Went to one of those smaller wildlife parks where you can walk through some of the enclosures. There was an open air monkey exhibit small monkeys, maybe squirrel monkeys or something similar and visitors could get pretty close (not supposed to touch them, obviously, but no glass or major barrier).
There was a kid in the group who kept running around, yelling, trying to chase the monkeys, clapping loudly, and even throwing bits of mulch at them when his parents weren’t looking. Park staff warned him once, but the parents just kind of brushed it off.
A few minutes later, one of the monkeys climbed up on a branch, turned around, and launched a handful of poop direct hit. Got the kid right in the neck and shoulder. He screamed, started crying, and the parents freaked out.
I laughed. Not a polite chuckle a full laugh. I didn’t say anything, but the mom glared at me and called me disgusting for “thinking it’s funny when a child gets assaulted by an animal.”
I didn’t respond, but honestly, what did they expect? The kid was literally antagonizing the monkeys.
My friend thinks I should’ve just kept my reaction to myself, but I don’t feel that bad. AITAH?
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Yeah, that’s funny. NTA
NTA. How could you not laugh under the circumstances?
NTA. The kid fucked around and found out.
Maybe a tiny bit A, but I’d have laughed too.
NTA, kid deserved it.
I remember being at the same type of open zoo, where an obnoxious little kid thought it’d be cool to slap a swan right on the beak.
The swan eyed the kid up and pecked the little fucker right on the arm. The look of consternation and confusion on the kids face before he started bawling was quite hilarious 😂😂😂
Every day is a school day..
You kidding? That is the absolute optimum moment to laugh.
Don’t you hate it when people are like “why did you laugh?”
It’s a reflex dude I’m not willing it into existence to hurt feelings
NTA! When something is funny, you laugh! 😂
If that was my kid I’d laugh too
Whether or not that kid deserves it, and it sounds like he totally did…. Yeah, YTA a bit. One person being a jerk doesn’t justify you being a jerk. Celebrate that stuff internally.
Probably would have laughed too, NTA.
NTA I laughed just reading the title so who am I to judge
Funny? Absolutely not.
That would be a priceless bit of sidesplitting hilarity. 😐😁😐
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Nta. That’s 100% the correct response.
NTA
That’s hilarious. Both him and his parents learned a thing or two that day!
But anyways, how do we know:
I have a little kid, and while she would never throw things at an animal, if she did, and she didn’t listen to us to stop, I’d laugh too if she got hit by monkey poop. NTA, but the parents kinda sucked.
😂🤣. NTA. The little shit deserved a little shit.
Thanks for the laughs.
61F, I would have 😂😂😂 so damn hard.
Nope.
NTA. I wouldve laughed harder after the mom said “assaulted by an animal”
I laughed just reading the title of your post.
Parents were warned. They should have stopped their child. It’s their own fault.
NTA.
You are only the AH for not catching this on your phone and sharing with the class 🤣
I mean the kid was throwing shit first🤷♀️🤷♀️ not literally but money still has the right to throw shit back, and as bystanders it’s your job to laugh when a monkey does something hilarious. NTA I’d probably be pissing myself laughing even if it was my own kid lol
If the kid wasn’t being an AH then it would be a jerk move, as you described? Not the AH.
You are the asshole. Not for laughing, cause that was funny, but for not saying…”Your kids was antagonizing those monkeys and asking for it and you’re supposed to be a parent and teach the kid right from wrong “
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Not as disgusting as a kid trying to assault the animals.
Toronto Zoo. Early 2000s. We are at the Chimpanzee exhibit and one of them starts whacking off.
I snorted. Giggled. Then doubled over laughing. Most of the men laughed with me but a few of the moms gave me dirty looks. One hurried her son away saying “No! That is NOT natural!”
Oh… but it is.
Actions, meet consequences. NTA
That’s fucking hilarious
My first year teaching I went with my class of first graders to the zoo. One of my uncooperative students wandered away from his chaperone, so I hastily went looking for him. I found him throwing sticks, straw, and maybe a few stones at the elephants in their enclosure.
I instantly reprimanded the kid, but the elephant exacted his own revenge. The elephant picked up a huge pile of straw and manure, and threw it on the child. Luckily the mixture was rather dry, due to being mixed with the straw.
My laughter was spontaneous, but I quit and helped the child brush himself off. I still remember the angry look on the little boy’s face. I don’t think that he had ever experienced consequences before for his various misdeeds.
After we got back to school and the children went home, I told his kindergarten teacher what had happened and we laughed together at the elephant justice.
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