If a single person had died or was even badly injured by these animals because the police hesitated to kill them, the police would have been destroyed in the court of public opinion. I wish they could have figured out a way to capture the animals, but that is beyond what most municipalities are willing to PAY for the standard operating capabilities of the police. Given the tight money these days, no can expect the cops to invest a large chunk of their budget into tiger management unless they are explicitly told but the public authorities. Given what they did, it's just a different group of people yelling at them.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Keith Whaley <[email protected]> wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> People are allowed to make bad decisions, that's what being free is all >> about. Hopefully they'll make more good decisions than bad. In this case >> the authorities seem to have been a bit trigger happy and the owner of >> the animals seems to have been more than a little irresponsible. > > The keeper of that wild animal compound just up and DIED, nobody knows why. > The gate was found open. Why would a keeper just open the gates and let his > animals out? > Makes no sense except that at least one other party was involved and it > seems to have been a badly misguided attempt to bring attention to the > animals' plight. They didn't let themselves out. > > The owner had shown no evidence of malfeasance prior to this, so how can HE > be called irresponsible? > > The authorities were trigger happy? They had a bunch of wild animals running > loose, in a heavily populated area with a lot of school children around. > They had no way of knowing whether this menangerie was truly dangerous or > not, but...they did the right thing. > > Had anyone been killed or maimed because the 'authorities' didn't take fast > enough action, the hubbub would have been loud and clear. "You are NOT doing > your job!!!" > > You might want to rethink your opinion before throwing blame about. > > keith whaley > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
