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2004-03-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Raj 2004-03-19 3:14:11 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He said another worked to distract Jabari. Jabari was shot at three times by long rifles purchased by the zoo

They normally use carbines, pistols, or muskets? HUH?

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-19 3:56:13 PM|| 2004-3-19 3:56:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This was a big story on yokel tv. One woman told a reporter that shooting the gorrilla was wrong because "it was just following its natural instinct."
Well, it's our natural instinct to shoot critters that harm children.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-19 4:01:18 PM|| 2004-3-19 4:01:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't believe this attack was committed by a gorilla. Gorillas are peaceful creatures. Jane Goodall sez so! How can a theory be wrong?

This must be lies spread by the Evil Western Media to inflame interspecies passions and hatreds. Gorillas, like Muslims, believe in peace and would never go around biting, killing or blowing stuff up.

Posted by SteveS 2004-3-19 4:28:34 PM|| 2004-3-19 4:28:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 As sad as this whole incident was when we heard about this on the radio at work we all busted out laughing after ten seconds or so. Just the thought of the proverbial 350lb Gorilla. Hope the kid makes it. He could use or thoughts and prayers. Even NMMs

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-3-19 4:42:49 PM|| 2004-3-19 4:42:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Jabari was shot at three times by long rifles purchased by the zoo. Garcia defended the use of firearms. He said there was not enough time to locate tranquilizer guns because authorities feared that visitors were still in the area and because the animal had already attacked once

how in hell they find long guns but cant finding trankwilizer rifle! these yahoos just want to kill the poor animal. they endager the public shoting live ammo in chaos and could kill people as well as poor jabari. and who open his cage! gorilla normaly peaceful creatur and someone must have piss him off. probly kids throwing stuff at him. gorilla also get piss off becuase they want be free and back in the jungle and not lock up. we lock up criminal and not poor animal. how would you like to be lock up in jail for who you were born. that sounds like racist to me. jabari was suffering life and now thanks to jerks he is now dead. a true marter for his cause. we need to abolish the fashist zoo institushun before more tragedy occer but chainey probly wont let that happen. rest in peace jabari and we will alway remeber you smiling.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-3-19 4:54:26 PM|| 2004-3-19 4:54:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "the fashist zoo institushun" , that ones gotta be kept on record,fuckin funny one that.

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-19 5:38:53 PM|| 2004-3-19 5:38:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lawsuit from PETA in 5....4...3...2...

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-3-19 5:55:32 PM|| 2004-3-19 5:55:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 SteveS: I wouldn't lump Jane Goodall in with the more egregious animal rights activists; she's done a lot of work over the years on the topic of chimpanzees going to war against each other (although they have apparently now expanded their activities to flooding and google-bombing rantburg). I'd also like to point out that gorillas in the wild are being hunted into extinction for their meat... if you want to read more about that, I'd suggest http://karlammann.com/. All of that said, if I were in the same situation as the zookeepers, I'd have shot it. On the third hand, I'm slightly bothered by the report that this isn't the first gorilla escape at the zoo. This suggests that they really need to reevaluate their procedures.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-3-19 6:12:28 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-3-19 6:12:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ROFL....Brother Muck4doo Johnson is right! (except about the chainney part)...BWAhahahahahahaha!

Posted by Jen 2004-3-19 8:49:50 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-19 8:49:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Something doesn't fit here. The gorilla was "shot by police", then the story says the gorilla was killed by "long rifles purchased by the zoo". Police usually have their own weapons, and don't use guns supplied by others. I'd like to see some clarification here.

As for there not being tranquilizer guns available, that's quite understandable. It takes time to load a syringe with a tranquilizer. You can't keep a "loaded tranquilizer gun" around, because the stuff decays at room temp. I've also learned from a friend of mine that many companies are buying and storing LOADED FIREARMS around their offices and workspaces, so their people might have a fighting chance against terrorism. I pray the kid recovers ok, but I'm sure he's going to have an aversion to zoos when he gets older.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-19 11:04:34 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-19 11:04:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Jon Shep, some advice to you. When using a urinal after someone like Muck-a-doo, visually check to confirm that the drain under the Smell-Nice mint is not obstructed. Sometimes flow can be blocked by the congealed mass of chicken feathers pasted together. I speculate that this clogging is only caused by the rare naturalist chicken admires because they refuse to use Vaseline and go with mayo instead. Its a tragic mistake and much less comfortable for Foghorn Leghorn's sister.
Also, operate the flush-o-meter with your elbow out of general cleanliness principles. You will still be infected, but most really virulent infections succumb to extreme heat. Nobody wants to have to apply boiling water or a blow torch to the palm of their hand.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-19 11:21:52 PM|| 2004-3-19 11:21:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, the little boy is going to have some pretty complicated trauma reactions from the experience. But, c'mon guys--the gorilla is just an animal. It felt threatened by all of the people (to him they were a bunch of other animals), so it attacked. And even if they've created a habitat that mimics the creature's natural habitat at the Dallas zoo, which is a good thing--it's still TOO SMALL. (Duh.) For the higher-level primates, and many other animals, such as the big cats, living in a zoo is like being in a prison. It's a lot of stress for them. The cruelty of the confinement is instinctually experienced by the animal as a condition of constant threat, and it does things to them. I'm just sorry it happened at all. Personally, I think zoos should display animals that are not as adversely affected by confinement.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-3-19 11:23:42 PM|| 2004-3-19 11:23:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "As for there not being tranquilizer guns available"

Guns were later found in a locket closet next to the baby duck exhibit.

Posted by Brewer 2004-3-20 12:38:00 AM|| 2004-3-20 12:38:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 I live at Gorilla Ground Zero (Dallas). 2 things:
The Zoo was packed today.
Word has it that local children threw things, used pea shooters, shot water pistols, etc. at the poor gorillas all the time and that their taunting of the animals had been quite cruel and relentless.

Posted by Jen 2004-3-20 1:06:48 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-20 1:06:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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