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!!!"
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