Quote Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
OK....so your defending cruelty to animals, and saying its OK for some stupid kids to provoke wild animals, and torment them, and your also saying that the stoopid kids bear no responsibility for their actions?????

Thats pretty ignorant.
Please show me where I defended cruelty to animals?

Show me where I said it's ok for stupid kids to provoke a wild animal?

It's ignorant to place words in people's mouth and then convince yourself they really said them.

What I said was that it is the Zoo's responsibility to ensure that everyone inside the Zoo remains safe. Even if someone antagonizes an animal the Zoo needs to be confident that no one will get hurt.

Kids are going to do stupid things, that is just what kids do. If the Zoo can't take this into consideration when designing their cages and exhibits for safety then that Zoo needs to be shut down.

Secondly you are taking this to extreme... Human life/Safety vs the life of an animal.

You should read and re-read posts before you start name calling because everything you accused me of saying... I did not say.

FWIW, even if the fence had been at the suggested height, when the cat got mad enough, it was gonna get out anyway.
Really? Where is your scientific fact to back this? I suppose that everyone who has researched how tall a tiger exhibit needs to be is wrong and you're right?

Apparently Tigers are like the incredible Hulk and gain super powers when they get pissy?

I don't mean to sound like I'm demeaning you but do you read what you post before you type them? It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that the height of an enclosure does not matter when it comes to securing an animal that can jump signifigant heights.

So if the enclosure was 50ft high you think the Tiger would still some how magically leap over it?

You can't protect people against their own stupidity.
You're right. All you can do is smack them down when they call you ignorant and completely misread your post.

As you can tell your arrogance and eagerness to start flinging mud is not appreciated. In my original post replying to you I never once condescended you and even agreed that kids that would provoke an animal are pretty stupid.

Did I do something to piss you off?