Many local readers are no doubt aware that Maymont park had to kill its two bears because one of them bit a 4 year old, and they didn't know which one, and they had to make sure the biter didn't have rabies.
Now, if the bear had busted out of its high-security prison and gone on a violent rampage, tearing children and nuns into small wet bits, then I'd have said, "Go get that bear, Mr. Crockett!"
But that wasn't what happened.
It appears that the 4 year old climbed a 4 foot wooden fence, went into an area clearly marked as not where you should be going, then stuck his hand through a chain link fence. The bear smelled apple on the kid's hand, and took a bite. I don't think the 4 year old even needed stitches. It also appears that there was even at least one parent WITH the child.
Good gravy boat! What kind of moronic parent lets their 4 year old climb a fence and stick their hand through a fence at a BEAR! You don't do that with a strange poodle, much less a friggin bear!
And because this kid's parent or parents are idiots, two bears get whacked.
My own personal thoughts would be that the parents could use a little bear-time right about now. If I were Maymont, I'd sue the parents for the loss of the bears.
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it's tragic that such stupid parenting could cause such suffering. reproduction should require a test and a license.
Nice to see Doug Wilder getting on the case; nicer if he'd been consulted in the first place, but maybe he can prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Bad decision. If the kid had been bitten by a squirrel, the kid would have ended up getting the shots since the squirrel wouldn't have been available for testing; because they bears were under the stewardship of us primates, they ended up getting killed despite no evidence to suggest that they might be infected.
I still don't understand why they keep harping on the idea that they had to know beyond a shadow of a doubt if the bears had rabies. They say it as if it's a fact.
And I'm with chaos on licensing people for reproduction.
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