Tragic news out of Cincinnati, Ohio today has reverberated around the United States quickly. The Cincinnati Zoo has euthanized the entire crowd of people that attended the park today, due to a mountain lion cub wandering out of its exhibit.

Eyewitness reports tell us that a neglectful mountain lioness lost track of one of her cubs because she was occupied with an extensive tongue bath at the time. The cub, who was named Lewis, scaled the wall of the enclosure and ended up on a main walkway of the zoo. Chaos ensued as a young woman looked down upon a terrifying scene: Lewis was depositing dangerous droppings onto her new shoes. The crowd quickly scattered and a mob scene began to take shape as people ran for their shoes' lives. One witness explained that "It looked like a dog, but like, I don't think it was a dog."

The Cincinnati zoo had only moments to react before more shoe lives were lost. The zoo elected to euthanize the rest of the visitors still running around manically at the park, seeing it as "the only solution." After the scene was considered stable, a zoo volunteer calmly picked up the cub and returned him to the enclosure.

Now there are many questions still swirling around this situation, such as: "Why wasn't the mountain lioness more watchful of her cub?" or "Who will clean this mess up?" or "Since the zoo eliminated a large portion of its demographic, who will show up now?"

It may take a while to find an answer to these questions, but one thing is for sure, everyone is thankful it wasn't as bad as it could've been.