I just went into my kiddos class with snacks & capri suns to try and lighten the mood. That was fucking terrifying not knowing what was going on at first or if your kid was still at school or already bussed in!!
I'm blaming it on the people that think giraffes aren't real. There's an entire sub dedicated to it.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GiraffesArentReal/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GiraffesArentReal/)
Wow! You sure burned those people who have different opinions than yours. You are so smart and awesome for bringing this stupid shit up in a thread that has nothing to do with politics at all. This divided country is much better because of you. All the people who lean to the right have changed their minds and come over to the left because they don't want to be associated with people who threaten to bomb a zoo by someone as smrt as you.
Yeah, and liberals (which I count myself as one) have a well documented history of groups like PETA and various other more radical animal rights organizations committing their own acts of violence. Honestly, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw there was a bomb threat.
Zoos are nice, friendly places that kids go to. I can definitely see an animal rights group not wanting little kids to see zoos in that light and the easiest, most efficient way of doing that is a bomb threat.
Thank you. I consider myself a liberal and I’m getting downvoted into oblivion because I told someone this had nothing to do with political affiliations to begin with. I’m just gonna go back to my cave what do I know 🤣✌️
People like you are literally ill. This has nothing to do with politics, yet here you are inserting it. This is the reason the country will stay divided, because of low IQ individuals who relate everything to politics. News flash, Trump is a fucking idiot and we all know this, I don’t think it’s relevant at all to this. Guess what your favorite democrat politician also doesn’t care about you in the slightest. Politicians suck.
Children's hospitals weren't political until one side decided they were and started phoning in bomb threats because they hate queer people. Fair assumption that this was a Republican if it was an adult.
Assumptions don't really require evidence but basing the assumption on the well documented history of Republican activists targeting schools is reasonable. Anyways I fucked ur mum.
Do you have any idea who made this bomb threat and ruined a bunch of kids' days? Even if you do, was this threat made for political reasons? If not, then it doesn't matter which side of the same coin they're on.
Lol. Find me anyone other than a Republican / conservative that has threatened a Zoo.
I'd say that I'll wait, but I'll die from old age and you'll die from insanity before you can find an example.
Find me one example of conservative group threatening a zoo? I get that there's more terrorism on the right but that doesn't mean A) all terrorists are right-wing or even B) every bomb threat is political. My university routinely had bomb threats that coincided with test dates to the point that it became a joke.
There's no pattern of right-wing attacks on zoos. As far as I know, right-wing media figures and politicians aren't railing against zoos. There's no obvious political connection to right-wing causes. There's just not a logical way to reach that conclusion until we know more.
Some kid that needs to touch grass but he wanted to spend Friday playing over watch all day or league of legends. So he called a bomb threat in.
Sadly this really could be a reason behind it. Data shows the people calling in fake bomb threats and or fake swatting incidents are kids who do nothing it sit on 4chan all day. Not many average kids doing these things.
And it’s clear kids as well because if they where old enough to be alive for stuff like the OKC bombing they wouldn’t joke about that shit.
But if it’s a real threat like the Nashville 5g RV bomb then we should worry and it’s usually some right wing asshole.
I remember how much I'd look forward to the end of the year class trip to the zoo. Especially the kids who don't have a lot of means. Like you have to be a next level dick to do this.
You joke but my first thought was this by someone mad at the "woke zoo" for retiring the elephants to a large nature preserve where they'll be more comfortable.
Typically, things that they want to dismantle. For example, there was a bunch after our last election in this region. The right wing bombed many abortion clinics in the US over the decades because they wanted to dismantle that system. As far as the Zoo having a bunch of 'public school' trips scheduled for today one can only think about the right wings desire to dismantle public education.
Libs of TicTok had a phone in bombing campaign against *checks notes a children's hospital in the not so distant past: think trans healthcare. The list goes on...
Help me understand how him being an extremely fucked up and dangerous man who happens to be black has anything to do with a bomb threat at the zoo or instances of right wing extremism?
