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Originally Posted by Ki
This is my thought on it as well. Also, the kid should not have been able to get to where they were, and that should be the fault of the parents, not the zoo. You can use the argument that the animals shouldnt be on display, but hell, if a child was about to be attacked by a gorilla, my first instinct would definitely be to stop it as quick as possible by any means necessary.
The whole controversy around this story has been blown so far out of proportion. The fact of the matter is, the child's life was saved. If the child wasn't saved, people would still have a problem.
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I don't know enough about what the mother did or did not do, but I imagine every parent takes their eyes of their kid a few times in eighteen years, and sometimes that child then gets up to no good. Parents aren't supermen, and while I will defer to the hypothetical condemnation of actual parents who know how to keep their little nose miners in line, I think it's also unfair to just assume that the mother is a bad parent. Like I said, I'm sure every parent looses track of their kid at one point or another, and this just happened to occur in the worst possible spot.