(June 1, 2016 at 1:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: A small child managed to bypass all measures and get in.
This should not have been possible.
Kids are dicks and will do this sort of thing now and then. The fact the no one had done it before is not an excuse to carry out simple safety precautions.
Now if a fully fit 20 year old had managed to get in I would agree that it is possible for an adult to circumvent reasonably fool proof systems, but a toddler!
Exactly. This isn't like the Little Rock Zoo incident, where the kid got in directly by result of the actions of the parents. This was a four year old who escaped from his mother and managed to get inside without the help of anyone else. I don't think it'd be fair to blame anyone for this happening--sometimes there's no blame to be had. The child wasn't old enough to understand it was dangerous, the mom lost sight of her child for maybe a minute, Harambe didn't know what the child was or how to react to it, and the zoo had no reason to think that their enclosure wasn't good enough (Now they do) and had to make a tough decision on how best to save the child.
They now have good reason to believe that it's not good enough. Security measures are always good enough, until they aren't.