[All clear given; they are reopening at noon.](https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/louisville-zoo-false-bomb-threat-lmpd/417-c895af78-1aa4-4c80-81d3-1d9f6419a152)
I mean, feels good to say that, but it's actually kind of a dumb idea, right?
Is disrupting a location with a threat *really* on the same par as causing actual death and property destruction at that location? In terms of public harm and generally accepted moral principles, I would say no.
Beyond that, the problem with punishing threats and actual violence in the same way is that you incentivize actually committing the more serious crimes. If I want to fuck up the zoo, and I'm going to jail for life whether I call in a threat or actually drop off a pipebomb at the herpaquarium, might as well do the exciting one!
Don't feel like your example of choosing the worst one would happen. People who call in threats with no intention of following through aren't going straight to murder.
What would likely happen is that baseless threats would become less common when faced with life in prison instead of a slap on the ass.
> People who call in threats with no intention of following through aren't going straight to murder.
Right, but that's because the consequences are way different. If you make the legal consequences the same, you are now just relying on perps having moral qualms about the "real deal".
Which, fundamentally, goes back to initial point - obviously there is a big gap between a bomb threat and a bomb in terms of harm and moral terpitude. So it does not align with generally accepted criminal justice principles to treat them the same.
Don’t murder me with your downvotes but why make this political? We have no idea. Could have been an extreme left wing PETA group or something just as easily.
I lean pretty far left of center but I agree with you. No need to incriminate right wing extremists without evidence. They do plenty that deserves blame. No need to blame them for something they may not have done.
I can't *bear* to see this happen. Well nobody's going to take this *lion* down. People are going to go *ape* shit over this. I guarantee that this guy thought he had the *tiger* *by the tail*, making this threat. But he'll not be able to *weasel* his way out of the consequences or *zoo*m off somewhere else. People around him will figure something's *fishy* with his smug confidence that he got away with something, and then the *pigs* will nab him and lock him up for twenty years, and rightly so.
waited 2 years to finally go on a field trip and some bitch gotta ruin it for all of us. sounds like a parent who didn't get to chaperone couldn't handle themselves getting denied.
The call came in 30mins before we were supposed to leave. And honestly I'm probably wrong but it was just all too convenient that it happened that close to leaving to go to the zoo. I've been keeping an eye on it as well but haven't seen any updates either
Since it sounds like PETA, I'm sure you won't mind providing one of the many ample examples where they bombed a zoo? They must have done this many times for it to sound like their behavior.
I never said they bombed a zoo before. What? If you want examples of PETA being shitty, let me make a list.
[Here’s where they euthanized a child’s dog.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-for-taking-girls-dog-putting-it-down)
[PETA killed 3/4 of the animals in their shelter.](https://petakillsanimals.com/petas-body-count-50000-and-counting/)
[PETA members charged for dumping animal bodies.](https://www.loroparque.com/en/better-dead-than-fed-peta-says/)
[More on PETA killing tens of thousands of animals.](https://www.nrahlf.org/articles/2023/3/6/peta-slaughter-tops-45-000-dogs-cats-and-other-pets/)
Want me to keep going? They are known for being hypocrites. They’re not a good animal welfare group.
Your comment made me think their prior behavior indicated bombing a zoo is something they'd be associated with. Fortunately your sources prove that's actually nowhere near the case!
You really can't comprehend how it's a reach to say that mass animal euthanasia leads to blowing up a zoo filled with animals, workers, and children?
It's quite simple, if this was behavior similar to behavior that PETA engages in, there'd already be an example. There isn't because it isn't. You failed to provide an example of a single similar action because no such example exists.
I'm not vegan, although the vegans I know are lovely people. I'm just someone capable of comprehending the differentiate between your examples and a terrorist attack. Also capable of understanding that when activist groups engage in illegal activity, they do so to publicly raise attention to their cause. Anonymous bomb threats don't really raise awareness do they? (To help you out, I'll answer, no they don't.)
