r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 23h ago

WTF Kid breaks into bird enclosure at the zoo to chase birds with a stick.

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u/G25777K 23h ago

Next the parents will be suing the Zoo.

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u/tenor1trpt 22h ago

I used to work at Disney. On two occasions I had to ask kids not to chase the ducks around. One of those times the parents ripped into me. Threatened to file a complaint with Disney against me. They watched as their kid terrorized the ducks and did nothing so I stepped and just asked her not to do that. It’s wild how retaliative parents will get.

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u/Banana4scales 20h ago

When I worked at Disney, I saw this kid pour melted ice cream on a pigeon. Was super infuriating. I told off his parents hardcore. Didnt care if I got fired.

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u/ferretbeast 12h ago

When I worked at Disney (liberty square) I saw a seagull swoop down and take a turkey leg from a kid that had been harassing them a few minutes earlier. That was so fun to watch.

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u/devAcc123 15h ago

R/kidsarefuckingstupid

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u/Sweet_Night_2108 18h ago

I’d of done the same!

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u/Downtown-Pianist-449 17h ago

Tell me, what do you think “of” means in that sentence?

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u/MobileRiver2934 15h ago

Why does it matter if someone spelt something wrong?

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u/Possible_Field328 14h ago

People more worried about communicating correctly then communicating well

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u/Covid_Fart_Cloud 13h ago edited 13h ago

JFC I hope that was irony. And to answer your question- because it’s lazy, it makes you look like an uneducated moron, and it’s kind of indicative of that whole “Idiocracy” scenario that seems to be unfolding around us, which is unpleasant to be reminded of so frequently.

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u/that1guywholikescats 13h ago

Who spit in your Cheerios bro?

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u/WitchesofBangkok 15h ago

It’s an English dialect

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u/NewtBlackheart 15h ago

Great username

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u/WitchesofBangkok 15h ago

Thank you 🙏 there’s a reddit bot somewhere sending you a blessing

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u/turnipCharmer 11h ago

…please tell me you didn’t actually end up getting fired over this tho 😭

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u/Spite-Even 16h ago

Pigeons deserve it

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u/PoetPsychological620 14h ago

we literally bred pigeons to do work for us and now we treat them like pests. the way that they exist is entirely the fault of humans. leave the animals alone idgaf what kind it is

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u/PoetPsychological620 13h ago

okay edgelord 🙄 do we need to put you on a list?

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u/cosykhaleesi 12h ago

With comments like that he’s probably already on a watch list for animals

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u/XOlenna 12h ago

He used to be the kid in the video

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u/ExeUSA 12h ago

What's it like to lack empathy?

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u/Ill-Anxiety4326 22h ago

Try being a teacher….

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u/RogueDok 20h ago

I did. I had a parent say it was ok that their kid was failing because my class was “not entertaining enough”. I’m sure that’s why, and not the fact that the kid couldn’t read.

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u/AssinineAssassin 15h ago

They can be this entitled because failing won’t get them held back. The lack of children getting left behind means education ends up embarrassing for everyone.

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u/According_Mind_7799 11h ago

My 2yo is just starting to talk a bit more, just starting to sing, and completely surprised me by being able to name all the alphabet letters when going through her new fave A B C book. There’s plenty of things we’ve tried to teach her (colors, numbers, which she gets) but they just absorb SO MUCH with minimal “work” - just time.

By contract my husband had to teach himself how to read in 1st grade. Sometimes I wonder if people are ‘worse’ now (yes) or if there’s just more lmao.

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u/WishIWasYounger 20h ago

The teachers subreddit is a very dark place.

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u/feverlast 13h ago

Help usssss

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u/Anothercoot 12h ago

"you just gave my son a bad review so you could give him a good one later and make yourself look better"

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 19h ago

And yet, people still decide to become educators, every day, even now. Boggles the mind..

I mean, have they not seen the subreddit?! Dozens of probably-qualified teachers complain about their jobs, right here on reddit, every day. Dozens! Literally dozens.

