Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla incident.

[ray1970]

Mirrors my opinion on the subject. With that out of the way, what caliber was used, that's what I want to be carrying....

45 ACP, duh. What else could put a gorilla down?

[hatidua]

When the day comes that another kid falls in with a gorilla and they let it tear the kid apart rather than put the animal down, then we're doomed.

That already happens. You need look no further than certain neighborhoods in certain cities.

[ray1970]

That already happens. You need look no further than certain neighborhoods in certain cities.

There's gorillas in the neighborhoods and cities?

[Gman]

What else could put a gorilla down?

A rifle, apparently.

[fitz19d]

Spoken like someone who hasn't had a kid yet, fitz.

Not that I'm going to disagree with everything you stated, but you really can't blame the kid. Once they are seven or eight years old, maybe. But that young and you have to blame the parents. (Which you did)

Natural selection is awesome for stupid people. Kids that age might seem stupid but you can't really blame them. Their brains aren't very developed at that age and they have no life experience to know any better.

Definitely cool to blame the parents though.

In fact, if I owned the zoo I would probably be filing a civil suit for whatever the value is on one of those gorillas.

Dont get me wrong, I'm mainly blaming parents, though I still /facepalm childs lemming behavior. Hasn't had a kid yet? Sure, but also dont plan on any. But even if it was an older person or another scenario. In general I'd suppose while I'll often go out of my way to help folk, and have empathy for real life/personal experiences with people, despite all that in some aspects I think life is cheap, and have no empathy for people who are mortally stupid or otherwise engage in risky behavior willfully. A child/animal doesn't have the gift of an adult human consciousness. Squander that ability and it's the opposite of BLM folks, SLDM (Stupid lives don't matter)

[Gman]

This bothers me more than the kid in the gorilla enclosure; Chile: Lions shot after man jumps into enclosure, strips

A zoo killed two lions to save a man who jumped into the big cats' enclosure in the Chilean capital.

The man climbed over the fence Saturday and removed his clothes before approaching the lions, according to a statement posted on the Santiago Metropolitan Zoo Facebook page.

He was apparently attempting suicide, and a note was found in his clothes, Chilean media reported.

Zoo staff shot and killed two of the lions with live rounds to protect the man, the zoo's statement said.

"Due to the circumstances and to firstly protect the life of this person, we found ourselves obliged to apply all of our security protocols," the zoo's statement reads.

The two lions, a male and a female, were shot in front of a large crowd of zoo visitors. The male lion was born at the zoo, while the lioness was rescued from a circus, local media reported.

The zoo said it took the "incomprehensible action" of killing two of its three lions, which was "profoundly painful for every single one of us."

[Scanker19]

See my vest. See my vest, made from real gorilla chest...

[copfish]

Let one of the animal activists' labradoodle fall in to the pit and they'll scream someone shoot that beast! As Bongo is snacking away on Doodle...

[roberth]

See my vest. See my vest, made from real gorilla chest...

[rondog]

I gotta wonder what kind of rifle was used, and do zoos normally keep big firepower on hand for emergencies? If ya think about it, there's some bigass and potentially very dangerous critters there, they'd need a serious weapon and skilled shooters to operate it. Maybe even a selection of weapons depending on needs/situations. I could see different weapons needed for a rampaging elephant vs an enraged marauding baboon, for example.

Never thought about zoos needing rifles and marksmen before.....