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Originally Posted by AGDee
While I think they were idiots for agitating a tiger, I still think that it's the zoo's responsibility to ensure that the tiger can't get out, no matter how agitated it is.
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I agree. I also stand by what I said earlier: that most of what people do at the zoo could be seen as "taunting" or "agitating" according to what these kids said they did. Most kids I see at the zoo are waving at animals or shouting out things like, "HI TIGER!" - sometimes at the encouragement of their parents. People don't think of it as taunting then, so why is it suddenly bad now? The zoo has a responsibility to reasonably protect people on its property from what people would consider harmful. And I think it goes without saying that people assume a zoo has taken the steps necessary to keep its dangerous animals away from the visitors; if they didn't think so, they wouldn't go!
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