San Francisco Zoo Fails To Issue Repercussions To Visitors Who Put Animals and Guests At Risk

I have no emotional or mental energy to write a well thought out or organized blog post about what happened at the zoo today saturday march 5th so I made a video as soon as I got to my car.  It's over seventeen minutes long and sprinkled with vulgarity which is the vocabulary I resort to when I'm completely frustrated about a situation.  I don't want to hear anything about it from anybody because these words are not new to people.  If you watch tv,  movies you've heard them before don't act like you're all offended.  This is my opinion my feelings about the situation and it is nobody's business how I react to things or express them.  And regardless of what words are used to describe my frustration it doesn't make the situation any less valid.

View the video here:

https://youtu.be/3SbpetzIBaE

So while I sit here in the dark on my stairs having a cocktail I'm going to dictate some text for those who don't want to watch the video.

That said in short once again there were people not following the rules, and putting the animals health at risk.  Additionally in this situation, also health assaulting me for having the gall to request they follow the rules to keep the animals safe.

There was a series of jerks at snow leopards.  I finally had enough so the next person that walked past two of the at least four signs that indicate this is a mask required area as they are a covid vulnerable species and completely ignored the signage I said something to.

"You need to be wearing a mask in this area, they are a vulnerable species".

Of course I was met with the typical self-entitled jerk response of Do you work here? To which I replied No I don't but I can easily call security or you can just follow the rules that are posted there for a reason. Well jerks will be jerks of course and he said go ahead and call security. In addition to that while I was making the call he kept coming up to me coughing in my face four times.

I called for security when security finally showed up I told him what happened.  And since nothing ever happens two offenders I also requested that they find that he asked whether or not these people are members something else they never do, which I think is important information in the rare case their guilt is taken seriously they should have repercussions against their membership status as well.  He went and talked to the people.  I was told they denied everything. And yes they are members!  Per usual, security said they couldn't do anything because there was no witnesses. Well thankfully the keeper was a witness and so they proceeded to have me tell the story to the manager on duty and the head of security.  Then I said I'll follow up with you on my way out to find out what you did about this situation.

Over the fourteen years that I've been monitoring the zoo this is a common situation where animals are put at risk and the perpetrators allowed to continue on with their day with only a warning or being watched and never approached about the complaint against their behavior. There's never any repercussions. I've also previously reported incidents where I've been sworn at and nothing ever happens. It's outrageous and it should never happen this way. 

I requested these people get ejected and if they are members that their membership somehow is dinged and in jeopardy considering what's happened to me in the past solely based on me having an opinion in a personal blog. 

So when I headed out almost two hours later I remembered that I was going to touch base with them about what they had done about the situation.  As I headed back in to have them call somebody for me to talk to who do I see coming out but these jerks carrying their pizza having a good old time just like nothing ever happened. So obviously nothing did happen.

I was told that they couldn't find them. Which I find completely irresponsible and a huge fail. Not only did I have to tell security to ask if they were members because previous times that was never even asked but evidently they have such a lame protocol that when they approached the people they don't even take down their name if their a member their membership number and their phone number to follow up on the complaint made against them. Had that have been done they would at least know who these people are now they don't even know who they are.  Complete Fail!!!  Unfortunately its nothing new. The same old tiring bullshit.

There are security cameras at the entrance I don't know if they're pointed in both directions but let's see if the zoo thinks to scan video and try to id them considering I gave a full description and time that they left.  

When I relayed the incident to my friend lee who also was a target of zoo director tanya peterson in 2011 and had her membership revoked for reporting visitors over the barrier at bears, she said this disgraceful, but when I told her that they lost them she added oh they sure never lost us all the times they followed us all over the place.  Indeed they didn't.

As I've previously said, I'm in a sad state and I just wanted to go to the zoo and not have to talk to anybody, let alone deal with bullshit.  

Check out the video for more information.

I'll additionally add something else that lee said.  She said the snow leopards better not get sick.  To that I'll add, the zoo better really hope that nothing ever happens to them or to the chimps as I've stated before. It is on them to keep those animals safe and if they can't control the visitors that go by there by having a docent or one of their interpretive guides posted there, especially on weekends, then close those areas.

Here's a pic from yesterday of how close people get to the snow leopards at the open air fencing around the new enclosure.  It's not even six ft and aerosol particles travel twenty-seven ft.

I repeat as I have may times the zoo is in desperate need of new management to put forth more stringent protocols among so many other fails.

I guess once I got to going on this text info. My short notation turned into a longer version but it didn't take long cuz again I don't have the energy to think out anything I'm just winging it with truths.

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