Its hard to get mad when you place an age on him. Its actually typical behaviour for a 7 year old boy with a fascination of predators. Usually this behaviour is controlled by the parent until the child learns the moral values that prevent such acts. Its has been shown numerous times that children do not yet have the higher comprehension of the actions they are doing.
Still not advocating the child get away with it. Punishment for your actions is part of developing that moral core.
There is no way that what he did is considered normal for anyone, even a 7 year old. His age is no excuse. When people hurt animals it makes me sick to my stomach.
I would have liked that story much more if after killing the animals, the kid fell into the crocodile pit and got eaten too. It would have served him right.
There is no way that what he did is considered normal for anyone, even a 7 year old. His age is no excuse. When people hurt animals it makes me sick to my stomach. I would have liked that story much more if after killing the animals, the kid fell into the crocodile pit and got eaten too. It would have served him right.
^^^^^ I agree with Slythe all the way. There is NOTHING even close to normal here, jesus guys you know better than this long before you reach 7.
That kid is probably a sociopath, hope they do something with him before he moves onto doing things to people if he hasn't already.
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There is no way that what he did is considered normal for anyone, even a 7 year old. His age is no excuse. When people hurt animals it makes me sick to my stomach. I would have liked that story much more if after killing the animals, the kid fell into the crocodile pit and got eaten too. It would have served him right.
^^^^^ I agree with Slythe all the way. There is NOTHING even close to normal here, jesus guys you know better than this long before you reach 7.
That kid is probably a sociopath, hope they do something with him before he moves onto doing things to people if he hasn't already.
I don't think It's "normal" exactly, but you have to wonder what this kids parents are like. I mean, how the hell is a 7 year old able to leave his house and break into a zoo?
It is a natural impulse at that age to feed predators, as an extension of our fascination with them. Destruction, and by extension, death, is also a natural impulse for almost all ages. Both are inhibited by social training as a child grows up. This crap however, is something else. That kid needs thereapy, badly.
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It is a natural impulse at that age to feed predators, as an extension of our fascination with them. Destruction, and by extension, death, is also a natural impulse for almost all ages. Both are inhibited by social training as a child grows up. This crap however, is something else. That kid needs thereapy, badly.
I blame the parrents. Daddy been hurting mommy too much.
Although I don't recall being 7 to well and can't be certain of my grasp of morals at that time, I am fairly positive I could connect action with consequences at that age. I am equally sure that were I knew not to do something like that as my parents would have punished me Old Testament style. So even if my understanding of right and wrong were limited, my fears of punishment would have steered me away from perpetrating such an act.
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I don't think It's "normal" exactly, but you have to wonder what this kids parents are like. I mean, how the hell is a 7 year old able to leave his house and break into a zoo?
Don't think I am ignoring the parents. Another thing to wonder about is just where the kid learned how to break into the zoo, the cages, etc. I remember walking down a street one afternoon and hearing the kids describe how they got into a neighbors yard to steal toys, they were using words ( I don't remember them) that kind of led me to believe that kind of thing was typical in their family.
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That act makes me sick. I can understand that it was a 7 year old, but what he did was just sick.
X D ZOMG!!11 I can't stop laughing......
That act makes me sick. I can understand that it was a 7 year old, but what he did was just sick.
I agree, the zoo is going to sue the kid's parents. Steve Irwin would be ashamed of this aussie kid.
Its hard to get mad when you place an age on him. Its actually typical behaviour for a 7 year old boy with a fascination of predators. Usually this behaviour is controlled by the parent until the child learns the moral values that prevent such acts. Its has been shown numerous times that children do not yet have the higher comprehension of the actions they are doing.
Still not advocating the child get away with it. Punishment for your actions is part of developing that moral core.
I don't know, it's hardly normal, but I think it's a kid that just didn't get a good education.
The child should just learn what you can and can't do and not be locked up in an institiution or punished too much. Just needs guidance.
There is no way that what he did is considered normal for anyone, even a 7 year old. His age is no excuse. When people hurt animals it makes me sick to my stomach.
I would have liked that story much more if after killing the animals, the kid fell into the crocodile pit and got eaten too. It would have served him right.
Not surprising. Australia was colonized by convicts
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^^^^^ I agree with Slythe all the way. There is NOTHING even close to normal here, jesus guys you know better than this long before you reach 7.
That kid is probably a sociopath, hope they do something with him before he moves onto doing things to people if he hasn't already.
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^^^^^ I agree with Slythe all the way. There is NOTHING even close to normal here, jesus guys you know better than this long before you reach 7.
That kid is probably a sociopath, hope they do something with him before he moves onto doing things to people if he hasn't already.
I don't think It's "normal" exactly, but you have to wonder what this kids parents are like. I mean, how the hell is a 7 year old able to leave his house and break into a zoo?
It is a natural impulse at that age to feed predators, as an extension of our fascination with them. Destruction, and by extension, death, is also a natural impulse for almost all ages. Both are inhibited by social training as a child grows up. This crap however, is something else. That kid needs thereapy, badly.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Hemingway
There was a great headline about an Irish zoo a few years ago.
"Vandal throws penguins to the lions".
That had me laughing for days.
I blame the parrents. Daddy been hurting mommy too much.
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Although I don't recall being 7 to well and can't be certain of my grasp of morals at that time, I am fairly positive I could connect action with consequences at that age. I am equally sure that were I knew not to do something like that as my parents would have punished me Old Testament style. So even if my understanding of right and wrong were limited, my fears of punishment would have steered me away from perpetrating such an act.
If you are not being responded to directly, you are probably on my ignore list.
Don't think I am ignoring the parents. Another thing to wonder about is just where the kid learned how to break into the zoo, the cages, etc. I remember walking down a street one afternoon and hearing the kids describe how they got into a neighbors yard to steal toys, they were using words ( I don't remember them) that kind of led me to believe that kind of thing was typical in their family.
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dont blame the kid.but i gotta say,he's one hell of an unusual kid.
Challenge me.
maybe the kid has a psychological disorder, or he watched too much tv..