Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

This story just burns my biscuits.

A young boy raised a turtle for a few years, but it outgrew the little aquarium the family had trapped it in. As you can see, they don't get very big (record is less than 12 inches).



So, instead of bucking up and buying a bigger home for it, the parents decided to donate it to the nearby "Gulfarium".

Workers, happy to find a free meal for one of their alligators, fed it to Gracie the alligator . . . and even let the 8-year-old watch! What a special treat to see nature in action!

Now, his mother wants "compensation".

Brenda Guthrie and her 8-year-old son Colton witnessed Tomalina’s death as the red-eared slider disappeared into the alligator’s jaws. When the two looked away from the sight, she said they could hear the crunching of the turtle’s shell.

“He was jumping up and down screaming,” Guthrie said of her son’s reaction. “He was shouting, ‘Oh no alligator, let it go.’ ”

Mind you, the alligators in the exhibit share their space with other red-eared sliders, and have never been interested in eating them. Clearly, Gracie saw this website, and recognized the slider as a tasty dessert treat. Why, they show how to cook them right on the pet shop's website!

[handmaiden]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

The woman named her son "Colton" and wants to protect his tender 8 year old self from the knowledge that animals sometimes die.

If she TRYING to turn him into a sissy?!

Sheesh, at 8 years of age, boys in ancient Sparta were being taught to beat their opponents senseless. They were also taught to be raging homers, but at least they weren't sissies!

God wouldn't have given the gator so many teeth if He didn't intend for them to be used.

Dumbfoundedly Yours,

Handmaiden

[Seth Campbell]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

Liebrals should just not be allowed to breed. How are we ever going to stand up as a nation when all of these pantiwaists are ewwing and ickking over something so simple as one animal eating another.

[Lisa H]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

Really. What are people going on about today. I am even more amazed why the mother did not make Turtle Soup for the whole family to enjoy.

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

When I was a boy, my father would hire a truck and take me to the poor side of town. He would put up $1000 in cash (a lot of money in those days) to hire two bums to fight each other to the death in the back of the truck while we watched through the back window and and ate popcorn. When one of the bums was dead and the other one demanded his money, he'd stick a hose from the tailpipe into the back of the truck and drive to the river, where he'd dump the two bodies. Then we went to get ice cream.

I think he did it to teach me the cruelty and viciousness that's out there in the cold, hard world, and to beware. And I am the better for it today.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to clean the wood chipper.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

wood chipper.

Brother, are there two more beautiful words in the English language?

Well, other than "God", "Jesus", and "Holy Ghost", of course.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

Deacon Grampa Liberty told a similar story a while back involving a pickaninny servant boy and the lions at the Freehold Zoo. I think it happened in the twenties. Details are sketchy, though — you'd have to ask Grampa himself.

[LordHaveMercy]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

Really. What are people going on about today. I am even more amazed why the mother did not make Turtle Soup for the whole family to enjoy.

The Hussy probably can't even cook.

[Dr. Laurie PHD]

Re: Parents threaten to sue aquarium after donating gator food

I've decided to follow George W Bush's example and save time by only reading the headlines, or thread titles in this case.

I am shocked and appalled that these parents have so little value for personal responsibility that they would start a frivolous lawsuit just because a creature at a zoo ate their kid.