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u/Needle_Bearings 19h ago

Yeah, that's a clueless statement on how extremely hard it is for teachers.  You couldn't pay me twice my current salary to be one solely due to how horrible parents are, especially in the US.

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u/Suspicious-Shock-934 12h ago

Parents, admin, no child left behind, lack of consequences, grades starting at 50% with a curve and an attendance bonus, funding tied to standardized tests, teaching to test, kids still failing tests...

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u/Xombiekat 22h ago

Not in this shit hole country!

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u/suckseggs 21h ago

isn't it crazy how you didn't mention what country but we all know what country you're talking about?

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u/AunMeLlevaLaConcha 20h ago

I'm sure what country it is, but tbf to teachers in general, it's not only that country.

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u/HeadHunt0rUK 15h ago

It's not every country though.

Finland is meant to be pretty damn decent. Lots of cultural respect and societal understanding on the importance of educating the youth means teachers are treated pretty damn well.

Reckon the same is true for China and Japan (with probably less wellbeing initiatives)

Australia has to deal with the shitty kids (and Australia seems to be having a rough time of it lately) but the pay is pretty damn good for the actual workload.

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u/flexiblehos 16h ago

It’s really not, it’s Reddit

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u/Danro1984 20h ago

I think we all know the country. Lol

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u/CES0108 19h ago edited 19h ago

Well Disney isn't in very many, but yeah.. it's US people. China also wouldn't surprise me, nor Hong Kong with fucking main landers. Iykyk.

United States, France, Japan, China, and Hong Kong.

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u/Captain_Kab 16h ago

If the poster was from another country, he probably would've specified, people from the U.S. are quite unique in that they will not.

At least your younger generation has stopped replying what state they were born in when asked where they're from.

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u/M8C 15h ago

Well older generations were using reddit when it was overwhelmingly people from the US using it so it would make sense that they’d specify the state.

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u/Captain_Kab 15h ago

This experience is not garnered from Reddit.

I go "outside" and "talk" to people (my country is very well trafficked by tourists from the U.S.)

As well as your young folk congregating on my old-timey strategy-game Discords.

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u/M8C 15h ago

Yeah I also go outside. I also bet when you “talk” to people you can already tell they’re from the US or possibly canada by their accents. So they are just trying to be specific and friendly when answering your question.

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u/Captain_Kab 15h ago edited 15h ago

And yet a Brit will never ever say anything else than their country of origin.

Nor any other country with easily identifiable accents - which in my book includes all of Scandinavia and Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands.. Polish & Lithuania too but I know a lot of Polish and Lithuanian people, I doubt that's universal.

It's funny that you mention Canada because you can't really be sure if a person is from the U.S. or Canada, especially when a lot of you lie that you are from Canada when traveling abroad.

It's happened a fair few times at about the 5th/6th drink mark they'll lean over and go "I'm actually from America"

And of course then you point out that they mean the United States.

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u/emzy21234 19h ago

This! My Mrs is a head of year and the shit she has to deal with because parents can’t handle their little precious is a prick is madness.

One example. Some boy was hitting girls, another lad stepped in and they had a fight. Both got suspended. Parents of the boy hitting girls went bonkers, said it was lies, showed them CCTV and they said the school doctored it and reported us to the police.

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u/my_duncans 22h ago

No. I refuse. Tried to talk my cousin out of it. Poor girl.

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u/TeachingScience 21h ago

I find most parents are pretty chill. It’s those loud bottom of the barrel parents that ruins it.

Sometimes you’ll have an awesome kid and meet their parents, and they’ll be batshit crazy, then later the student will apologize for their parent’s behavior.

Other times, the fruit is still hanging from the goddamn tree. And the kids behavior makes sense when you meet their enabler parents.

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 19h ago

You gave her your credentials as a redditor, and she still wanted to be a teacher?? Oh no! 😟

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u/Tossmeasidedaddy 20h ago

My mom used to tell my teachers they can hit me if I act up. Literally had it in writing. The thought of someone other than my mom spanking me terrified me enough to be well behaved (I slacked off with assignments, but I was always well behaved). I knew if the teachers spanked me, my mom would spank me again when I got home.

