shantih:
That must have been one hell of an important, irreplaceable hat to be worth risking her life or horrific injury for. Perhaps that hat saved her whole family from a burning building once. Or possibly that hat donated the kidney that saved her infant’s life. Maybe that hat had just figured out how to cure and prevent all cancer and they had come to the zoo to celebrate on their way to deliver the key research to the relevant facility.
I don’t want to scold anyone, but we should reserve our judgement until all the facts about this hat come in.
Spoken like a true Doper.
Wait a minute…
A. She didn’t die,
and
B. There was a fence separating her from the tiger
???
Slow news day. She is more qualified for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than for the Darwin Awards.
Newsflash! Darwin Awards Nominee: **handsomeharry **Drives by Zoo, Rolls Down Window Less 200 ft. from Unleashed Tiger! *
handsomeharry:
Wait a minute…
A. She didn’t die,
and
B. There was a fence separating her from the tiger
???
Slow news day. She is more qualified for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than for the Darwin Awards.
Newsflash! Darwin Awards Nominee: **handsomeharry **Drives by Zoo, Rolls Down Window Less 200 ft. from Unleashed Tiger! *
Better yet:
Newsflash! Darwin Awards Nominee: Woman Comes Nowhere Near Death! Her Situation Would Have Been Scary, Had She Been in Danger!
To me it looked like she hopped into a maintenance path. The protective fence is only there to prevent Darwin award winners from sticking their hands in the cage to touch the tiger. If the tiger was able to get outside of the first fence, it would be free to go on a tiger rampage.
Baker:
There was the Australian tourist who was chomped by a polar bear at the Anchorage zoo, in 1994
Polar Bear Zoo Attack - YouTube And ad runs first, but it’s one of the better videos of this incident, with explantions on what happened.
She got too close to the cage to take a picture. It was an idiotic thing to do, but she partailly redeemed herself afterwards by taking all the blame, saying she’d been stupid to think that just because the bear looked asleep that things would be okay.
This was national news back when. Later on there was film of the bear carrying her shoe around in his cage. A local Ford dealer had an ad with two polar bears, one carrying a shoe, and the other saying “I said I wanted a Taurus , not a tourist !” And there as a parody of the song “All That She Wants”, that went “All Binky wants, is another tourist, to munch a little…”
Binky was a favorite in Anchorage, and the tourist got zero sympathy. The zoo started selling T-shirts with a photo of Binky and the sneaker that said: Please send more tourists; the last one got away!"