When Tigers Attack!

Those who know me know that I am very much anti-zoo.  Im not some extremist animal rights activist (I think PETA is a bunch of idiots) but I still think caging up animals so people can go “oooooohhhhh, aaaahhhhhh” is just plain evil.  Seriously, if I want to see a damn elephant I will rent a damn Discovey Channel video or go to Angola myself.  Some say that zoos play a vital role in protecting animals from threats such as poaching.  Hogwash, humans are killed every day but you dont see us in cages “for our protection.”  Stop the poaching and you will stop the dying.  Some say that zoos are vital to protect animals from extinction due to loss of habitat.  Well this may be true but is the answer really to put Zebras in cages?  There are to damn many humans on this planet as it is.  We really need to stop having babies.  The BBC did a study wherein they estimated that the earth could only sustain 1 billion persons indefinately.  Us stupid humans are so damn worried about carrying on our family line.  What the fuck difference does it make?  This planet has a finite amout of resources and cannot sustain our level of development forever.  Seriously, either we need to get it in our heads that 3.2 children are to much or some well minded individual needs to put infertility drugs in the water supply.  (Especially here in Utah…..)  Stop the human encroachment into habitat and you will stop the extinction of animals. 

Ok, now on to more specific matters.  I have to admit,  I am no expert on the events at the San Francisco Zoo this week.  However, I will speak from what I do know.  First of all, the animal was responsible for a mauling of a zookeeper only last year.  I think that proves that the animal is not fit for living in a human environment.  Had it been me, I would have sent the Tiger back to Siberia.  However, it was not me and the Tiger remained to attack again.  I hear that the teenager who was killed had been taunting the animal and maybe even stuck his arm or leg into the cage.  WTF?  Aside from the fact that only an idiot would put his leg into a Tiger cage, the idiots father was on Fox News today.  He had the audacity to say that he blamed the Tiger.  He said that even if his son had been throwing objects at the Tiger, the animal should not have attacked…… WTF?  I would like to throw this piece of shit into a cage and have people oogle at him all day and taunt him by sticking things into the cage.  Seriously, what a nutjob.