I get it. You're all sick and tired of hearing about Harambe and the Cincinnati zoo. Seemingly everyone has an opinion about the topic and as expected the story has reached nearly every news outlet across the nation. I figured I would throw in my two cents worth as well. Everyone else is anyway.
As a Cincinnati native I have been to the zoo probably at least 20 times and I can picture the exact exhibit in my head because coincidentally it's my favorite. For the remainder of this article let's just ignore the whole issue of zoos and caging in animals for entertainment because let's face it, if I charged people to sit outside your house and watch you every day through your windows you would probably say that's weird and an invasion of privacy.
First let's talk about the parents of this child. For those who haven't seen the exhibit in person it's pretty much the gorillas then a giant trench and a steep, flat rock wall with some plants and a small bar keeping the people from entering. What I'm saying is, I could go to the zoo right now and jump over the wall down into the water that the little boy fell into. The safety with this exhibit is more so what's keeping the gorillas from the people and not so much what's keeping the people from the gorillas. This is where people can argue that the mom should have been paying more attention to her child and while I agree, one time my brother go lost in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum so I get it, children are sneaky and crazy and sometimes they get lost. If for some reason that was your child that snuck away and fell into a gorilla exhibit I can almost guarantee you would beg the zoo keepers to do anything to get your child back. Most of us know absolutely nothing about that family except for what we hear in the news. So please, stop acting like monkeys and get off this lady's back about it. Too soon?
The point is that no matter what everyone gripes about, we can't change the fact that what happened is over.
We can't get Harambe back. We can only hope that people take caution when they go to the zoo or theme parks or pay for any other sort of entertainment with some kind of inherent danger. So stop talking about it. Leave the Cincinnati zoo alone. Leave the family alone. Worry about the bigger issues in this country like who is going to run it here soon. But that's another issue you don't want me to get started on.
