It’s undeniably frustrating when your view of Earth’s majestic animals is obscured from your full view by bars, but it’s one of those things that you accept because there really are no workarounds because those breathtaking creatures would literally rob you of your heartbeat, and your face if not for those bars.
But don’t you dare tell that to the unnamed Cleveland mom who, according to officials at the Cleveland Metropark Zoo, dropped her 2-year-old son into a cheetah pit after holding him over the railing. Actually, do. Do tell her about the need to both observe and respect railings and bars.
By the way, the mom — who may face child endangerment charges — and the boy’s father jumped in after the kid, who was unharmed by the cheetahs. But you knew that he was okay since my headline wasn’t, “Oh Snap, Cheetah Ate A Kid!”
In the end, we’re all just lucky that this was a surprisingly indifferent and/or chilled out cheetah pen and not the place where dingoes live. Because, as we know from Seinfeld, by way of a somewhat lesser-known Meryl Streep movie, dingoes eat babies.
Source: CBS