And I'm single so I get to do that shit in my underwear. Nobody judges. Except the cat. But that's acceptable.
I misread that without the "do that" and thought you were confessing to shitting yourself on the regular.
Driving to the beach today, I asked my five year old what she wanted to listen to. Without hesitation she said "Thundersteel!" For the uninitiated:
Hey, guys. The mother who somehow let her five year old son get into a horrible enclosure (I'm sure you heard already) has a message for us! God didn't save your fucking kid. Thanks to your carelessness, the zoo employees saved him by killing something THEY cared about deeply. Fuck yourself. Oh, if you guys need childcare, she runs a fucking daycare. You can't make this shit up.
I'll agree with the whole, "God didn't save your kid...the zoo's staff did. Plus a bit of luck." I do think, though, that we vilify parents SO badly for one second's worth of inattention. Everyone on this board over 30 grew up, most likely, with parents who were comfortable leaving you alone for short stretches of time when you were small. Now it seems we prefer to hover and never give kids one second of independence or unstructured anything. I'm not sure it's the right move. I think what happened to that mother could happen to anyone. You turn around to tend to one kid, or take off your hoodie and put it in a backpack, or pay for the pop you're buying, and BOOM. A kid takes off and you don't notice it for 60 seconds, which is all it takes. Shit happens and it doesn't necessarily mean someone is bad or neglectful.
Yeah my social media is near unreadable with all the gorilla bullshit. Sucks but what are you going to do? I do love how everyone is claiming they know the gorilla was actually protecting the kid. Top notch animal psychologist these folks.
Speaking as a parent, there have been plenty of "Hey, how did you get over there?!" moments with Li'l Bandit. I'm don't want to give the woman too much shit over something I could have been guilty of. However, I don't think they needed to kill the ape. Couldn't one of the handlers have gotten the kid back?
The experts tried to recall the gorillas to their internal area, and 2 of them (females) complied, and the male didn't. Then people yelling and screaming upset and agitated the male. But to answer your point, yes, the handlers did get the kid back, they just felt killing the gorilla was the safest course of action of the kid, as sedation isn't immediate, and an agitated fucking gorilla isn't something you fuck around with. I don't blame the mother in this case at all. If anything, I think the fault lies with the enclosure design, and I'm sure they will be reviewed and made more kid-safe.
I hate that the ape was shot. It makes me sick. But I won't sit and say that if my child had been the one beside him, I wouldn't have 100% supported the decision to kill the gorilla. Kids are quick. They're determined. They're little and they are opportunists. The kid wanted to go to the moat. The whole situation is awful and I'm glad the kid is okay but goddamn am I sad the gorilla is dead.
Apparently the kid told the Mom he wanted to go in there (according to the woman who shot the video). So I put some blame on her for not watching her kid after that.
If you are a zoo that has gorillas and kids in the same proximity, you better damn well get your enclosure to be both child and gorilla proof. To me, it's a reasonable expectation for a parent to have. I would consider such a proclamation from a kid similar to "I'm going to go walk on the moon", because there should be no way in hell the kid can pull it off, so you discount it.
Can you imagine the shitstorm if they had tried something else and the kid got killed? Especially since it was Cincinnati and the media would have portrayed it as the white zookeepers valuing the life of the animal more than the life of a black child.
In 38 years they never had a situation like this, like almost every zoo. Either something extraordinary happened, or some degree of carelessness.
Or sometimes shit just happens, and you then find the one extreme use case that shows you where your design sucks, and you then iterate on the design so it doesn't happen again. Maybe the kid was more energetic and determined than any other kid they've ever had... he still should not have been able to get into that pen unless it was specifically allowed. Regardless, to me, unless the parent picked the lock on a gate to get their kid in the enclosure, it's fully on the zoo to ensure that the separation between gorilla and child is enforced. In this case, they failed, and the "only" cost was the gorilla. Sure, the mother probably sucked at looking after her kid, but in this situation, to me, it doesn't matter one iota.
Or, maybe the other zoos have their shit together and the pens are properly designed. You have no way to speak into the design flaws of this enclosure vs other zoos, so don't create "facts" that are meant to support your argument without any sources.