DC: A two-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital after she fell into the white rhino exhibit at Florida’s Brevard Zoo on Tuesday. Reports have indicated that she was injured, but the nature and extent of her injury has not been released.
The Brevard Zoo is home to a special “rhino encounter” program, during which a zookeeper supervises as families see the animals up close — and even touch them. The little girl and her family were participating in that activity at the time of the incident.
The zoo explained the experience in an email to ABC, noting that the program has been in place since 2009 without incident and saying, “During the encounter, participants and the rhinoceroses are separated by a series of steel poles.” more here
SNIP: A series of steel poles a toddler can slip through, I suppose.
What? No komodo dragon encounter? What a crappy zoo!
Poles are not the problem. Someone should have been holding on to their child.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Another idiot parent holding the facility accountable for her lapse of attention and playing victim.
The only noticeable injury was the mothers eyes that had become swollen with dollar signs.
Hambone,
They still have the plague-infected prairie dog petting experience.
I’m a little confused.
Build requirements now dictate that balusters for a staircase be close enough to prevent a small kitten easy passage.
Is there any end to the cutouts RINOs get?
Somebody got some splanin to do.
I wouldn’t be too worried about the child making contact with the rhino. The problem would be the rhino making contact with the child.
The child (D-FL) was not seriously injured due to the inactivity of the RINOs.
People are to stupid to go to zoo’s these days. Disney humanizing wild animals hasn’t helped
Ahhh…but was it a ‘first contact?’
Whoever built this shouldn’t be allowed to work on the border fence.
@Hambone
We need a lion petting zoo for the libs too.
More evidence that morons are reproducing entirely too much these days. This is the tale of yet another jackass incapable of looking after their kid in a clearly dangerous situation. Hell, I wouldn’t even bring a two year old into a place where they could clearly just walk into a pen filled with rhinos. And what monumental fuckhead designed that enclosure, some Millenial faggot with no kids?
White rhino? Dat be rayyciss!
We had this in Cincinnati. Unsupervised child = 1 less silverback gorilla.
…dicks STILL out for Harambe…
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TCBjfzdf8Kw/maxresdefault.jpg
I don’t think Mitt would of hurt her. Oh it was a real rhino sorry
You must admit that throwing your kid into the rhino pit is a pretty sneaky way to get a refund.
Is the grizzly bear petting area still open to the kiddies?
Call social services! She should have had her child on a leash. LOL
The kid’s a moron.
Its parents are morons.
Apparently the rhinos didn’t notice it being in their pen – or they just had no desire to interact with a moron.
See? The phenomenon (proliferation of morons) is world-wide, not just in France.
izlamo delenda est …
Glad the child lived,,, not so much the parents.
Follow-up
Note to self:
Shooting’ blanks was a blessing not a curse.