Darts take a few minutes to work, and can cause a few moments of panic: enough for all sorts to happen. It was an awful event, but they had to put the human first.
HUMANS are the greatest threat to all animal species, period. The zoo incident was tragic, because of human stupidity, and poor parenting, but the toon misses a serious point folks aren’t aware of.
I’ve darted many bears as part of “removal” or study, and the first thing animals do is freak and panic in 99% of cases, darts smart! The keepers knew that in addition to the time to take effect factor, darting the gorilla that was already displaying potentially hazardous stress as a result of all those humans screaming and yelling, the idiot mother’s kid was potentially in real danger of being accidentally killed by the upset animal.
The zoo has upgraded “security”, but as with the White House fence, some moron will soon try to evade the measures just to prove it can be done.
A difficult decision indeed. What irks me is that some animal activists openly said that the kid should have died and the gorilla should have been allowed to live.
You know, because of Natural Selection™ and Survival of the Fittest™…
YokohamaMama almost 8 years ago
I’ve been wondering why the zoo officials didn’t use a dart gun last week. I’m sure this wouldn’t have happened.
andrew5 almost 8 years ago
Darts take a few minutes to work, and can cause a few moments of panic: enough for all sorts to happen. It was an awful event, but they had to put the human first.
kejohns Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Not funny. At best lame, at worst….
katy Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Worst comic ever!
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
way too soon for this one
MeGoNow Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I still suspect the zoo sniper was just a bad shot.
CeeJay almost 8 years ago
No matter what the decision,somebody would’ve been angry. Too soon for this strip? It’s never too soon!
Dan Collins creator almost 8 years ago
No animals or children were harmed during the creation of this comic strip.
DebUSNRet Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Dang!
dsom8 almost 8 years ago
Doesn’t look good on screen.
mountainclimber almost 8 years ago
Why did they have to put the human first?
aerilim almost 8 years ago
Poor ol’ Charlie Brown….
Jackie Vaughan almost 8 years ago
This is tacky and tasteless. An innocent gorilla was slaughtered because a mother couldn’t/wouldn’t control her child.
Dtroutma almost 8 years ago
HUMANS are the greatest threat to all animal species, period. The zoo incident was tragic, because of human stupidity, and poor parenting, but the toon misses a serious point folks aren’t aware of.
I’ve darted many bears as part of “removal” or study, and the first thing animals do is freak and panic in 99% of cases, darts smart! The keepers knew that in addition to the time to take effect factor, darting the gorilla that was already displaying potentially hazardous stress as a result of all those humans screaming and yelling, the idiot mother’s kid was potentially in real danger of being accidentally killed by the upset animal.
The zoo has upgraded “security”, but as with the White House fence, some moron will soon try to evade the measures just to prove it can be done.
i_am_the_jam almost 8 years ago
A difficult decision indeed. What irks me is that some animal activists openly said that the kid should have died and the gorilla should have been allowed to live.
You know, because of Natural Selection™ and Survival of the Fittest™…
Dan Collins creator almost 8 years ago
Sorry, those aren’t qualities I generally consider when I draw comics.
garysnorton almost 8 years ago
Sick!
bubujin_2 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Very Mad Magazine-esque! Loved it! And using a Charlie Brown-like child figure was an especially good and inspired touch.
Kirk Barnes Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Not to hammer on the zoo folks, because I think they did the right thing, but the little tickturd should have been this years Darwin Award winner.