From: Keith Whaley
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?
The owner didn't just up and die for no known reason, he opened the
gates to free the animals and then committed suicide; shot himself in
the head.
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?
He had been in prison on weapons charges - possessions of unlicensed
machine guns - and was just released in September. He apparently had one
or more employees who cared for the animals while he was incarcerated.
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.
I don't have to like the outcome to understand why the authorities felt
they had no other option.
But, it's not unfair to question whether the authorities even bothered
to look very hard to see if there might be other workable alternatives
to slaughter. There's certainly little indication of such in any of the
news reports I've seen.
And, it's clear the owner intentionally set the animals free hoping they
would rampage across the area and attack local residents before being
killed.
The owner wasn't just irresponsible, he was a homicidal sociopath!
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