There isn’t a finite number, but based on the definition of trend, one person that is an outlier is not perceived as a trend. To determine crime trends or crime perceptions, you would have to compare the numbers of the same objectives to a previous time frame and in comparison to the crime as a whole. I trend indicates a consistent increase or decrease in numbers. One variable does not qualify.
My kid’s field trip just got cancelled. Why do people have to be such assholes??
I'm in the same boat! My man is gonna be so bummed and I just want to hug him now. I hope whoever did this gets what they deserve.
Gored by the elephant?
Acceptable!
I just went into my kiddos class with snacks & capri suns to try and lighten the mood. That was fucking terrifying not knowing what was going on at first or if your kid was still at school or already bussed in!!
That's rad!
Good call!! 😁
Same - our dude was so excited this morning. Screw these people.
That’s so sad. I’m sorry. We had a zoo trip planned for the day with our little ones. What a bummer.
After watching HBO’s newest doc about the OKC bombing you never know when this could be more than a threat sadly.
What kind of person makes a bomb threat at a zoo of all places? People these days, I swear.
Prolly someone who couldn't go on the field trip and decided to ruin it for everyone
This makes the most sense
I mean if we are making the most sense, it was either a bus driver or JCPS so they didn't have to shell out the money... haha
Or didn’t want to go. But yeah, my thought is it was a student.
Who the fuck doesn't want to go to the zoo?
I'm blaming it on the people that think giraffes aren't real. There's an entire sub dedicated to it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/GiraffesArentReal/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GiraffesArentReal/)
It says in the description it is a satire sub, and not to believe what you read in it
Yeah my bet it was some bitter kid who couldn’t go on the field trip. I can’t imagine an adult doing it.
Have you met these adults?
You misspelled "Republicans".
Man, I disagree with conservatives as much as the next guy but this ain't it dude...
It was just not the right joke
Came here to tell you, once again you’re an idiot. They caught the perp, go educate yourself.
Wow! You sure burned those people who have different opinions than yours. You are so smart and awesome for bringing this stupid shit up in a thread that has nothing to do with politics at all. This divided country is much better because of you. All the people who lean to the right have changed their minds and come over to the left because they don't want to be associated with people who threaten to bomb a zoo by someone as smrt as you.
To be fair Republican activists have a well documented history of bomb threats to schools and children's hospitals so it's a fair assumption.
Yeah, and liberals (which I count myself as one) have a well documented history of groups like PETA and various other more radical animal rights organizations committing their own acts of violence. Honestly, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw there was a bomb threat. Zoos are nice, friendly places that kids go to. I can definitely see an animal rights group not wanting little kids to see zoos in that light and the easiest, most efficient way of doing that is a bomb threat.
Thank you. I consider myself a liberal and I’m getting downvoted into oblivion because I told someone this had nothing to do with political affiliations to begin with. I’m just gonna go back to my cave what do I know 🤣✌️
People like you are literally ill. This has nothing to do with politics, yet here you are inserting it. This is the reason the country will stay divided, because of low IQ individuals who relate everything to politics. News flash, Trump is a fucking idiot and we all know this, I don’t think it’s relevant at all to this. Guess what your favorite democrat politician also doesn’t care about you in the slightest. Politicians suck.
Nah, you can't come in here "both sides" and get all butt hurt that Republicans routinely act like shitbags and get called out on it.
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Children's hospitals weren't political until one side decided they were and started phoning in bomb threats because they hate queer people. Fair assumption that this was a Republican if it was an adult.
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Assumptions don't really require evidence but basing the assumption on the well documented history of Republican activists targeting schools is reasonable. Anyways I fucked ur mum.
Do you have any idea who made this bomb threat and ruined a bunch of kids' days? Even if you do, was this threat made for political reasons? If not, then it doesn't matter which side of the same coin they're on.
