Killing animals that attack humans

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

I was just reading an article this morning about a man who was killed in a great white shark attack off the coast of New Zealand. After the guy had been killed, police went into the water and shot the shark. It's a very rare attack on a popular beach, but it got me thinking. We seem to do this with any animal attack against humans. In the documentary Grizzly Man, the bear that attacked and killed Timothy Treadwell was shot later on. It seems with alligator or crocodile attacks, it's the same thing. In pretty much any wild animal attack against humans, someone is sent out to find and kill the culprit.

I'm just wondering why this is. Humans are probably the most invasive creatures on the face of the planet, and it does seem as though a lot of the people who get killed in these attacks are people who are just asking for trouble and don't really have any respect for boundaries. After all, grizzly bears and alligators and great white sharks are predators, and if you think you can just trespass on the territories of dangerous wild animals, then you should expect some bad consequences. As sad as it all may be for the people involved, the animals seem to be just doing what is natural for them in their own habitat and it tends to be, for the most part, arrogance that gets these people killed.

Unless I'm missing something here. Is there some other possibly valid reason for this?

Some kind of revenge I suppose. Makes very little sense. Then again, humans make very little sense. I'm a human and I dont even understand us. A lot of the time I am ashamed to be human.

If we killed every human that attacked an animal??? (Wouldnt that be sweet lol)

At least this shark was probably just hungry. We kill for beauty, cosmetics, drugs, clothing, sport... the list is endless. And we dont stop at killing. We keep bears locked in cages all their lives with permanent open wounds so we can have some kind of funny sh1t oil? (only last week a mother bear who was being kept in these conditions actually killed herself and her cub when she heard him screaming as some guys punched a hole in his abdomen), we skin animals alive for fur, electrocute them up the "ss, boil live lobster and crab, throw male chicks into industrial blenders, drown puppies and kittens, feast on suckling pig and dont even get me started on foie gras Then there's the greyhounds who have their ears cut off so their syndicates cannot be identified, and the youths who throw dogs on bonfires or tie bangers to cats tails. Now we are back to live export of cattle to be slaughtered "halal" ie to be suspended and have their throats cut.

But yes, a hungry shark attacks someone silly enough to swim in his environment...and its war

Wattle wrote: »

Some of them just take the piss though. Like wasps won't leave you alone if your just trying to have a nice picnic in the open air. They want to eat your jam sandwiches and if you refuse they sting you. Very bad manners.

:D

The bear who ate Timothy Treadwell should've been given a medal and a parade.

Nothing attacks its prey with more ferociousness then the seaweed shark. The struggle...is soon over.