Judy hates it when people are on government assistance anyway.
What was she trying to do, grab a lion cub so she can climb on a rock and then hold it out to show all the other zoo animals?!
I hope zoos communicate problems like this with each other. I’d hate to have her decide to take her act on the road now that the Bronx Zoo is on the lookout for her… (never mind, that’d take a level of foresight that she clearly doesn’t possess).
She was throwing money at the animals. I think it’s safe to say that her actions were not the result of any sane or comprehensible thought process.
That WAG is justified. I’ve seen at least one episode in which unrelated criminal acts came to light in her court and she announced that she would pass the information along to the relevant authorities.
I don’t think it’s that clear. She announced on social media that she was going to do this, and then was filmed doing it. I wouldn’t doubt that there is something wrong with her, but I also think there was a degree of calculated self-promotion.
It’s like the guys who climb up the side of a building and film themselves doing it. There is probably something wrong with a person who chooses to do that, but they are also trying to become famous in the process.
Autry allegedly shared videos of herself climbing over the wooden fence on the day of the incident, then waving and dancing once inside as the big cat gawked.
In the video, the lion appears stunned, and the woman seems unbothered, even as the animal takes a few steps toward her.
“I want to get closer to him,” the woman says in the video as she climbs over the wooden fence. “Baby! Hi, I love you!” she mumbles as she waves before later breaking into a little dance.
After her encounter with the lion, the woman posted a photo of herself with police officers on Instagram.
That sounds more like a person who is desperate for fame than a person suffering a mental breakdown. Though I’m not totally ruling that out, given this bit from the first incident:
After 2019’s incidents, Autry said in a rambling, 15-minute session outside a courthouse that her reasoning for jumping into the lion’s den was “a lot more spiritual” and that she was never afraid while she was in there.
“I fear nobody. No animal, no human, no one. So no, I wasn’t fearing of the lion because the lion loved me. That’s why he came to me and I let the lion know: Lion, I love you,” Autry said, and later referenced “reincarnation.”
So I dunno, probably a mix of both.
The lion being already well fed probably worked in her favor.
I honestly don’t understand people who do useless, silly and often dangerous things in order to become some level of famous. It’s like they don’t exist if people aren’t noticing them. I am so far in the other direction that I just can’t imagine what that must feel like.
Performance art?
I have no opinion on whether or not performance art is “the result of any sane or comprehensible thought process.”
I don’t get it, either. People who do stupid stuff to get noticed are like ads. I sort of see them, but forget them immediately.
Say I read about “some clodhopper down in Griffith, Indiana” who swallowed a yo-yo, and I go “that’s dumb” and immediately move on. Nice effort, though, whoever you were, clodhopper.
Amen, brother. This board is by far my largest online presence and I don’t give a damn if anyone notices my name or not. I have no illusions that anyone has any interest in what I’ve had for lunch or whose performance I am attending.
I’d wonder momentarily how he’d managed it and then, as you, moved on with my life.
Like paying hundreds of dollars to see an artist you love but then hitting them in the face with your cell phone. Now you’re kicked out of the show you paid to see, you’re almost certainly looking at legal problems and, to top it all off, you’re probably going to have to buy a new phone.
And if it goes viral, you’ll probably lose your job.
A new show on A&E is bringing more attention to them.
That’s how I knew about Ms. Autry.
The article says she wasn’t actually in the lion’s enclosure, only in an adjacent area. Whether she realized this isn’t clear.
I’m with you, brother. Part of what makes walking my dogs successful is if none of the neighbors try to talk to me. If I walk through a crowded room with no one noticing me—win! Plus, I make it a policy not to annoy enormous predators.
Zoo animals are famous for never having any spending money. She probably just wanted to make sure the lion could afford some small luxuries.
Swallowing it is easy. The hard part is keeping it down.
Witty! 
Yup. I had a Facebook account that I never used. I created the account to, well just see what this was all about years ago. Then I started getting emails from people that I might have gone to High School with over 40 years ago. I get ‘pinged’.
Um, no. Deleted my Facebook account. Never on Twitter either. Or anywhere else but here because you folks are smart (the random oddballs don’t last)
Do you think she might be lion about this? 
Go to your room and think about what you’ve done. 
Thanks, but I feel like there’s a better “swallowing a yo-yo” joke if I had more time to work on it.