February 24th, 2006 @ 10:58 am
shoulda put the kid to sleep
TimesDispatch.com | Park’s 2 bears killed after bite
Both bears, ages 12 and 9, were euthanized because it was not known which one bit the boy, Maymont officials said. The child and at least one parent were apparently at the rear of the 2-acre bear exhibit Saturday when the child climbed a 4-foot wooden fence into a restricted area and approached the 10-foot chain-link fence that surrounds the bears.“The child may have been eating an apple or had apple [scent] on his hands,” said Julia Dixon, spokeswoman for Game and Inland Fisheries. The child put his hand through the fence and was bitten.
No stitches were required for his hand, but they killed both bears because they weren’t sure which one bit the little fucker and there is always a possibility that they had rabies and you can’t test for rabies in a live bear, you have to dissect its brain. So now they killed 2 bears that barely did anything wrong.
The parent was with the child when this happened, they should be sued for at least the cost of putting the bears down, the testing, and what it would cost to replace the bears. Or at least for child endangerment. And the kid should be sterilized for being a moron.
