Re: So a situation that is "fun" for a bear but leaves a person dead is better than both surviving?
Lotesse Send a noteboard - 27/11/2009 07:55:02 PM
I just read another article about some idiot climbing into a bear exhibit and, unsurprisingly, getting mauled. And of course, it's the bear that gets shot and then gets to spend weeks under critical care because the police used freaking fragmentation bullets (they shatter. it's not fun for the bear).
How in the world are people so stupid as to ignore huge fences and the fact that, oh, there's a big huge toothy predator behind them?? Are these people we really want to bother rescuing in the first place?
Furthermore, why the hell are the police shooting fragmentation bullets at bears??? And where are the gorram zoo vets with their tranq guns? This is half the reason zoos HAVE tranq guns!
There is a seriously lack of justice when some idiot gets himself mauled and goes home with some stitches, and the poor animal is struggling in critical care because the vets can't safely operate due to him being full of bullet fragments.
The important issue is how fast they can stop him from attacking the person. Your assertion carries exactly zero difference from someone who complains about rescue efforts damaging a building or a car. Human life takes precedence over property. And that is what any zoo animal is. How in the world are people so stupid as to ignore huge fences and the fact that, oh, there's a big huge toothy predator behind them?? Are these people we really want to bother rescuing in the first place?
Furthermore, why the hell are the police shooting fragmentation bullets at bears??? And where are the gorram zoo vets with their tranq guns? This is half the reason zoos HAVE tranq guns!
There is a seriously lack of justice when some idiot gets himself mauled and goes home with some stitches, and the poor animal is struggling in critical care because the vets can't safely operate due to him being full of bullet fragments.
I wouldn't say animals are anyone's property.
Idiots at Zoos make me feel bad for the animals.
- 27/11/2009 06:36:01 PM
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By fragmentation bullets do you mean hollow points?
- 27/11/2009 06:47:59 PM
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Doubt it. Frangible ammunition shatters to spread out. Hollow point expands to make 1 big hole
- 27/11/2009 07:56:46 PM
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Re: Doubt it. Frangible ammunition shatters to spread out. Hollow point expands to make 1 big hole
- 27/11/2009 08:26:24 PM
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i know little to nothing about ammunition, but that does not make me a moron.
- 27/11/2009 09:46:44 PM
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i'm not sure, fragmentation bullets is the term the article used.
- 27/11/2009 09:56:50 PM
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Re: i'm not sure, fragmentation bullets is the term the article used.
- 28/11/2009 04:32:37 PM
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What are you saying?
- 27/11/2009 07:16:52 PM
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I think it's pretty obvious
- 27/11/2009 08:06:48 PM
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out of curiousity
- 28/11/2009 02:22:32 AM
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So a situation that is "fun" for a bear but leaves a person dead is better than both surviving?
- 27/11/2009 07:48:00 PM
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Re: So a situation that is "fun" for a bear but leaves a person dead is better than both surviving?
- 27/11/2009 07:55:02 PM
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It would have been a real shame if the policeman had "missed" once. 
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- 28/11/2009 04:20:28 AM
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- 28/11/2009 04:20:28 AM
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