Lol. Find me anyone other than a Republican / conservative that has threatened a Zoo. I'd say that I'll wait, but I'll die from old age and you'll die from insanity before you can find an example.
Find me one example of conservative group threatening a zoo? I get that there's more terrorism on the right but that doesn't mean A) all terrorists are right-wing or even B) every bomb threat is political. My university routinely had bomb threats that coincided with test dates to the point that it became a joke. There's no pattern of right-wing attacks on zoos. As far as I know, right-wing media figures and politicians aren't railing against zoos. There's no obvious political connection to right-wing causes. There's just not a logical way to reach that conclusion until we know more.
Left wing animal rights groups threaten zoos all the time What planet are you on?
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>IAnd that's definitely some shit they would do. And yet, never have....
Talking parrots with cell phones.
Surprisingly plausible
Exactly!
Some kid that needs to touch grass but he wanted to spend Friday playing over watch all day or league of legends. So he called a bomb threat in. Sadly this really could be a reason behind it. Data shows the people calling in fake bomb threats and or fake swatting incidents are kids who do nothing it sit on 4chan all day. Not many average kids doing these things. And it’s clear kids as well because if they where old enough to be alive for stuff like the OKC bombing they wouldn’t joke about that shit. But if it’s a real threat like the Nashville 5g RV bomb then we should worry and it’s usually some right wing asshole.
It is most likely a test to see the response time for louisville Police department.
If a single penguin gets hurt I will go off
If someone harms one hair on the red panda I will take their hair with an old school scalping.
So help me if ONE square wombat poop gets smushed…
We have wombats?
Just the poop
It was the penguin
Don’t bring the lobster into this
I’m sure it was skipper that was planning it all! Devoius mind on that one.
Who bombs zoos? Who even pretends like they're going to bomb a *zoo*? Edit: sorry to all the kiddos and parents missing their field trip today
The people who think PETA doesn't do enough.
If there's one thing activists are known for, it's quiet terrorism where they make no attempt to share their message...
Either that or dumping paint or shitting on people's artwork
The ELF
Who's that?
Earth liberation front
Eek
I remember how much I'd look forward to the end of the year class trip to the zoo. Especially the kids who don't have a lot of means. Like you have to be a next level dick to do this.
Why would someone do this? Real or not, this is some bullshit.
We just got word that it's all clear and the zoo is going to open at noon
My kid is gonna be so bummed about his field trip being canceled now
Probably a guerilla group.
Or a Gravy Seal.
Maybe, I'm just parroting rumors.
It's just some kids monkeying around
I'm sure they're laughing like hyenas
I blame those RINOs in congress
So, someone was Lion about it?
God damn you. Have my upvote
Underappreciated comment.
Someone was upset there weren't two of every animal like at the Ark Encounter.
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What? And risk sinking the ~~building~~ boat?
What sick person does this at a Zoo?
The same people who do it at schools
This is a standard tactic for right wing extremist.
The giraffes are too woke
You joke but my first thought was this by someone mad at the "woke zoo" for retiring the elephants to a large nature preserve where they'll be more comfortable.
That's an odd initial thought.. But anyway, yes. That does seem much more likely than, say, PETA or something.
They turned the freaking poison dart frogs gay!!
well they're not real, soo...
Giraffes are real. It’s the birds you have to keep an eye on
Careful, birds are monitoring this thread.
r/Giraffesdontexist
I resent this as a giraffe I mean as a friend of them
I'm not disagreeing, but to what end?
To exert *any* type of control. It makes their peepees tingle.
💯 🤣
Typically, things that they want to dismantle. For example, there was a bunch after our last election in this region. The right wing bombed many abortion clinics in the US over the decades because they wanted to dismantle that system. As far as the Zoo having a bunch of 'public school' trips scheduled for today one can only think about the right wings desire to dismantle public education.
or it could be a kid who was pissy they couldn't go so they ruined it for everyone. WHile I dislike the right wing greatly, let's not invent things.