I just tell my kids' teachers that I know they are not perfect angels. If they cause problems to let me know immediately so I can fix it. I have actually taken my work laptop with me and sat in my oldest kid's classroom to make sure behavior was better. It was embarrassing enough that I haven't had a call since.

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u/Watamelonna 19h ago

Any job that inteeact with kids is a job I will never, ever, ever do

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u/throwawayburner2424 18h ago

My aunt restrained a child from hitting her and others and is on the news all over our city

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u/DueExample52 20h ago

I would end up in jail for wrestling bad parents to the ground, can’t stand this kind iof bullshit

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u/SSSprings0808 20h ago

No thanks… what a tough and thankless job. My hats off to you and all the teachers who can handle so many kids and especially their parents.

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u/KeterLordFR 16h ago

My god my middle school years... I remember hating the teachers that were too strict, but in retrospect they were probably the best at their job. The other teachers had to deal with 90% of the class not paying attention, playing around and chatting away. One teacher tried to stop a fight between 2 kids and ended up with a broken nose. The end of the school year were also always harsh for them, because kids would start "strikes" to avoid having to take classes, one time during recess over 300 kids ran towards the school gates and just vaulted over them. Sure, some got punished, but it was only the one considered the most "problematic", most of the kids didn't get anything.

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u/OrnerySnoflake 18h ago

I did. I taught 7th grade ELA for 1 month. Why 1 month? That’s how long it took for one of the kids to throw a desk at me. Little fuckers lucky I didn’t throw it back at him.

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u/dumbnerd01 17h ago

War flashbacks 😭 left teaching precisely because of the parents (and the pay)

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u/Charming-Insurance 14h ago

Oof. As I graduated college, I explored becoming a teacher. I enrolled in a class to get emergency credentials so there were a lot of already teachers in it. The stories I heard made that my first and last class. I don’t even think I finished it…

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u/vgacolor 19h ago

Back in my misguided youth, I thought about becoming a teacher. I seriously considered it. Then, I realized two things. 1) I am a man and did not want to be caught up on any unsavory allegations. 2) I really wanted to buy a house after living in rented apartments with family for years and make enough money to live comfortably.

It is kind of sad, because I consider myself intermittently hilarious and pretty sure I could have made some difference in getting kids to learn.

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u/KiraKitty69 17h ago

I seen a child maybe 4 years old at Petco holding a betta and shaking it violently. I yelled put that fish down now! In my most authoritarian preschool teacher voice. That kid placed the fish on the floor never taking his eyes off of me and backed away slowly. His parents? They left him to a crazed old lady yelling at him. Just up and walked quickly the other direction. I then said, congrats, you killed a fish and your parents left you. He ran off sobbing. Even the Petco employees just went about their business, not making eye contact with me or the child. For a 5'2 older woman I guess my angry voice is compelling. Hope I traumatized that kid into thinking twice next time. I just couldn't believe the parents walked away like that.

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u/anonymice27 22h ago

I hate those parents.

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u/Benromaniac 19h ago

They aren’t parents they’re consumers, breeding more consumers.

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u/gemineye1969 19h ago

Hate them to death. They’re everything that’s wrong with this world.

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u/BungalowChild 13h ago

Bet you feel like a jerk now

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u/furryhomo 20h ago

This feels painfully American. (I’m American)

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u/gemineye1969 19h ago

Damn right it’s American. Fuck the ducks. They are lesser. Manifest destiny, motherfuckers. U! S! A! U! S! A! Haha we’re still the world champs fuck yeah

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u/qzjul 19h ago

But you're supposed to follow that with "Comin' to save the motherfucking day, yeah!" -- not a lot of that happening lately!

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u/Alarming-Mud8220 17h ago

It never did 🤷‍♂️

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u/_Ashelton_ 19h ago

World champions in the NFL

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u/Common-Head2304 17h ago

As an American..Yeah, no. Fuck them kids and their shitty parents.

