling on him and pinning him underwater. that Gorilla weighted 450 pounds. how was that kid going to get out from underneath that kind of weight?
the interwebs are aflame with "social comment" on this and as usual they are 99% WRONG. they say things like .."the people videoing should have stopped this" .. WTF??? those people could have been dozens of yards from the family. how could they possibly have rushed over that fast and done anything? not possible.
they also blame the parents. like you can watch kids 24x7? right! you can't it's not possible. do these "social justice" warriors drag their kids into the shitter while they take a crap just so they are not alone? do they take showers with their kids so they are not alone? do they let their kids sleep in their beds so they are not alone?
please! what stupidity! you absolutely cannot watch a kid 24x7. even with two parents in shifts. it cannot be done. unless you are sick in the head and do things that would get you arrested. like take showers with your kid just so they are not alone? what crap. those same "social justice" warriors would call that sick, and in that context they'd be right. but you CANNOT EVER leave a child alone! not for 1 second!!! or so they say on the interwebs.
ahahahaha crap
you do that and you get a kid that can't do one gotdam thing by themselves. you get a
liberal ahahahaha .. where's the GOV to tell me what to do?? ahahaha
the zoo is at fault more-so than the parents. a 3 ft wall? please. any 4 year old in 2 seconds could climb over that. they are lucky the family won't sue them. of course, had the kid been severely injured or killed, they would sue, and in that circumstance, they should. of course given the "record" of the father they'd waste the money in no time flat. but that's not the point.
