# Untamed and uncut **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957 "2008-11-22T04:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/1 "2008-11-22T04:00:06Z")
I’ve been watching Animal Planet’s Untamed and Uncut - Videos of human animal reactions that go very wrong. In about half the instances, the problem occurs because of the stone dumb stuff people do. “Hey, Einstein. Yeah you, the one who just tried to feed a shark/moray eel/crocodile. What the hell do you think is going to happen when you put your hand in a wild carnivore’s mouth?” ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/2 "2008-11-22T04:04:18Z")
> [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](#): > > Untamed and Uncut Porn name! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/3 "2008-11-22T04:04:44Z")
Considering that the iconic “wildlife entertainer” made an illustrious career out of fucking with animals until he was killed by one, I can’t say I’m surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/4 "2008-11-22T04:08:21Z")
Man, I thought for sure this would be about that TLC Tugger cone thing that always popped up in Google Ads on here. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/5 "2008-11-22T04:54:24Z")
“Go ahead, blow in his face. He’s really quite tame.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/6 "2008-11-22T12:49:06Z")
> [@Uvula\_Donor](#): > > “Go ahead, blow in his face. He’s really quite tame.” Money shot! ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/7 "2008-11-22T23:15:33Z")
I agree. I remember watching something on TV recently about a woman who climbed over **two** fences or something to get closer to a polar bear’s cage to get a better shot, and the polar bear ended up grabbing her and biting her leg. Next time lady, tie a salmon around your neck or something, put on a splash of “Musk of Sealion”, and try to give it a kiss. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/8 "2008-11-22T23:55:16Z")
I’d love to see video of [this](http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/22/panda.bites.man.china.ap/index.html). The only way that could be made better is if ‘clinging to life’ was somehow attached to the student. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/9 "2008-11-23T01:39:30Z")
Wasn’t there a Simpsons reference to a show like this. Something like _Fast Animals, Slow People_. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/10 "2008-11-23T01:53:44Z")
It was _Family Guy_ and it was called [Fast Animals Slow Children](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLFdRXWBIVE). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/11 "2008-11-23T02:16:21Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > It was _Family Guy_ and it was called [Fast Animals Slow Children](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLFdRXWBIVE). Yes, thank you for the reminder. _Family Guy_ was rather prophetic, I see. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/12 "2008-11-23T03:18:25Z")
I don’t really get what is being pitted here - the show? Stupid humans? Panda bears? (This reminds me of that old joke - you don’t have to be faster than bears when you’re hiking, you just have to be faster than your buddies. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/13 "2008-11-23T11:45:25Z")
> [@Maui\_Lion](#): > > I agree. I remember watching something on TV recently about a woman who climbed over **two** fences or something to get closer to a polar bear’s cage to get a better shot, and the polar bear ended up grabbing her and biting her leg. Worse than that, the animal is usually required to be destroyed (for following its instincts). Seems to me that it ought to be rewarded for improving the human gene pool by removing some of the stupid ones. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/14 "2008-11-23T19:55:56Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’d love to see video of [this](http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/22/panda.bites.man.china.ap/index.html). > > The only way that could be made better is if ‘clinging to life’ was somehow attached to the student. I like that the park employee who was interviewed at least has some common sense: > [@](#): > > “We cannot make it like a prison. We already have signs up warning people not to climb in,” he said. “There are no fences along roads but people know not to cross if there are cars. This is basic knowledge.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/15 "2008-11-23T20:54:04Z")
> [@Maui\_Lion](#): > > I agree. I remember watching something on TV recently about a woman who climbed over **two** fences or something to get closer to a polar bear’s cage to get a better shot, and the polar bear ended up grabbing her and biting her leg. And, just this past week, someone climbed into a panda cage in an Asian zoo to “give him a hug, because he is so cuddly.” The panda was not so accomodating, biting the guy on the arms and face. Can’t locate the link, alas. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/16 "2008-11-23T22:12:53Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Considering that the iconic “wildlife entertainer” made an illustrious career out of fucking with animals until he was killed by one, I can’t say I’m surprised. Although that was a freak accident, doing something that people do all the time. Maybe they shouldn’t, but they do and it normally doesn’t cause trouble. It was a one-in-a-million chance. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/17 "2008-11-24T17:22:53Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Worse than that, the animal is usually required to be destroyed (for following its instincts). Seems to me that it ought to be rewarded for improving the human gene pool by removing some of the stupid ones. Ugh. This reminds me of an incident where some brat climbed into a meerkat enclosure and was promtly attacked. The zoo ended up destroying all the meerkats because the parents didn’t want their kid to go through rabies vaccinations (if I recall correctly). ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/18 "2008-11-25T15:11:04Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Ugh. This reminds me of an incident where some brat climbed into a meerkat enclosure and was promtly attacked. The zoo ended up destroying all the meerkats because the parents didn’t want their kid to go through rabies vaccinations (if I recall correctly). You do recall correctly. Here’s a [link](http://wcco.com/topstories/meerkats.Minnesota.Zoo.2.360637.html) to that story. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/19 "2008-11-26T19:34:35Z")
> [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](#): > > You do recall correctly. Here’s a [link](http://wcco.com/topstories/meerkats.Minnesota.Zoo.2.360637.html) to that story. Well, that just makes me mad. Here was a great learning opportunity for these parents and their nine-year-old (you stick your hands where they don’t belong, you get needles. Get it?), and instead, they cause the death of animals who weren’t doing anything that you couldn’t expect them to do. Consequence-free parenting! It’s what all the cool kids are doing! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957/20 "2008-11-26T21:19:11Z")
And it doesn’t even make sense! How would killing all the animals after the attack prevent them from having given rabies to the kid during the attack, if they were in fact rabid? Was killing them the only way to test them for rabies? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untamed-and-uncut/473957.md?page=2)