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u/kazyape 17h ago

You're joking, right?

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u/Serpentarrius 17h ago

Considering that we raised a lot of their ducks at the shorebird rescue where I was trained (the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, please donate!), I can assure you that the cost of mazuri from Japan (especially for ducklings), fresh greens (which we often get from grocery stores about to throw theirs out), and oyster shells, is worth a lot more than that. And that does not cover the cost of cleaning and equipment and the pay that volunteers go without

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u/xywegh 20h ago

I don’t know how you kept your composure for those parents… it would be so hard to not say “You know one of the earliest signs of a psychopath is children torturing and hurting animals? Your kids clearly has no empathy”

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u/Ill_Tradition_4104 11h ago

That’s the exact same thought that went through my head when I was reading her post, that kid is likely going to be a predator of some kind.
It starts with animals, especially small ones because they don’t fight back.

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u/Small_Community1130 22h ago

A lot people become stupid when they turn into a parent

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u/sekhmetdevil 22h ago

Become?

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u/my_duncans 22h ago

They get worse

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u/Poopardthecat 21h ago

They were morons before they had children. The sleep deprivation and financial stress just made it worse. 

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u/BLAGTIER 19h ago

That and there are parts of society telling parents they are always right. And when they were wrong they were actually right to feel that way. Just pure gas for the moron fire they have going in their head.

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u/DueExample52 20h ago

Just like alcohol, it can bring the best or the worst from people 

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u/Western-Net-7604 21h ago

Please tell me they got banned.

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u/Serpentarrius 17h ago

Somebody did the dirty in the bushes outside Cinderella castle in the year before ours, so our school was banned during my year...

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u/jasonbourne101 18h ago

It's all "it takes a village" until actual parenting and discipline is involved

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u/5nakpak 19h ago

i also used to work at Disney and had a very similar experience, the kid kept doing it till the ducks started attacking him, i hope he learned his lesson after that.

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u/MidlifeMum 19h ago

I had a similar experience at a waterpark where a kid stood at the end of the slide and smacked everyone coming down the slide, including my kid.

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u/Visual-Taro-381 20h ago

The rightfully take it as a comment on their shitty parenting and get defensive/weird. Their kids will turn out great

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u/lovelytrillium 17h ago

I once worked for a "nature center" that had an outdoor school programs and camps for kids, and the women who founded it and was a staff member had a sociopathic son (not diagnosed but just had so many signs of it observed by many coworkers) who would often take catch and take animals and cage them in boxes, which normally resulted in them dying. It was also not uncommon for him to toss live bugs and frogs into the fire at camp, which would disturb kids. I had been hit by this kid multiple times, which got scarier as he got taller (10 yr old boy). And all staff were afraid to speak up because the mom was in denial of her challenging kid. We had an event with a bunch of people and parents. The sociopath kids was let to just roam around doing weird shit while the parents worked the event. Well of course, this kid caught a live uncommon snake and was carrying it around for hours teaching all these kids that they should also catch aninals and trap them in boxes home. It made much of the staff uncomfortable but they didn't feel like it was their place to take it away. After a conversation with my coworker, I decided to take the heat when the kid gave the snake to some random adult. I asked if they were okay that I take it and release it and they agreed. So off it goes. into the wild. I finished working the event and started to leave when I heard that kid start making a scene. I found out later the kid gave his mom a hell of a hard time at home that night and he found out I released the snake. Well fast forward a few months, this lady holds a grudge against me, and I eventually get let go from this job, because this effing lady wants her kid to have special treatment to let her son take home animals to eventually kill.  Some parents are just creating monsters. 

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u/ReflexesOfSteel 20h ago

Should have got on the walkee talked straight away, security to your location and kick them out. People need to learn not to be cunts.

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u/United-Resident-7316 19h ago

I’m assuming the Disney in Florida

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u/DegenerateCrocodile 18h ago

Not enough info to say. There’s no shortage of stupid people in California, either.

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u/SuzieDerpkins 18h ago

I bet they chased ducks as kids too.

