Does a pre-school child have an natural fear of large mammals? Maybe, but I sure didn't and apparently I'm not the only one.
Does an adult parent have an innate sense of caution when it concerns large animals and small children?
Not all the time.
I don't have kids, so maybe I'm wrong, but would a responsible parent scale a fence -with their four-year-old child in tow- so the kid could get closer to the bears ?
Or was this parent just not paying attention and simply didn't notice that Junior was sticking his arm into a bear's mouth?
The local reports on this aren't clear, but in either case shouldn't they be flogging the parent instead of killing the bears?- which, I assure you, did not attack the child.
Note that the 'bite' didn't even require stiches, but they went ahead and snuffed the poor bears anyway. So much for one of our community's favorite all-ages attraction.
The bears turned out to be rabies-free.
I don't know if you've ever been mauled by a pissed off bear or not , but if you have, you'd know damn well that it involves stitches- lots and lots of stiches- so one would think that even a small bear would be capable of doing some serious damage to a toddler, especially if it was provoked- or had rabies. Overall, it's pretty unusual in today's modern world to get attacked by bears at all, but that seems to be changing.
More on that later.
If there is a 'later'.
2 comments:
A lot of the comments seem to think the animals were killed because they had bit the boy rather than for the rabies testing.
I think they should have forced the boy to have the prophylactic rabies series rather than kill the bears. They could have told the boy with each shot "this is your mommy's fault." or "we have to hurt you because your mommy is stupid." haha. omg did i say that?! =P
They should have realized that if the bear was rabid it would've torn the kid's arm off, making the whole testing/treatment question moot.
The bear's teeth probably grazed the kid's skin a little during a 'lick & sniff'- I really doubt it was any kind of 'attack' at all.
Mankind's all-time greatest problem: How to keep stupid people from breeding?
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