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Jeff
10-11-2013, 12:59 PM
Whether this was staged ( which I doubt , if it was chalk one up for a terrible parent ) or not this is a true portrayal of this shut down, making the people suffer , young and old it doesn't matter , as long as King Obama gets his way. And one has to wonder , is this zoo free to visitor's or are they still paying people to take care of the animals but not collecting no revenue by selling tickets ?




A picture of a small child in a monkey costume is quickly becoming the unofficial symbol of the government shutdown.
The photo went viral after it got posted to Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1o4a4q/please_open_the_government/) and then was shared on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz) by Time magazine’s Alex Fitzpatrick, who called it “the absolute saddest #shutdown photo you will ever see.”
In the photo, the young child holds onto the locked gates of Washington's National Zoo, which is part of the federal Smithsonian Institution. Above his head is a sign that says, “The Zoo is temporarily closed.”
The zoo also attracted national attention at the beginning of the shutdown when the budget impasse prompted its popular “panda cam” to go dark (http://www.today.com/pets/panda-panic-zoo-shutdown-animal-cam-dark-8C11296292).
The Reddit user who posted the photo, superbonnie (http://www.reddit.com/user/superbonnie), said she got the picture from her friend, the child's grandmother, although the boy's father actually snapped the photograph.



http://www.today.com/news/government-shutdowns-saddest-photo-goes-viral-8C11377315