Today I woke up intending to move forward with finishing those blog posts in draft and a couple others. I never make my own deadlines, some years old. My serious deadline for wrapping up this blog to date was end of year. Yesterday I pushed it to next weekend. Good Grief, the weight is heavy.
I opened the computer with great intent, but after a morning of reading Twitter about the Naples Zoo Tiger Event, I still couldn't shake it. Eko being contained and the fence between them is everything in my opinion. In one of my replies to a Tweet, I started typing #JusticeForEko and it had already been in use. Searching for the Tweets associated with it, I read more of the same that I had been, but almost exclusivley here, calling for the perpetrator River Rosenquist to be "charged".
In my experience with incidents at the San Francisco Zoo, and from other instances I've read about through the years at other Zoos, that never seems happen. So it's something I have come to not entertain as reality.
My way of thinking is very Black and White. I don't think within any middle lines. There's right and wrong, good and bad, responsible and irresponsible. So way back in 2007, when the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Dept and San Francisco Zoological Society, so-called managing entities of the SFZoo, absorbed all responsibility for our own Tiger event, I was outraged. Regardless of Human vs Animal, Tatiana would not have lost her life if she had not been provoked out of her enclosure. Now maybe there is some loophole of bullshit, because in her case she was lose, but still, it was clear those three delinquents had caused this, and yet there were no repercussions. No examples set. Instead with one dead, his family and the remaining two walked away with a 900k settlement. Within a very short time, the two brothers went on spree, robbing multiple Target stores and ending up in/out of jail over the next few years. Probably using their settlement money to hire lawyers for that. Disgusting. Since everyone knew they were responsible and the evidence of the (Zoo) investigation was sealed for five years, there should have been a hold on their settlement for that long, only then releasing it to them if they had not had any trouble with the law during that time. Yes, I'm evidentially a dreamer.
In 2009 a man entered the Grizzly Bear enclosure. Even though it got as far as the emergency response team pointing rifles at our girls heads, no legal action was taken against the guy. There have been others, most recently with the Breaking and Entering, Trespassing and Kidnapping of Maki the Lemur. No charges against the perpetrator stuck. He was told by the judge not to go to the Zoo. Are you Fking kidding me. So, you see, I have no faith that there will be Justice for Eko.
It seems that Zoos, and in the Maki case, Judges, cower behind the Human priority factor. It's disturbing, and sets no example to deter future incidents. I've been waiting fourteen years for someone to stand-up for the Animals in captivity who are tormented by human trash. Many years ago, when we received a new male Amur Tiger, he was napping peacefully in the moat of his home. A pair of Stroller Moms, most likely even Members, threw rocks at him to get him to wake-up and entertain them. Security only told them not to. That's how it is at SFZoo. It's happened too many times that I know of. Ask people not to assault our Animals, and let them continue on with their day. NO! They should have been escorted out. Asked if Members and Membership revoked. Shit, I get my membership revoked for writing this blog, but assaulting an Animal you get nothing? It's insane. These trash should have been made an example. They should have been arrested, and this should have been made a media event. It was the perfect example to stand-up and say, do not come to the San Francisco Zoo and misbehave. The reason it was perfect is because it was an Amur Tiger, just like Tatiana. That five year mark had come up when finally the investigation records were released, making public what we all knew, Tatiana was taunted. I'm still waiting for an example to be made of someone.
When will someone, in some Zoo stand-up for the Animals in their care?
The last thing I read last night was an article on the Daily Mail. It contained two quotes from the Naples Zoo President/Director Jack Mulvena. As you can see by my adds to the screencaps, that I had sent a few friends, my reaction was and remains, WTF?
So, the Naples Zoo President/Director in my opinion is spineless. This guy should have not made any comment on the recovery of the "trashman" as he's being called. The only thing he should have done was talk about how this behavior is not ok. Expand on all the scenarios and warnings to the self-entitled, and creating awareness for the empty headed.
Additionally, I'm so sick of hearing self-entitled people being referred to as stupid, idiots, etc. They are not. They are self important, do whatever the fck they want jerks. The other category is those with sinister intent. The evil doers, like the Fker who Kidnapped poor Maki. Why can't people just be called what they are? Stop referring to Aholes as idiots. Good Grief, am I the only one who is frustrated and pissed enough to speak with the vocabulary of a Sailor? I just can't take it. Sorry I'm just so disgusted by Humans, at my old age, vulgarity is pretty much all I have.
Anyway, I hope someone seeks Justice for Eko. I also hope the Naples Zoo and other Zoos will rethink their after hours protocols, and have someone on Staff, Security or other, that can make non-lethal decisions, and have those methods in place and at the ready, especially for Animals that are contained, like Eko was. I hope they all work with their local Authorities, and it is clear that only authorized Staff can call for a Shoot Order. Clearly none of that was in place at Naples Zoo. It is my opinion that the Collier County Sheriff's Office made the wrong call in shooting Eko, at the urging of the jerk who put himself and more important that poor Tiger in that situation.
Like with those who caused Tatiana's death, I hope that he who caused Eko's murder, will be haunted by nightmares every night of his life, and that Eko is there to meet him on the otherside when his time comes. Since the trashman survived, it's all we can hope for in the name of Justice.
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