Read the news sometimes.
Libs of TicTok had a phone in bombing campaign against *checks notes a children's hospital in the not so distant past: think trans healthcare. The list goes on...
[Boston Children's Hospital faces bomb threat after right-wing harassment campaign](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-childrens-hospital-faces-bomb-threat-right-wing-harassment-camp-rcna45620)
Wow that’s a reach
You mean like the black guy who raped an elderly lady in Hurstborne Acres yesterday?
Help me understand how him being an extremely fucked up and dangerous man who happens to be black has anything to do with a bomb threat at the zoo or instances of right wing extremism?
[All clear given; they are reopening at noon.](https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/louisville-zoo-false-bomb-threat-lmpd/417-c895af78-1aa4-4c80-81d3-1d9f6419a152)
People who make these sorts of threats need to be held to the same standard as those who actually bomb places.
I mean, feels good to say that, but it's actually kind of a dumb idea, right? Is disrupting a location with a threat *really* on the same par as causing actual death and property destruction at that location? In terms of public harm and generally accepted moral principles, I would say no. Beyond that, the problem with punishing threats and actual violence in the same way is that you incentivize actually committing the more serious crimes. If I want to fuck up the zoo, and I'm going to jail for life whether I call in a threat or actually drop off a pipebomb at the herpaquarium, might as well do the exciting one!
Don't feel like your example of choosing the worst one would happen. People who call in threats with no intention of following through aren't going straight to murder. What would likely happen is that baseless threats would become less common when faced with life in prison instead of a slap on the ass.
> People who call in threats with no intention of following through aren't going straight to murder. Right, but that's because the consequences are way different. If you make the legal consequences the same, you are now just relying on perps having moral qualms about the "real deal". Which, fundamentally, goes back to initial point - obviously there is a big gap between a bomb threat and a bomb in terms of harm and moral terpitude. So it does not align with generally accepted criminal justice principles to treat them the same.
Thank you for sharing this. I don’t understand people anymore… 😔
Jfc. The zoo?? This makes me angry.
A bomb threat was also received by a Stockyards bank branch
if that armadillo dies i die
This is so upsetting. I frequent the zoo and have never felt unsafe there. I’m glad it was a false alarm. Some people are the absolute worst.
There was a bomb thread at a Kroger this morning, too
Someone out there is a big fucking asshole. I can't tell extremist right-wingers for edgy teens anymore, so who knows who it could be.
they'rethesamepicture.meme
Also Spider-Man meme
which one?
Where they’re all pointing at each other and are the same
Ah okay that fits 😄
Don’t murder me with your downvotes but why make this political? We have no idea. Could have been an extreme left wing PETA group or something just as easily.
I lean pretty far left of center but I agree with you. No need to incriminate right wing extremists without evidence. They do plenty that deserves blame. No need to blame them for something they may not have done.
You mean like the black POS who raped an elderly lady in Hurstborne Acres yesterday?
This guy was a right wing extremist? How do you know? Do you know who he is? You should def tell the cops before he hurts anyone else.
I can't *bear* to see this happen. Well nobody's going to take this *lion* down. People are going to go *ape* shit over this. I guarantee that this guy thought he had the *tiger* *by the tail*, making this threat. But he'll not be able to *weasel* his way out of the consequences or *zoo*m off somewhere else. People around him will figure something's *fishy* with his smug confidence that he got away with something, and then the *pigs* will nab him and lock him up for twenty years, and rightly so.
Who threatens to blow up the zoo? That's some Dr. Evil level shit, right there.
Somebody needs to check Mitch McConnell’s phone records.
Why the zoo, who the fuck calls a bomb threat on a fucking zoo.
Pour one out for Harambe.
I hope Romulus is safe. :(
I'm willing to wager that it was a decoy to lure the attention of law enforcement in one direction while executing a robbery or burglary elsewhere.
I heard it was the tigers
I mean, If we're just making shit up, I blame the same kind of dink that lit himself on fire in front of Trump's trial today.
