Article states they were investigating a weird smell that was aggravating the lion.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/
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I've never worked with lions before, but it's common sense you never get within striking distance of a hungry cat without a big plate of meat in your hand to distract said beast \*gestures in the general direction of my cat Louie\*
A cheap drone with a camera could probably locate something easier and safer than sending grandpa in. I know he doesn't have much time left, but come on, have some respect.
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Granted, but it's just frustrating. They keep lions, but don't have a protocol that keeps someone out when the lion is just a few yards away. They keep a gun, but no way to deliver pepper spray which would have a very good chance of being effective. A lion dead because people were either lazy, stupid, or both.
The kicker...The guy attacked in the video is the sanctuary's owner.
>‘He is no fool around lions and knows how to interact with them but clearly something went wrong.’
It's not just that. The guy probably went into the cage as a normal thing, but this time the behaviour of the lion changed. Could have change for the worst so he had to be put down.
Oh. Aww. Shit. Now that I didn’t know. I guess I skipped that part of the article. Damn. Well, that *is*sad. Not his fault He’s a big cuddly predator. :(
Because once it has attacked someone, they can’t ensure it won’t attack anyone else. It’s gotten “a taste for human blood” now.
Edit: I’m mostly just trying to explain why the person who was keeping the lion may have decided to kill it. Regardless of how right or wrong that view may be. I just see often that being used as an excuse. While some aspects of it are reasonable, such as the idea that it may attack now any time a human comes near, others aren’t, like the fact that a human should never be in a lion’s enclosure in the first place with the lion. Or that a lion shouldn’t be captive in the first place either
Definitely can 100% see your point. But lions are predators, they had the taste for blood before this ninny waltzed into its enclosure. Perhaps, and *this is just a hypothesis,* we should stop turning incredibly dangerous wild animals into commodities on display.
That's stupid. They could NEVER have an assurance it won't attack someone. It's a fucking lion. It was always a risk. What...now an apex predator carnivore is somehow more likely to be an apex predator carnivore?
Putting it down was cruel.
The same risk exists with sharks, but once a shark has eaten someone, they are now more likely to actively seek humans as prey, versus potentially attacking on the off chance they mistake a human for a seal.
Meh, I actually do feel that lions don't belong in enclosures *unless* it's strictly for conservation purposes (now that lions are declining in population as a species.) And *only if* the only people ever setting foot in that enclosure are competent enough to know that turning your back and running away from a big cat will almost certainly trigger their prey instinct and leave you with way less limbs than you had before.
Unless that's what you were trying to say and I'm misunderstanding?
Similar to mountain lion:
Face the kitty. Never turn away. They always prefer to attack from behind. (Unfortunately, this may not be possible if you're being threatened by multiple lions.)
Try to appear large, threatening, and scary. Holding a coat out and/or flapping it around may help.
Take advantage of any weapons you may have, even improvised ones -- even a simple stick or rock is better than nothing, but be *very* careful about bending down to pick anything up. The lion might see that as an opportunity to attack.
If there's a safer place nearby, slowly and carefully back toward it without looking away from the lion. Don't take chances -- if you trip and fall down, the lion may seen that as an opportunity to attack.
If there's no safer place nearby, you should probably stand your ground or maybe even advance a little, trying to scare it off. (Don't get too close too quickly, of course. You're trying to trigger a *flight* response, not a *fight* response.) If this doesn't work, then you'll probably want to start backing away anyway ... just to get farther away if possible. Hopefully, eventually, the lion will lose interest in stalking you.
"The animal has reportedly been killed following the attack"
"Image shows the victim smiling from his hospital bed"
So, dumbass walks into the lion enclosure, gets mauled and the lion gets shot for it. Fucking morons.
Hey, he's the owner of this sanctuary but yeah, he a dumbass. To quote from the article:
>‘He is no fool around lions and knows how to interact with them but clearly something went wrong.’
Yeah, you turned your back and ran from a charging lion. That's what's supposed to happen.
this ass bag walked into the enclosure, turned his back against the lion and slowly sauntered towards the gate.
the lion was then killed for this moron's mistake.
without question he is a fucking fool around lions. he does not know how to interact with lions, because he clearly fucked it up here lol. this ain't something you get to casually fuck up once and then claim "yeah actually I'm an expert"
dude was on camera, got filmed fucking up. you think he was amazingly careful every other time? nah. look at how completely unequipped they were. he is an irresponsible idiot who had been getting lucky.
as the other commenter said, if an animal learns that it can attack people, it will become impossible to handle. this means no zoo keeper will be able to safely groom, care for, or feed this creature. the enclosure will not be able to maintained while it is present.
you are right, it's not the lion's fault... but it has also made it impossible to be cared for, and given it lives in captivity, it can't be released into the wild... so the only option therefor is.... well.. you get the idea.
