Current Events QTR 2 Week 5: 6-month-old killed by falling branch at Central Park Zoo

How would you feel if you were enjoying a sunny day at the zoo by the sea lion exhibit and then you witness a 6-month-old's death, because of a falling tree branch? This wasn't the first time this happened at the Central Park Zoo in New York. But this wasn't the first time this happened. I found like five other storys like this with deaths or injurys from a falling tree branch at that park. Baby Cianna's father was taking her picture near the sea lion exhibit when a branch above them suddenly snapped and came falling down upon them. Bystander said they heard a creaking noise, and then a scream. The mother was holding Cianna and the baby fell out of her arms. Another bystander was an intensive care nurse and she ran over an gave the baby CPR. They first felt a pulse, but while they were doing chest compressions when the pulse stopped.  The baby's mother was badly injured. The mother and baby were rushed to a near by hospital, but the baby was pronounced dead when she arrived.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/tree_limb_jXzz9SwbIqZNemXFfxQDoN

How i feel-
Oh. My. God. I would be so mad!!!! You go to enjoy a nice day at the zoo and you go home without a child? I think that zoo needs to fix that tree problem, or like make the squirrels go away or something. Maybe they should just get rid of those types of trees. I'm not sure why I'm interested in these types of stories but when i read them I get mad for those familys. I think that zoo needs to close down for a while and find out whats happening with those trees
  (baby Cianna and her mother)

Current Events QTR 2 Week 3: Florida teens charged with setting boy on fire /post 10

3 boys were accused of attempted murder because of a bet Michael Brewer did not pay. One of the boys, Bent, demanded $40 he said that Brewer had owed him, and Brewer didn't pay. Bent, who was then angered, stole Brewer's father's bicycle. Brewer told the cops, and then they arrested Bent. The next day, after Bent was released, the boya found Brewer and surrounded him. Detectives say that eyewitnesses had told them that 15-year-old Jarvis poured alcohol all over Brewer and then16-year-old Mendez got a lighter and set the boy on fire. Bent was encouraging the attack. Brewer said he ran about 100 yards to an apartment complex pool, where he quickly jumped in, to stop the flames. Brewer suffered burns on over 65 percent of his body and was in the hospital for more than two months. The three boys Denver Jarvis and Mathew Bent, both now 16, are going to jail for 10 years and have probation after wards for another 10 years and Jesus Mendez, now 17 will be going  to jail for 15 years with 10 years probation.

How I feel-
Well they deserve the prison time. Was it worth going to jail to get a $40 dollar bet? I don't think so. I think it was stupid of them to even do that, no one really gets away with committing crimes anymore. I mean even if you weren't friends anymore, but you used to be, how could you do that to someone you cared about? Well apparently they didn't care about him. They must not of cared about them selves either because if you care about yourself you wouldn't do that and know your going to jail.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/22/florida.burned.teen/index.html