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Post number 1298

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:27:47 -0800

If this happened in the US, then the owners of the circus would be guilty of Manslaughter, at the very least, due to their negligence in not feeding the lions.

Of COURSE a starving lion is going to grab a kid; to a lion a human looks like lunch.

By: plinth

plinth — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:29:40 -0800

Is this the right link? I got "Orthodox monopoly on Jewish practice must be upheld, Israeli court told"...

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:44:16 -0800

You have to scroll all the way down to find where the orthodox rabbi eats the little ethiopian boy.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:01:52 -0800

Here's the real story.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:38:58 -0800

Careful, you'll get Jorn posting about Shahak again.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:42:21 -0800

Steven, do you really think this can't happen in the US?

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:36:10 -0800

Sorry about the wrong link. (Nando's JScript is strange, and I forgot about that.) And I didn't say it couldn't happen here; what I said is that the owners of the lions would have been charged with the death of the child here.

By: palegirl

palegirl — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:39:14 -0800

Circus probed after losing bear on I-10. [via obscurestore]

By: plinth

plinth — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:43:15 -0800

You see, you shouldn't think of it as manslaughter, you should think of it as Man's Laughter.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:55:09 -0800

Steven, according to the news tonight, the animal keeper probably will be charged with the Brazilian equivalent of manslaughter. You're being needlessly provincial.

By: EngineBeak

EngineBeak — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:01:41 -0800

Those Burzilians... fuckin barbarians, I tell ya.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:03:12 -0800

Ah. Indeed, the BBC reports that the lion tamer has been charged with manslaughter, and the zoo management may face safety charges for allowing people so close to the cages. Whether in America or, well, the Americas, travelling circuses enjoy lax oversight.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:14:27 -0800

Mea culpa. I confess to provincialism.