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Originally Posted by Iginla
And the zoo for not ensuring nobody could fall into the enclosure. I mean they wouldn't have the same setup for lions or tigers would they? Sure the mom is dumb for putting her kid in that situation but the zoo will likely also be facing a negligence lawsuit and I bet they'll be re-arranging that enclosure before it re-opens.
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I don't know about the zoo being found negligent. There's only so much you're expected to do, is it really foreseeable that someone would leave a child to stand on top of a 5ft high railing above an exhibit? I could certainly see a court saying that it's not. I mean 5ft is chest high or above for pretty much the entire population, people aren't going to trip and fall over this railing. The only way this happens is if someone actively puts themselves, or in this case their child, into harms way. You can't expect everything to be encased in a bubble, courts certainly don't.