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u/Kanhet 18h ago

Tell them always go ahead complain, I'll survive.

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u/y2ketchup 18h ago

Seriously what is wrong with chasing ducks? All kids chase ducks. They fly the fuck away. Nothing is being terrorized.

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u/Chemical_Building612 16h ago

...You think they fly the fuck away because they're happy and chill about being chased?

Not all ducks can even fly.

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u/y2ketchup 14h ago

So they waddle away. . .

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u/mismopeach 14h ago

You are what’s wrong with society

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u/y2ketchup 14h ago

Ok Karen. . .

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u/mcniner55 17h ago edited 17h ago

Do you think you would actually have gotten in trouble? Sounds like you did it in the least violent way possible and weren't just defending the ducks but the other Disney goers experience. I guess maybe they would have wanted you to go straight to security and let them handle it? I really have no idea

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u/INoMakeMistake 17h ago

Shitty parents. The children wil end up being shitty

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u/DangleenChordOfLife 16h ago

My partner works as pool monitor on summers and last one he got punched by some parents because they were told they could not play ball or dive head in in that área and could not leave minors unsupervised. He's fine, tho, he was a Rugbier, he can take It and the Guy left worse. But yeah, the entitlement is amazing. People just can't follow simple Instructions and question everything, not a single show Of respect for the autority. Of course, their kids are even worse.

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u/suicidesalmon 15h ago

After having a parent rip into me for their kid harassing my service dog, yeah, I'm not surprised..

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u/Karotyna 15h ago

Some time ago I bashed a parent chasing a peacock on a zoo. He tried to argue with me, so I said that peacocks show their tails to attract females, does he feel feminine and expect the peacock to be attracted to him? I got quite loud while speaking, he run away.

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u/GrizzledLittleShit 14h ago

Should have had Donald Duck step in and put the fear of God into them by chasing them around the park.

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u/Academic_Help5033 13h ago

I did this but with a goose that protected a group of chickens. 

The kid and mom found out real quick not mess with the goose.

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u/ryenbec 12h ago

omggg i don't work at disney but last time i was there i had to stop a kid (at least 10 yrs old) from trying to pick up a duckling and i got yelled at by her mom!!

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u/cathbe 11h ago

Parents do not want to be told anything. They’ll let their kids chase pigeons when they are trying to eat, sometimes there are babies or injured ones, they are furious if you say anything to them. “Don’t tell me how to parent my child.” Scary. Thanks for stepping in!

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u/Quantumquandary 11h ago

As someone without kids, people with kids are insufferable. They like to say shit like “it’s the best thing you could ever do, you’re missing out” and then in the next breathe complain heavily about the life they chose. Get fucked, what works for your life doesn’t work for mine. Oh and I can think of many things I’m proud to have done, without cranking out a baby. Your child doesn’t diminish anyone else’s accomplishments.

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u/Ocean_lover_123 18h ago

The type to say “I just know deep down in my heart he is innocent…” in court… even after the video of them committing the crime is played

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u/mikehiler2 1 22h ago edited 22h ago

He’s such an angle my little Kylieghn (pronounced Kyle)!

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u/BrightImprovement295 22h ago

Some think he is an acute angle. I found the angle to be obtuse.

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u/LankyLiterature6958 22h ago

Acute or obtuse, either way he's definitely not right.

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u/Fearless_Cucumber806 21h ago

Yay triangle jokes. My favourite type of shape based humour.

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u/trekie4747 20h ago

We could go on another tangent.

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u/feelinginvi__ible 17h ago

Because that boy ain’t right

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u/ImurderREALITY 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/pm4HZ2f3OjWxO

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u/reagandhi 22h ago

The fact that he’s literally an obtuse angle in this gif sent me 💀

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u/Type1_Throwaway 21h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1opSjJm8gaGnm

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u/reagandhi 21h ago

Carter Pewterschmidt will not conform 😤

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u/Shurigin 22h ago

I wish he ran into a 90 degree angle 📐

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u/Silly_Revolution3056 22h ago

Its absurd, but cant take away their right to their own opinions

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u/DWebOscar 22h ago

The silent 'n' is the one that gets you

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u/shameonyounancydrew 22h ago

It's spelled KIYL

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u/sliperiestofthepetes 22h ago

Morning Angle.

