Harambe | King Kong Fury

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Well, I have some expertise in this arena and by using a little bit of common sense (in today’s society common sense is an uncommon commodity) we can go through this scenario and would have probably had a more favorable outcome. Let’s review the case, we have Harambe a 450-500 pound 17 year old male silverback gorilla. For the sake of disclosure a fully mature male gorilla has the strength of 7-10 strong men. Certainly a formidable foe to say the least, so caution is the operative word in this case.My first order of business, is to address the Zoo, certainly an enclosure that a 4 year old child can scale and enter into a cage with a highly dangerous animal is by no means adequate. Get with your structural engineer and make sure those pens can’t be breached without considerable effort even for an adult let alone a child!!! Next let’s talk about the parents, I understand the Dad was not present so he is out of the picture but the mother was there and is directly responsible for the whereabouts of her offspring, I fully realize children can sneak away without your knowledge but it seems everybody is always distracted and I would bet money she was on her cell phone and not paying attention, if that is true she has some culpability for the death of this magnificent animal. If investigation proves she was a dutiful parent, case is closed. Now how do we handle this quite agitated super strong animal that has a 4 year old child in his hands and is dragging him around like a rag-doll (yes I saw the youtube video, would that scare the holy-hell out of you if you were the parent?). Anybody with any brains could see that gorilla could kill that child in a millisecond if he wanted or by accident (either way the child would be dead). How do we control this situation and possibly resolve it without loss of life. It may not be possible. I think the practical approach would be for the Zoo director to immediately evacuate the gorilla facility with a perimeter of at least 300 yards call 1-2 of the primate handlers that are intimately familiar with Harambe and place them close to him so they can soothe and console him down, get him out of his scared and agitated state. Possibly entice him with a favorite toy or food and in the meantime snipers are watching through their scopes and if Harambe shows any aggression or makes a sudden move he would have to be dispatched with a head shot. That is worst case scenario, at least in this scenario it is possible to rescue the child and save a majestic animal!! The idiots that have been saying they would have shot him with a tranquilizer dart do not know what they are talking about, that dart takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes to work and severely agitates the animal, in the meantime he would probably kill the child by accident or on purpose!! That is a NO-GO.

I am truly sorry Harambe had to die in this circumstance from no real fault of his own but I am very happy the child escaped harm. I am sadder that this story eclipsed the Memorial Day holiday and the reason we are all still living in the greatest country in the world is because of those fallen soldiers.

Pay your respects to those soldiers both past and present at every opportunity!!