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Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 8:06 am**

A field trip for Kindergartners and First-graders turns tragic:

http://www.kansas.com/2011/05/06/183869 ... t-zoo.html

Lots of background on this incident. None of our grandkids were involved because we were with the Kindergarten classes, each adult had four kids to supervise. This boy had wandered away from his group unnoticed and the parents instead of looking for him got on the tram and hoped they might find him as they took the tour of the zoo. Lots of different angles on this story, but we will see what happens.

As of today, the Leopard is not going to be destroyed, after all he is a wild animal and the child climbed the fence and then got too close to the leopard enclosure.

The child is doing fine, hospital upgraded him from critical to serious to good condition. Let's hope that everyone involved learned their lesson.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 8:19 am**

And, of course, here is the Fox News version of what happened.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/06/ch ... latestnews

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 11:56 am**

I'm sorry, but 7 years old is old enough to know that you don't go within arm's reach of a wild animal.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 12:01 pm**

Disneyphile wrote:I'm sorry, but 7 years old is old enough to know that you don't go within arm's reach of a wild animal.

Well, if he didn't, I'm sure he knows by now. I'm glad the animal wasn't put down, which seems to be the standard operating procedure for these kind of things. It technically didn't do anything wrong.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 1:15 pm**

dvdjunkie wrote:
This boy had wandered away from his group unnoticed and the parents instead of looking for him got on the tram and hoped they might find him as they took the tour of the zoo.

WHAT?!?! Who WOULD just let their kid just wander off like that and be like, "Whatever. We'll eventually find him"?!?! They BETTER get arrested!

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 2:43 pm**

KubrickFan wrote: I'm glad the animal wasn't put down, which seems to be the standard operating procedure for these kind of things. It technically didn't do anything wrong.

Yeah I hate it when that happen. goddamn humans. The one who should be put down are the dumbass people who think they're hot shit and won't get hurt.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 3:23 pm**

Some people just don't understand the word "wild" in the case of Wild Animals. That's what zoo's are full of is wild and endangered animals. This leopard is only four years old and weighs about 77 pounds. All she was doing was defending her residence.

I just heard from a friend that the parents of the boy want to sue the zoo for not being able to "control" their animals. Now this is really a big joke. I hope they don't try something stupid like that. After all they were the one's who lost track of their son. And then failed to do a genuine search for him.

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 4:16 pm**

Yeah, my opinion on that is, “Why didn’t they control their animal?”

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 5:45 pm**

I hate to do this again, but...

Why is this news?

(Hey, at least this time I'm genuinely intrigued to know the answer.)

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 8:30 pm**

Poor boy! If he becomes a father in adulthood, I hope he's better at parenting than his mom and dad.

Nia looks so beautiful. I'm glad she wasn't euthanized for being defensive.

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2011 2:44 am**

Well, this is an interesting story. Glad everything is alright.

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2011 8:08 am**

Wow, that's a pretty unfortunate story. I do feel sorry for the kid, but the people in charge should have paid more attention to the safety of the kids that they were supposed to look out for. I'm glad they won't kill the leopard, though. That would've been really sad. It was just doing what its natural instincts are.

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2011 8:17 am**

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2011 10:14 am**

at 7 yrs old, you should be smart and well aware enough to know not to climb into the enclosure or get near a f*cking wild cat that can rip the shit out of you.

I have no sympathy for the stupid kid.

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2011 10:23 am**

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2011 10:48 pm**

I have sympathy for every child raised by stupid parents.

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2011 2:00 am**

Bad kitty!

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2011 8:37 am**

Semaj wrote:Bad kitty!

no not bad kitty...its More like Poor Judgement of 7 Year Old Child

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2011 1:59 pm**

Semaj wrote:Bad kitty!

Bad parents!

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2011 4:01 pm**

It was reported last night that the boy was released from the hospital to the custody of his parents. They published a letter in the newspaper asking that they be not disturbed during this time and are considering home schooling for the rest of the school year (11 days plus a 1/2 day).

Mmmmmmmmmm.......................okay!!

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