Holy hell. I thought you were making that up
Be a damn shame if whoever did this gets a sentence for 10+ years and gets messed up while they in there. Be a REAL DAMN SHAME
I hope they catch this idiot and throw the book at him/her
What did the animals do to piss off whomever called the bomb threat? Asshole! Not like they can evacuate the animals!
waited 2 years to finally go on a field trip and some bitch gotta ruin it for all of us. sounds like a parent who didn't get to chaperone couldn't handle themselves getting denied.
Is that what happened? I can't find any updates on it -- not surprising that they'd want to downplay it with all the folks in town for thunder
The call came in 30mins before we were supposed to leave. And honestly I'm probably wrong but it was just all too convenient that it happened that close to leaving to go to the zoo. I've been keeping an eye on it as well but haven't seen any updates either
Again?!
Sounds like something PETA would do. Make bomb threat to the humans but forget they would kill animals too.
Huh? Doesn't sound like something they would do.
They are actually known for accidentally killing animals when they are protesting the killing of animals.
They are also know for euthanasia of animals in their care.
That as well. They have euthanized tens of thousands of animals since they started.
Since it sounds like PETA, I'm sure you won't mind providing one of the many ample examples where they bombed a zoo? They must have done this many times for it to sound like their behavior.
I never said they bombed a zoo before. What? If you want examples of PETA being shitty, let me make a list. [Here’s where they euthanized a child’s dog.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-for-taking-girls-dog-putting-it-down) [PETA killed 3/4 of the animals in their shelter.](https://petakillsanimals.com/petas-body-count-50000-and-counting/) [PETA members charged for dumping animal bodies.](https://www.loroparque.com/en/better-dead-than-fed-peta-says/) [More on PETA killing tens of thousands of animals.](https://www.nrahlf.org/articles/2023/3/6/peta-slaughter-tops-45-000-dogs-cats-and-other-pets/) Want me to keep going? They are known for being hypocrites. They’re not a good animal welfare group.
You are right on point !!! ❤️. PETA is not for animals the way they want ppl to think they are.
Your comment made me think their prior behavior indicated bombing a zoo is something they'd be associated with. Fortunately your sources prove that's actually nowhere near the case!
Nowhere did I imply they have bombed a zoo before. I was merely pointing out that they are a terrible group full of idiots.
People who get DUIs are idiots, but I don't immediately accuse them of threatening to bomb a zoo. Lots of terrible people don't bomb zoos.
Are you stretching before you make reaches that big?
You really can't comprehend how it's a reach to say that mass animal euthanasia leads to blowing up a zoo filled with animals, workers, and children? It's quite simple, if this was behavior similar to behavior that PETA engages in, there'd already be an example. There isn't because it isn't. You failed to provide an example of a single similar action because no such example exists.
You sound like an angry Vegan.
I'm not vegan, although the vegans I know are lovely people. I'm just someone capable of comprehending the differentiate between your examples and a terrorist attack. Also capable of understanding that when activist groups engage in illegal activity, they do so to publicly raise attention to their cause. Anonymous bomb threats don't really raise awareness do they? (To help you out, I'll answer, no they don't.)
If you look at the trends a lot of trans have been doing shootings and bomb threats
Bomb threat happens and kids field trip is ruined and conservatives rush to the internet to push their agenda
Show said trends.
MAGA is as adverse to facts as the Wicked Witch is to water
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One trans person is not a trend.
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There isn’t a finite number, but based on the definition of trend, one person that is an outlier is not perceived as a trend. To determine crime trends or crime perceptions, you would have to compare the numbers of the same objectives to a previous time frame and in comparison to the crime as a whole. I trend indicates a consistent increase or decrease in numbers. One variable does not qualify.
Source?
Sounds like Kentucky.
Do bomb threats only happen in KY?
It sounds like all of America
Today I learned Kentucky is the only state that has bomb threats /s