and i ran up there and we tried to pull the father out. we couldn t get him out one side. he ran out around another side but the wall was ten feet so he had to jump up and grab our hands and we pulled him out. reporter: the zoo director say the cheetahs never moved toward the boy or his father. because the spectators were all screaming think cats were either scared or not interested, which is very fortunate because cheetahs or the fastest land animals on the planet and would have easily been on the father and son before they ever got back out of that closure. now many of the parents on hand were baffled the mom actually lifted her son over the fence, which is why the zoo has now filed the child endangerment chappings. three years ago, two-year-old boy in pittsburgh jumped from his mother s arms into a wild african dogs exhibit but in that case the dogs attacked and killed the boys. the parents sued the zoo. the zoo sued the parents. that case finally settled, but a lot of mystery sur