I saw a glimpse of this on the news this morning, but only saw the last few seconds of the piece. Did I see it right? Some Darwin’s award candidate climbed into a lion’s cage at the zoo? And someone videotaped it. I’ve been searching for a news article online about this but haven’t been successful so far. Has anyone found a link?
This goes into the pit because I’m sure we’ll have some choice words for the bozo. That is, unless I misheard and the guy tumbled in accidentally . . .
I’m just glad the police officer fired into the air to distract the lion, instead of killing it. Would have been a shame to see a magnificent creature like that lose its life to save some damned fool.
Although voices from God telling the would-be matador what to do sounds more like a severe mental illness than foolhardy stupidity.
Or maybe he was taking pictures of the lions, as spectators at zoos often do, and then saw dipshit climb into the cage and went, “Holy shit! Look at the moron!” and forgot that the camera was on?
Lions are entirely too intelligent to feast upon the flesh of humans, unless they are forced to do so out of ravenous hunger - but they may play with us if we wander into their territory - rather rough play, in fact! Which, unfortunately (kidding) didn’t occur in this case.
Lion: 1
Strange human: 0
Media hype turning us against the evil lions/mountain lions (different story, panther was killed): -1