This Is Why You Don’t Tap On The Glass At Zoos—Silverback Gorilla Attacks


Gorillas in captivity can grow up to 600-pounds of pure muscle. This is not an animal you want to antagonize by pounding on the glass of their sanctuary. One of these kids missed the memo on that, because they took to beating on the glass, and then around :05 in the video you can hear one child telling the other not to beat their chest. It was too late, the gorilla had taken offense, and things were about to get hairy. And I definitely do NOT envy that dad having to clean up not only the diapers of those two kids, but his own soiled pantaloons after that gorilla charged and shattered the glass.

If a U.S. Presidential candidate were to emerge today and run their campaign on the slogan ‘don’t tap on the glass’, well, I’d vote for them in a heartbeat. Choosing between candidates is just like ‘South Park’, you’re deciding between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. So why not choose the candidate willing to run on a platform of getting people to stop harassing animals so powerful they can shatter the thickest glass humans can make? Wouldn’t that at least make our country safer?

Let’s watch the action once more in GIF while we ponder which candidate is more likely come out in favor of or against glass tapping:

Pants.
Were.
Shat.

All this is quite different from the video I shot a few years back at the Bronx Zoo. I was in the right place at the right time:

[Reddit]