SC causes death of entire family of Meerkats

[PuckishOne]

Ranty McRanterson rides again!

That woman isn't an "overprotective mother," she's a idiot for not watching her child, who has now caused the unnecessary death of several animals, as well as deprived other, better-behaved humans the opportunity to see these animals (trips to the zoo being much cheaper than flights to Africa).

The zoo's barriers "gave her pause"? Well, clearly not enough pause to get off her fat fecking arse and, you know, SUPERVISE HER CHILD!!! What if Junior had the urge to, say, pay a visit to the Bengal tiger exhibit instead?

Selfish, stupid, clueless woman.

*deep breath*

We now return you to our regularly scheduled Puck, who was having an I-hate-people day already.

[kerrisan]

"The meerkats — two adults and their three babies born in spring — were vaccinated for rabies, but state health protocol required that they be killed and tested because the girl's parents didn't want her to undergo a series of six painful rabies shots."

Graaah, how selfish can people be???

I fear for the wellbeing of that child when she grows up. She might be one of those people so sheltered from the world that she won't know how to put gas in her car . . . if her parents let her drive.

[tonydanza]

Damn, and those laws are meant to defend the innocent...... not the stupid.

[Banrion]

This is completely unacceptable. Where is the mother's responsibility to watch her kid?? I think the kid and the mother should have been euthanized not those poor animals who were probably terrified out of their mind, and only trying to defend the 3 babies that were there.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Go here to see what I mean

But in a nutshell of parental unresponsibility, a 9 year old child bypassed several barriers, leaned her hand down a 4 foot high plexiglass wall really far (they only stand a foot tall and a 9 year olds arm isn't that long) to bother the critters.

They bit her and since her mother doesn't want the child to have the rabies shot (claiming the pain would be too much, although it's now a few shots in the arm as opposed to several in the stomach) and since state law states if you don't want the shot, the animal must be destroyed and tested.

Since there is no way to know which one of the family bit the girl...they ALL had to die.

Way to go Mom! Nice way to ruin the exibit for everyone else's kid who wants to see 'Timone'

If that doesn't scale the hights of suck, then I don't know what.

Mongo