7 Yr Old Boy Kills 13 Animals at Zoo | BBC NEWS
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A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.
Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals. During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.
Zoo officials described the boy's actions as "unbelievable". They are considering suing the parents as the boy is too young to be prosecuted.
'Difficult to replace'
The attack happened on Wednesday morning after the boy entered the zoo by jumping over the security fence and evading sensor alarms.
Over the next half hour, he bludgeoned some of the animals to death with stones and hurled others over the two fences surrounding the crocodile enclosure. At one point, he tried scaling the outer enclosure himself to get to "Terry", the 11ft (3.3m) saltwater crocodile.
A turtle, four Western blue-tongued lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and the zoo's 20-year-old goanna were among those killed. Zoo director Rex Neindorf said many of the animals were rare or mature and would be difficult to replace.
"The fact a seven-year-old can wreak so much havoc in such a short time, it's unbelievable," he told Reuters news agency. Mr Neindorf said the boy had "clammed up" when questioned by police.
As children under the age of 10 cannot be held accountable for their actions in the Northern Territory, the zoo would be seeking to take action against the parents. "We'll be looking at suing the parents, who were supposedly in control of him at the time," he said.
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rtg
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Intense therapy, and then he might still turn out to be a sociopath, but its better than doing nothing..
- 3 years ago
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rtg
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step74
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Future serial killer huh!!?
Did anyone see the remake of the movie "Halloween"? The movie showed more detail on how Mike Myers became himself. Yeah, that is fiction, but damn, this is real.. Where were his parents & did they not notice that he wasn't at home? What a looney.. what if ol' "Terry the Croc" ate his little ass up, then everyone would want to send "Terry" to his deathbed..
in reponse to the guy that states that "boys will be boys', you must be kind of looney yourself. You say that you turned out ok, but what does others think of you..hmmmm...crazy maybe? - 3 years ago
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step74
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marpunk
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That little bastard, the parents should be punished for letting that little shit kill all of those zoo animals.
- 3 years ago
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marpunk
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Xena1128
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they just mention that they are shocked that a child could cause such havok in a little amount of time...HELLO he killed living animals, does that not alarm anyone...oh sure go after the parents....I dont think they put him up to this...I really dont...
Parent gets punished, kid grows up to be a serial killer or something...Nice.
- 3 years ago
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Xena1128
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Casmaron
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Australia's next up and coming serial killer.
Unfortunately, this kid is a done deal. No amount of therapy can "cure" a psychopath. Blaming the parents is like blaming them for giving birth to a kid with eleven fingers. All you can do is lock him up now, or tag the kid so you know where he is at all times for the rest of his life.
- 3 years ago
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Casmaron
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SDLN
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I did worse things than that when I was a kid. You could feed a small village with all the jack rabbits, snakes, quail, and lizards my friends and I killed with our BB guns. All of us turned out alright. It's too bad the boy killed the animals, but boys will be boys.
- 3 years ago
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SDLN
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jerricka
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SDLN:
You cannot honestly shrug this off with a "boys will be boys" statement. Using a BB gun to kill animals is cruel, but it's nothing compared to BLUDGEONING small animals to death with rocks.
This kid has some problems.
- 3 years ago
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jerricka
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SDLN
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SDLN:
Honestly, I can. I mean, we did all kinds of sadistic stuff beyond shooting BB guns, like putting lizards in beer bottles and smashing the bottles on rocks, or throwing them up in the air so they smash on the street, repeatedly until the poor little things were all cut open and dead. We would catch cats and feed them to dogs. I could go on and on. But we were boys; we were experimenting. You live and you learn.
- 3 years ago
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SDLN
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Big_Hindu
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SDLN:
Holy crap dude you were one messed up kid. The farthest I went towards that is killing ants and worms.
- 3 years ago
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Big_Hindu
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SDLN
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SDLN:
Well, maybe. We had a pretty loose lease, though. Growing up in the late 70's, early 80's, people didn't seem as uptight about hijinks as they do now. But we certainly look back in disbelief about some of the stuff we did.
We're all well adjusted adults now, and none of us, to the best of my knowledge, have had therapy or counseling of any kind. That's kind of the point I was trying to get at. What the kid did was horrifying, but I wouldn't write him off because of it.
- 3 years ago
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SDLN
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jerricka
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SDLN:
Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. It's frightening, almost.
Still, it's good that you turned out alright, but that doesn't mean this kid will. Like I said, this sort of thing indicates a sociopath and yes, it may not be a tell-tale sign, but it should be looked into. - 3 years ago
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jerricka
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kaffegeek
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He cannot be from australia, or else he would have built a fire and eaten the tasty critters !!
- 3 years ago
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kaffegeek
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Big_Hindu
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I smell the next Australian serial killer, this kid is just f-d up.
- 3 years ago
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Big_Hindu
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Kati_kat
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Ok, seriously, that's an early sign of a psychopath, who does not understand the difference between right and wrong, and that kid could end up being a serial killer... Can someone say therapy?
- 3 years ago
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Kati_kat
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LuxXxus
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oh my god! this is so unbelievable! what are the parents of this 7 year old boy like?
- 3 years ago
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LuxXxus
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Bood
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What the hell is wrong with this kid?! When I was 7 I was scared as hell to even go NEAR a lizard! 7 year old are not dumb. They know right from wrong and understand their actions. He must have had/is having one twisted childhood.
- 3 years ago
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Bood
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Kentworth
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Thats horrible! This kid needs some serious counseling fast.
- 3 years ago
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