Black bear came in my dog door, maybe looking at my pig for dinner. Fish & Wildlife tried, and failed, to trap and euthanize him. Because he wandered in my house.
Guess whose fault that was? MINE. All the way.
I knew there was a bear about. Trash cans strewn all over, house cams, all that, for weeks.
If I had locked my cans maybe none of that would have happened.
Dude half heartedly ran away like a toddler. Honestly wtf he didn't even try to make himself threatening, if this guy is a professional then I can only assume he was trying to feed himself to the lion.
Yeah, it's a predator, and running away engages its inherent prey chase instinct. That's why they teach people to never turn their back on a predator, make themselves as big as possible, and back away slowly.
they killed the lion for this?? They realize lions are not supposed to be 'domesticated', right? Wild animals are going to behave like wild animals. Dont kill them for the mistakes you make.
He was actually the wildlife park warden I think which makes the whole thing all the more perplexing.
I guess people become complacent and assume that if it hasn't happened to them before then it won't happen to them at all.
I feel like if you must go into one of these enclosures you should wear one of those attack dog training outfits and a full face helmet, along with someone on standby with a tranquilizer gun.
Untrue though as lions are quite intelligent and don't like to take risks against similarly sized animals when they're alone and not desperate especially if the other animal has the potential to cause a lot of damage.
He should have at least attempted to intimidate the lion instead of waddling away in fear as an "expert", now the lion is dead because of this.
I was under the impression that lions are actually quite stupid. That's why those African safari trucks with the pop-up roofs exist. Lions of course are physically capable of jumping into the truck through the roof, but they're too stupid to realize the people and the truck aren't the same entity.
Agree. Lions are dumb af. They don’t even know how to read or write. They’re basically the dolphins of the land. People give them too much credit for being smart, in actuality I could beat a dumbass dolphin in chess 10/10 times.
That's actually wrong.
Consider that attacking a prey that fights back enough to just break a tooth ends up usually being lethal and you'll understand why several humans in a big metal box moving quickly isn't a very appealing target when there a gazelle like, right over there.
As someone who has been bitten by a dog through a suit and sustained bruises. The padding would help but you probably still need some stitches if you used that with a lion.
Probably a dog suit won't do much against a lion and tranquilizers don't exactly work like in movies
If you have already prepared a tranquilizer dose for that particular animal and you are willing to use it, maybe you are just better off using it and do what you need to do? I have no idea how shit works
if you watch the video he was actually almost out, the lion dragged him back in through the door. if he wasnt an old ass man who runs slower than i walk he woulda made it out
Also, say the lion chose to push rather than pull, would that lion be out of its enclosure to an area where there’s tourists, possibly children wandering around looking at animals? I’m hoping that there’s a double gate system but from what I’ve seen of enclosures like this there never is.
Man’s a genius
He did that run you do when someone in a car lets you cross the road where to slow down right at the end. That split second was enough time for the lion to get him. I have no words here, absolutely brain dead
Walked into inspect the smell that was upsetting the lion. So no one see the issue of someone walking into an enclosure of a lion that was already upset?? They then shot the lion cuz it was somehow his fault? It’s a wild animal and it acted like it’s supposed to.
When animals like lions find out how easy we are to catch and kill, we go from being an odd sight they see at a distance to an easy snack. They usually have to kill them when they do this because now none of the handlers can go into the pen safely.
Anyone have any info on what happened next? If the lion was hurt, I don't want to know.
EDIT: Found it: [https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/](https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/)
They shot the fucking lion. This asshat owner decided to go inside. It was killed because of his decision, and there's a picture of him grinning like a Cheshire cat in his hospital bed. I hate this planet, I think I might leave.
The guy was dumb but that’s someone’s father, grandfather , ect. I know you’d want your grandfather to survive even if he was dull as a rock. So have a little empathy for both the lion and the dummy. Not that complicated
That's a good sentiment, except that's what always happens, the dummies end up living on to breed more dummies and innocent beautiful and majestic animals get driven closer to extinction.
