The last set of Parents of the Year let one of their kids get away to topple into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. The first reaction from just about everywhere was the parents were not responsible. It must have been a faulty enclosure, it must have been this, or it must have been that but nowhere was there any personal accountability.
It's my kid who will get croaked so maybe I need to watch the little rotter.
We have a new set and these parents took the title because this kid got eaten down at Disney World in Florida. A new set of Parents of the Year brings new excuses and one of the first was, man, I'm from Nebraska so how should I know about alligators in Florida.
That excuse has some merit since we really don't expect people from Nebraska to know much of anything regarding much of anywhere, do we.
However, if you have any more awareness than the average slab of granite, there are two things likely coming to mind about Florida: ugly t-shirts and alligators.
Disney's disingenuous bullshit about alligators doesn't help since tourists openly feed them at the lakes on Disney's properties while Disney officials maintain they work aggressively to keep the lakes safe.
Well, apparently not, muchachos.
The problem isn't so much Disney's lackadaisical and duplicitous attitude but rather the idea humans can control anything of Nature when it hasn't ever worked any time we have tried. We can live with Nature and sometimes we can even harness it but we can never control it. How can it be a complex thing to understand there will be alligators in a place where alligators normally live.
Here's a Florida airboat captain who has conducted alligator tours for years with nary an incident and he has a more realistic appraisal of the situation. Check out how an alligator can climb over a chain-link fence. There's no way to keep them out. (CNN: Airboat captain: Don't blame Disney for gators)
Regardless of any implicit danger in the lake from the alligators, we don't understand how a two-year-old got so close to the water without a parent immediately available to pull the little tyke back out again. We understand the entertainment at the resort that night was an outdoor movie. Well ...
The lack of culpability burns my ass since Australia has some of the most dangerous beaches in the world. My parents took six kids, all less than twelve, to those beaches and always brought six back. They used a rigorous system for ensuring they knew where all kids were at all times and it looked super militaristic but it also worked.
(Ed: will you endlessly flog that example?)
Yes, in fact, I will. When you know you're going somewhere with visible and also hidden dangers, it's grossly-irresponsible not to prepare and be ready for it.
It's my kid who will get croaked so maybe I need to watch the little rotter.
We have a new set and these parents took the title because this kid got eaten down at Disney World in Florida. A new set of Parents of the Year brings new excuses and one of the first was, man, I'm from Nebraska so how should I know about alligators in Florida.
That excuse has some merit since we really don't expect people from Nebraska to know much of anything regarding much of anywhere, do we.
However, if you have any more awareness than the average slab of granite, there are two things likely coming to mind about Florida: ugly t-shirts and alligators.
Disney's disingenuous bullshit about alligators doesn't help since tourists openly feed them at the lakes on Disney's properties while Disney officials maintain they work aggressively to keep the lakes safe.
Well, apparently not, muchachos.
The problem isn't so much Disney's lackadaisical and duplicitous attitude but rather the idea humans can control anything of Nature when it hasn't ever worked any time we have tried. We can live with Nature and sometimes we can even harness it but we can never control it. How can it be a complex thing to understand there will be alligators in a place where alligators normally live.
Here's a Florida airboat captain who has conducted alligator tours for years with nary an incident and he has a more realistic appraisal of the situation. Check out how an alligator can climb over a chain-link fence. There's no way to keep them out. (CNN: Airboat captain: Don't blame Disney for gators)
Regardless of any implicit danger in the lake from the alligators, we don't understand how a two-year-old got so close to the water without a parent immediately available to pull the little tyke back out again. We understand the entertainment at the resort that night was an outdoor movie. Well ...
The lack of culpability burns my ass since Australia has some of the most dangerous beaches in the world. My parents took six kids, all less than twelve, to those beaches and always brought six back. They used a rigorous system for ensuring they knew where all kids were at all times and it looked super militaristic but it also worked.
(Ed: will you endlessly flog that example?)
Yes, in fact, I will. When you know you're going somewhere with visible and also hidden dangers, it's grossly-irresponsible not to prepare and be ready for it.
10 comments:
I dont see how a parent could allow a child to drink rat poison. Or allow thier children to break glass so another walks through it. Or leaves a pot of tea on a table allowing a toddler to cause 2nd and 3rd degree burns to its arm.
Or be hit by a car not once but twice.
I could gone on. As this is just one families gross irresponsibilities.
The alligator case is a little less defensible as I would never allow my toddler to wade in any Florida inland waters. But I did take them into the everglades.
No matter how vigilant a parent is they can not prevent every bad situation.
I am not defending these parents because I dont know who was doing what.
You want parents of the year those are the ones who forget the kid in the car in the summer to die.
Fair enough as my good example isn't all peaches but there's no need to argue your overall point. I doubt there's disagreement there's a whole lot less acceptance of personal responsibility for things than there needs to be.
I dont disagree that both sets or parents could be culpable. I dont know. I know I would have never been in either situation.
But they may been keeping an eye on the kids instead of watching the kids to quote a Gallagher skit
Whoa, it just occurred to me maybe a lawyer has told them not to admit any responsibility so they can do better in a lawsuit. That seems medium plausible.
I know if I my own kid got munched in any kind of way I would be flogging myself and I suspect most people will. That makes me think more a lawyer tells them to restrict what they say. Unknown if I write an excuse for them but maybe credible.
I would agree someone has told them not to accept responsibility. Somewhere down the road lawsuits will fly.
I think both sets of parents dropped the ball but all parents do from time to time luckily most of those are just scares.
Such a shame the stink lawyers bring to things
The Cincinnati police, prosecutor and zoo have completed their investigation. No charges will be brought against the mother. It was found she simply turned her back for a second to care for another child. Her little boy was quickly and easily able to get under the railing at the gorilla exhibit. The zoo did not admit guilt. It did install a barrier that would not allow a child to easily crawl under or over before reopening the gorilla exhibit. The mother has indicated at this time she will not sue the zoo.
Jack Hanna, director of the Columbus Zoo was quick to defend the Cincinnati Zoo. The Columbus Zoo has a similar barrier to its gorilla (and other exhibits) that is now obviously not child proof. Hopefully, they and other zoos will learn from the Cincinnati zoo and install barriers that a small child can't easily get past. Fortunately, the child was not severely injured or killed. Fortunately, it was a responsible investigation that determined the facts in this case, not social media or pundits. Unfortunately, a magnificent animal had to die. Hopefully, this will spark added safety measures at zoos and caution in parents.
All of that is true. But it will not prevent the lawsuits. As all know lawsuits have nothing to do with truth.
OJ was innocent in criminal trial but guilty in the civil trial
Excellent to hear it works out in good ways all around but such a regret about the gorilla. I know they had to shoot him but I really don't think it was his intention to hurt the kid. That could have come from getting him panicked so no choice but such a damn shame.
Truth has become whatever you can get a jury to believe and that has come to one outrage after another. Relying on the professional ethics of lawyers is hopeless but a juried trial is one of the major achievements of the modern age so what a mess.
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