Boy, 7, breaks into zoo, feeds animals to croc

[meegbear]

Source: MSNBC

A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday.

The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo's security camera, happened early Wednesday after the boy jumped a security fence at the Alice Springs Reptile Center in central Australia, said zoo director Rex Neindorf.

The child then went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to "Terry," an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile, said Neindorf.

The boy also fed several live animals to Terry by throwing them over the two fences surrounding the crocodile's enclosure, at one point climbing over the outer fence to get closer to the giant reptile.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27005221/

[countingbluecars]

1. This is so very disturbing.

That is a very sick child.

[Runcible Spoon]

2. what a fucking little monster.

I am more inclined to think that bad behavior comes from bad socialization and parental practices, but in this case this might be a true natural born psychopath. :scared:

[ogneopasno]

3. That poor kid...I hope he gets the help he clearly needs.

nt

[Lorien]

11. If he doesn't, I'd hate to think of what he'll be doing in ten years

:scared:

[YOY]

4. That kid doesn't just have issues...he has a whole subscription.

How vile!

[Connie_Corleone]

5. Future serial killer.

What the hell was he doing out by himself?

[Kolesar]

9. Is that Paul Newman? eom

[Connie_Corleone]

28. Yes.

[Mist]

6. What a twisted little fuck. What kind of parents produce such a kid? nt

[YOY]

10. It's not always the parents.

Jeffrey Dahmner's parents were and still are nice folks by all accounts.

[mopinko]

32. unlucky ones

they could have twisted the kid, but the kid could just be brain damaged.

[my2sense]

7. Just dayum - this is one twisted child

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. either that kid is a future sociopath or he is being abused badly

either way its not good

[madmom]

12. Why was a seven year old out by himself long enough to do all this?

This IS poor parenting, they should have at the very least known where he was even if they weren't with him, which IMO they should have been!

[bedazzled]

30. boy, you've got THAT right

my son's almost 11, and he doesn't wander around by
himself.

child neglect, definitely

[niceypoo]

13. Aussie boy breaks into zoo, feeds animals to croc

Source: Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia---- A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday.

The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo's security camera, happened early Wednesday after the boy jumped a security fence at the Alice Springs Reptile Center in central Australia, said zoo director Rex Neindorf.

The child went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to ''Terry,'' an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile, said Neindorf.

The boy also fed several live animals to Terry by throwing them over the two fences surrounding the crocodile's enclosure, at one point climbing over the outer fence to get closer to the giant reptile.

Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1200413,zoo100308.article

[hlthe2b]

14. Just when I think I've heard all I can bear.... more cruelty ...

In a 7 year old? Geebus.... I am speechless.

[rocktivity]

20. Ninety-six percent of serial killers were involved in either animal torture

fire-setting, or chronic bedwetting as children.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Ian David]

15. I didn't know there were Young Republicans in Australia! Crikey! n/t

[hlthe2b]

18. Maybe he'll be haunted by...

the ghost of Steve Irwin..... I'm aghast that there is nothing at all they can do for/to the kid... He'll be a sociopath, that's for sure.

[barbtries]

16. 7 years old

they ought to get a team together to monitor him through to adulthood. it doesn't look good.

[orwell]

17. Sounds like a young George Bush...

...f'ing terrible.

The kid needs some serious help.

[Doctor_J]

24. Yup. He'll be either a serial killer or president some day

:cry:

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Sounds like he's related to *.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Future serial killer of humans. Too bad we don't kow how to fix this stuff yet

[Coventina]

22. This kid needs to be locked up & a hard look given at the parents

Usually kids of this age are full of empathy for animals.

Either this kid has been seriously abused and/or his wiring is bad.

He truly is a menace to society & the whole planet.

on edit: grammar

[PassingFair]

23. Here's a pic of the little perp:

:hide:

[Doctor_J]

25. Too bad the croc didn't get close enough to the perp to remove

him from the gene pool

[Coventina]

26. That thought crossed my mind.

Maybe in his final moments he would have realized the pain & terror he had been inflicting...

[LeftishBrit]

27. Wow.

This child needs serious psychiatric help NOW, or he may end up murdering someone. He must have some major problems - and of a sort that make him very dangerous to others as well as himself. And as others have said, why didn't his parents supervise him better?

[The Stranger]

29. Why do people keep breaking into zoos to kill animals?

First the drunk criminals in San Francisco, and now a 7-year old in Australia?

Is there some bizarre tendency to destroy them because some of these animals are becoming so rare?

[Javaman]

31. Well now, sounds like a Hannibal Lector in training. nt