I think I made a similar thread about a similar case a long time ago. Read the article here and tell me what you think. I'm no overzealous vegan fanatic but I do not try to deny that I love animals more than mankind. Civilised my arse, this primitive reaction proves that people, even those that work with animals, don't like them and they only want to exploit them. Like they never heard or tranquilisers. Or that animals were not born to follow orders :wacko: I am so happy when I get the chance to read about such accidents. Like when spanitards get impaled and that one where the orca killed its trainer.
The cameraman was doing a job under the impression the animal was safe, it killed her. She wasn't responsible for the show or the entrapment of the animal. Additionally I assume the animal trainers are not trained psychologically for situations where a person they were talking to is then bloodily ripped apart so shooting it was understandable. I won't be toasting to her death.
It's understandable to shoot, it's not understandable to have real firearms with them instead of tranquilisers. And by understandable I mean for you and me, not staff, who should be trained for such situations. Police officers are trained to perform routine checks on drivers, but they're also trained for dangerous situations, as they should be, so even if not the staff themselves, but at least the training team is at fault here. And those responsible for the equipment. And anyone who treats animals as rational creatures who know who is responsible for their suffering and expect them to distinguish between people is really stupid and needs to be shot for everyone's sake.
If such an animal is close by and wants to kill you, I'd assume you're long dead before the tranquilizer starts to work. I'm not surprised that they carried real firearms. Just saying.
tranquilizers are not instantaneous. any dosage of tranquilizer that will instantly stop an animal will also instantly kill them.
This. Even in the best of situations, you're trying to knock out a 200 pound killing machine. Int he worst, you're tying to knock out a 200 pound killing machine that's pissed off and so deep in kitty adrenaline that it could take a full 9mm clip to the chest and still have time to kill you before it realizes it's dead. Even our weak frail 150 lbs human bodies are nearly incapable of being knocked out instantly without severe tissue damage. A much better solution would be some sort of electrical device, similar to a TASER or cattle prod. It wouldn't knock it out, but the correct voltage would temporarily knock out the animals nervous system, rendering it incapable of movement. The problem with THAT is people will flip their **** and scream animal cruelty. Awesome.
I hate.. People. xD Omfg, how dare you electrocute a savage 200 lbs killing machine bent on ripping your innards out and spreading them marely across the fields...how dare you.