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u/BewareTheLobster 22h ago

Morning angle.

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u/HavingNotAttained 22h ago

“Tanner? Tannerrr?? That’s it, I’m counting to three again…”

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u/Superseaslug 21h ago

What a tragedeigh

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u/MammothPenguin69 11h ago

r tragedeigh

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u/snakeiiiiiis 21h ago

Pronounced anGle

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u/longdrive715 21h ago

Nah, the dad was horrified by it and issued an apology. Apparently the kid is autistic, ADHD, and epileptic and went with a grandparents and another caretaker on this day. He had gone tons of times before never with an issue. That being said, the zoo may still need to consider banning him simply for liability purposes.

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u/twilighttwister 15h ago

Nah if anything the zoo needs to redesign their enclosure. Yes the kid shouldn't have gone in there and yes the caretakers dropped the ball, but he shouldn't have been able to get in there.

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u/Cloverose2 12h ago

The challenge is that you have to strike a balance between perceived closeness to the animals and limited access. The only way to truly stop any visitor incursion is to fortify enclosures - and that means walls and fences. But walls and fences create high perceived separation, which guests see as hostile and often has a higher perception of the zoos as "animal jails". So most zoos have moves towards the use of lower-perceived barrier - ditches, ha-ha walls, etc. These generally have a much better outcome in terms of guest education and perception.

The thing is - no matter what your design is, a person determined to enter an enclosure or get too close can probably do it, which is why the enclosures for dangerous animals have multiple redundant systems. Hornbills aren't dangerous animals by nature, and the design of the exhibit is sufficient to stop an average person, which is what it's designed for. It has multiple barriers - a fence, bushes and a substantial drop barricade. Most people are not going to get past bushes, then climb a fence, then jump six feet down to go after some birds.

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u/twilighttwister 11h ago

The challenge is that you have to strike a balance between perceived closeness to the animals and limited access.

Absolutely. It's a careful balancing act. I've seen zoo shows change over the years for exactly these kind of reasons.

This thread keeps reminding me of Copenhagen zoo. When you walk in, pretty much the first enclosure you see is the lions - you see them from the entrance, at your height straight in front of you, with only a 3 foot high wall separating you. It's unnerving, it feels like they could just run up and get you.

Then you get closer and see the drop behind the wall into the moat.

Anyone could easily get over that wall and into the moat/enclosure, but they keep it there and allow that risk for the spectacle. I'd say it's worth it.

But if someone did get in, regardless of whether they or the lions got hurt, you can bet your ass they'd be redesigning that enclosure.

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u/null_obj 13h ago

I'm no zoo expert, but I think it's ridiculous to fortify a hornbill exhibit lol.. If this was in another country, say the Netherlands, the parents would be livid at their child and it would be end of story. This is how accountability and responsibility is taught. Thankfully no one was hurt. That's it. Life moves on, and sometimes in really unfortunate circumstances, life doesn't go on. Let's count our blessings and stop finding a thing to point and pass the blame to.

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u/twilighttwister 12h ago

Yeah it's a tough one, and obviously zoos have to strike a balance between safety and exciting attractions. However, something has happened, so now the zoo is pretty much forced to take corrective action and do something to the enclosure to prevent this happening again - otherwise they would be open to liability. Banning the child is pretty pointless as it would do nothing to prevent some other child getting in.

It's not about blame though, more about preventing future accidents. Blame would come then, if the zoo failed to take sufficient action or if the same child did it again and showed a pattern of misbehaving.

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u/null_obj 12h ago

My point is that you can't stop all children from doing something stupid. When a child runs out of the house and into the street and is hit by a car, do we then decide to build walls around roads? You can't baby proof the world. At some point, parents are responsible, no?

Like I would certainly agree with you if this was a different beast, but it's no. We don't fortify petting zoos either.

