[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
I would have gone in without hesitation! No macho shit’ gunza blazin type thing but straight in to sheild my kid and throw him to safety while I took my chances…
Just so you know the 2-year-old boy who fell into the exhibit was killed by the animals, not the fall.
The boy’s mother had picked him up and put him on top of a railing at the edge of a viewing deck late Sunday morning when he lost his balance and fell, said Barbara Baker, CEO and president of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium. There was a safety net below the railing, but it failed to catch him and the boy dropped more than 10 feet into the enclosure, she said.
“The child was so small that he bounced. He bounced twice and then he bounced into the exhibit,” said Baker, tearing up at a news conference Monday afternoon.
The animals attacked the child so violently and quickly that by the time a veterinarian and other zoo staffers arrived seconds later, they determined it would have been futile to try rescuing the boy, she said.
Baker said she had been informed by the Allegheny County medical examiner that an autopsy determined the boy survived the plunge. The medical examiner’s office has not yet publicly confirmed its findings or released the boy’s name.
I hate these fuckin stories, totally does my head in. [/quote]
I agree. As parents, we automatically see our own children in their place.
I frequent another internet forum, and a woman on there knows the child and parents. She’s a mess too.
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When I opened this thread I was thinking that this was actually a hero story and that someone had jumped in and saved the child but sadly this didnt happen.
I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old and visualising the scene as described in the reports made me feel sick with disbelief. If I knew the parents and child I would honestly be destroyed…
Looking at the news footage there were plenty of sticks and logs lying around to fend the dogs off with! Apparently 7 of the dogs ran away when shouted at by the caretakers, then 3 were left. 2 dogs then took off and 1 mean bastard stayed only to be killed.
I honestly feel like I shouldnt judge but I cant believe the mother didnt jump in? This based not on some rational thought process on the part of the mother but simply an instinctual reaction to just jump the fuck in!. I would have been in before my child hit the ground carefree of what was waiting for me below. Only a parent can really understand this.
Who knows anyway? Its a bloody awful story that I wish I hadnt read! Fuck me my head is wrecked! God help the parents of that poor child.
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It’s not always certain what freezes people from reacting, and oftentimes denial blinds us from reality and the gravity of a situation, so I don’t know if I’d blame her for not jumping in.
However, I blame her for putting her boy up on that railing to begin with.
I, too, have been a bit emotionally beat-up over this story for the past few days.