Here is an article that I Shared on Facebook , it’s not as eloquently written as some before and I am not trying to say 'my Dick is bigger than yours ‘ it is simply a comment on how I saw things unfolding in the USA regarding this poor old Gorilla . there are no winners in what happened at the Zoo.

You know people are funny animals. I have been reading with sadness the story of the little four year old boy, who was with his mother at the Zoo. While they were near the Gorilla exhibit, the little boy somehow got away and fell into the Gorilla’s pen, the Gorilla waded into the mote and dragged the little boy by the arm and apparently was becoming agitated by all the yelling and screaming coming from the crowd. The little boy apart from being dragged by the arm through the water, also sustained contusions to the head and probably elsewhere. The Zoo’s emergency response team, shot the poor Gorilla dead in order to save the little boy. I think most reasonable people would agree that, that was the safest option for the child. However, now we have those upright members of society who call themselves PETA, they and others are now blaming the little boy’s mother for losing the child, which ended in him getting in the enclosure. With the end result being the Gorilla having to be shot. Apparently PETA members and others have been protesting outside the Zoo and getting a partition together urging the child welfare people take action against the no doubt distraught mother. I must admit that to blame the mother was my first reaction, that was until I sat down and thought about it a bit more. You know, since becoming a Grandfather, I have certainly realised what a fantastic and difficult job mother’s and some Grandmothers have in looking after their child /grandchild, making sure they are fed, bathed, dressed,entertained, taught good manners, taught how to speak correctly etc,etc. When our children were babies and then growing up, I was busy out there earning a living, trying to fight crime, be good at this and that. While I was doing all these things our children were being trained to their full potential to be good citizens of this world, so for a lot of this, I missed. I digress, when I took our about five years old son to the fishing and tackle exhibition at Olympic Park in Sydney, I was standing at the counter, probably buying the next magic fish slaying lure, I let go of my son’s hand while I looked in my wallet for some money to pay for the lure. I had no sooner done that and my son had wondered away, swept along as if by a rip at the beach and I had lost him. I was also with a mate so we split up and searched and searched, I felt really sick, had he been kidnapped? Was some mongeral going to hurt him? It all just happened so fast, one minute he was there, the next minute he was gone. I think most parents have experienced losing their child even if only for a minute, they are still lost and they can do just about anything in that time. No, I think these PETA people and the others need to stop and think for a minute, the mother might have just taken her eyes off the child for a minute, just long enough for him to vanish and then turn up in the enclosure with the Gorilla. I do feel very sorry for the Gorilla, but I also feel very sorry for the mother, It sort of reminds me of a song from way back, that was sung by such stars as Elvis, Joe South and others, the name of that song was 'walk a mile in my shoe’s. If you don’t know it, just Google the song’s name and you can listen to it on YouTube. I think the people from PETA and the others should go home and kiss their loved ones, we are only on this earth for a short time.