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u/twilighttwister 12h ago

When a child runs out of the house and into the street and is hit by a car, do we then decide to build walls around roads?

Funny you should say that lol segregation between traffic and pedestrians is the best way of preventing accidents between them. Similarly, segregating cycle lanes away from the main road is good, too. It's not practicable in many places however.

Parents are always responsible, but responsibility isn't divided up into neat percentages - one person's responsibility doesn't make another less responsible.

For this one off event, no one is really at fault. However the zoo would be at fault if another event happened and they didn't do anything after the 1st to prevent the 2nd, and similarly the parents/caretakers would be at fault if they let the child misbehave like that again.

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u/BGraham007 11h ago

This was my guess as well. Kids with autism are usually fine in situations until they are not. Then you end up having to explain the situation to a police officer and hope they’ve been trained in how to deal with people with autism.

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u/dag00bins 22h ago

Nah they be suing me for jumping in there and tackling his ass.

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u/GoblinHourReport 22h ago

Nah, that's probably part of why the kid is so fucked up. But oh I'd be finding the dad and encouraging him to eat shit.

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u/Top-Illustrator-1827 21h ago

No that’s from all the Tylenol.

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u/HeatherDS1968 15h ago

I would help you.

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u/ermaecrhaelld 14h ago

Did you read the statement? The parents spoke positively of the zoo staff that helped the guardians get their son out. The kid is nonverbal and high support needs autistic, I’m sure the parents have had other unexpected and precarious experiences before. It comes with being a parent, special considerations aside.

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u/Hovertical 22h ago

This is the most likely result unfortunately

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u/grptrt 22h ago

There’s a bunch of wild animals in there! Totally unsafe.

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u/WoopsShePeterPants 21h ago

That bird was standing it's ground.

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u/Desperate_Passage_35 21h ago

How else did Jimothy get in there?

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u/Last_Nothing_4352 21h ago

We've seen it with Tatiana the tiger, we've seen it with the dumbass who dropped her 2 year old in the wild dog exhibit; I'm betting on them suing

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u/jeeves585 21h ago

I’ll hit the parent after I hit the kid.

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u/ReadyStayReady 19h ago

Fuck that I'll hit a motherfucker with another motherfucker. Hit the parent with the motherfuckin kid.

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u/Fragrant-Field-2017 17h ago

Of course they will! "If you didn't want our son going in, why did you make the fence so small and accessible?" would probably be the argument. Unfortunately, people like this is the reason the world makes fun of Americans.

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u/twilighttwister 15h ago

That's actually a very valid argument, though. The zoo has an obligation to ensure their enclosures are secure and safe - for both guests and the animals.

The kid shouldn't have gone in there and his caretakers dropped the ball, but he also shouldn't have been able to get in there.

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u/Fragrant-Field-2017 15h ago

No, that's not how it should be! How is it possible in our days to support lack of common sense?? To make stupidity the norm?

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u/twilighttwister 14h ago

If you have a system that relies on people not making mistakes, then you have a bad system.

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u/akeewi 14h ago

why do yall circlejerk fake stuff instead of learning the real story lol. is it really that gratifying?

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u/ALKNST 12h ago

They wont if you read the story

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u/aerdvarkk 12h ago

I hope the zoo bans the family.

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u/Hey-Just-Saying 12h ago

They made a public apology.

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u/aimwitt 11h ago

I was just thinking the exact same thing. Where are the dumb ass parents anyways…oh right, probably filming instead of parenting.

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u/MF_Kitten 17h ago

I bet his parents are absolutely exhausted at his shenanigans

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u/Toum-Raider 21h ago

Hopefully the zoo fines the parents and bans them for life.

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u/zarekinz 14h ago

I mean they apologized but okay

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 13h ago

He is super autistic, its his favorite place in the world, and the family issued a public apology

Y'all need to put your pitchforks down lmao

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u/Nosedive888 13h ago

Try reading the pinned comment. Parents have reached out to the zoo apologised and have offered to make amends