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    On this day 10 years ago: Harambe the gorilla was shot and killed after a child slipped into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo
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    On this day 10 years ago: Harambe the gorilla was shot and killed after a child slipped into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo


    On this day 10 years ago: Harambe the gorilla was shot and killed after a child slipped into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo



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    1. Asleep_Tap6199 on

      Mmmm now that I think about it how’s the kid doing??? I can only imagine the trauma that they’re went through and possibly could be still going through

    8. Worldly_Cap_6440 on

      He was our golden hope, thanks a lot kid’s parents who can’t watch their children properly

    9. Papio_73 on

      Memes aside, I feel so bad for the zookeepers. It must’ve been so traumatic. That said, it was the right decision as the child’s life was at stake.

    13. NotLawAbiding on

      I hate what they did but i understand why they made that decision, even though Harambe didnt have a history of violence. I really wish they had used the tranquilizer instead but that could have agitated him and he could have taken it out on the child. And i know we all could say “fuck that kid he deserved it” but c’mon. He is old enough now to be on the internet to see how hated he is and will always be because this is going to be posted somewhere every year and he has to live with that unique situation that the high majority of us wont have to. Fuck the parents, leave the kid alone tho.

    15. Mental_Technician on

      Imagine being that kid nowadays and telling people that you were the kid. Lmao

    25. Traditional-Bet2191 on

      Dude it’s crazy it’s been 10 years. It’s insane to think I was 17 and a junior in high school when this happened.

    28. EricHD97 on

      Time is so weird. Summer of 2016 was full of so many huge moments (Harambe, Pokemon Go, Stranger Things season 1 to name just a few) and they feel like so many lifetimes ago, yet they’re “only” decade old now. How can something feel so close and so far away at the same time?

      (Yeah I know, it’s the thing that happened in November that year compounded with the pandemmy).

      Dicks out forever

    29. Thin-Honey892 on

      It just takes one decision to change the karmic cycle and this was it.

    32. isaidyothnkubttrgo on

      How bizzare that this event is a pinpoint in so many people’s memories.

      I know some people shit on the kid but where were the parents? He’s clearly young enough to still need an eye on him. Harambe was a wild animal at the end of the day too. He had no history of violence but neither does the neighbourhood dog until it attacks out of nowhere. People shouting and roaring down at him could have flipped him out. We don’t know.

      Horrible situation all around and I think a lot of people learned how harsh life is in that moment.

    35. 77_parp_77 on

      Wonder if that kid knows that they splintered the timeline by causing this