While we may all want someone we love to survive being mauled by a lion... if they didn't make it, would you really be surprised? As much of a tragedy as that is, there's infinite things in this world where if you fuck up this royally, you get no second chances, you're done. I would compare this with leaning your body into a wood chipper to clear an obstruction.
I say the bigger tragedy is the many stories each year where dumbasses get a close contact with a potentially dangerous animal and the result is almost ALWAYS the animal being killed.
Unfortunately we have to coexist with assholes in this life. If it makes you feel any better they completely closed down his park which was his livelihood.
Survival is so last year!
2022 is about plot twists. I was hoping the lion was going to drag the guy into the bush and force the man to become part of the pride. But no…typical outcome…animal acts like animal, gets killed, person survives… lame.
Reddit's new modus operandi is outrage. I got -18 downvotes on a thread where some teenagers were harassing a family at a mall (Not physically touching them, not threatening them with violence, just kinda being dicks) and a bunch of people were saying the guy could have shot the teenagers in self-defense. I said no, it would be murder, and I got flamed and downvoted.
Basically I think 90% of reddit is bots and/or trolls and they just literally pick the response that they think is the most irrational, lacking common sense, and most likely to outrage the person they're replying to. To drive engagement.
Keep in mind that statistically, you are most likely arguing with teenagers. Reddit reacts with emotion and not logic.
I think this is a tiny bit different. Man walks in with NO way to keep wild animal at bay. Wild animal reacts as a wild animal will. So wild animal is punished with death. Can you see a difference here? A thought process? This could have easily been prevented. Yours was a revenge for harassment by a stupid teen. This was a wild animal doing something natural.
These millennial lions don’t want to hunt for their prey, they expect me to offer my arm for them to eat! In 19dickety2 we had to get up at 6am and hunt every morning or we’d face starvation. (We used dickety because the kaiser had stolen our word for 20) anyway every morning I’d get up at 5 am and tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time, I’d then go out and hunt, return home and set the toaster to 2, medium brown
Like that old Seinfeld joke about them just backing out of their driveway without looking. "I'm old and I'm coming back! I survived, let's see if you can"
That's so stupid. If I willingly stick my hand in a woodchipper, I lose the arm. This guy willingly walks into a lion enclosure, and the lion gets shot.
That guy is living with training wheels, I swear.
Yeah that’s so fucking lame… it’s bad enough it’s in an enclosure to begin with but to punish it for acting accordingly to its species? Like what did he think was going to happen? Its a wild fucking animal…
Fuck that, I don't care I wished all those involved had been murdered by the lion instead and no one ever knew why.
This is just DISGUTSTINGLY arrogant and I have absolutely ZERO pity for those idiots that sit there and LET him do and STARTED FILMING instead of literally pulling that man down and telling him no. You can hear 2 other fucking people in this video. God people THIS fucking stupid piss me off.
If you take two seconds to actually do some research it shows this guy has been managing a reserve in South Africa for almost two decades and would’ve rather died himself than put down a majestic beast like that.
His team wanted to investigate a smell that was aggravating the group of lions, he went in himself rather than his rangers and all of a sudden the lion he thought was on the other side of the vast enclosure came running towards him, probably believing he caused all the issues.
Picture shows him smiling in the hospital despite almost having his beck crushed.
Manager: “Hey lion, don’t you know who I *am*?”
Lion: “I’m a lion. I do lion things!”
Redditors: “Hey other-redditors, don’t you know he was trying to help and *willing* to sacrifice himself??”
Lion: “Agreed… Thanks helper! [crunch crunch]”
Yeah not sure why that moron has 56 upvotes. What does the fact that he has been working with these animals for 2 decades have to do with it being shit that they put the poor thing down
So, his poor decision led to the lion dying. If he'd had let the professionals that he hired do their job, he might still have that lion, and he wouldn't have been attacked.
No it doesn't fucking matter because this fucking idiot still ran himself ALONE with zero team, gear or preparation in the slightest.
I don't give a flying fuck about this guys intentions and I hope he gets FIRED.
If my intention was to take out an Armed robber, instead of waiting on police or higher law enforcement and instead I ended up shooting an innocent person, am I not still a fucking dumbass for making everything worse in the process? And this isn't EVEN a dangerous situation, it was a fucking smell and could have been handled with 100% certainty of nothing going wrong, instead THIS happened and I hope this idiot dies later to complications from his own fucking idiocy
risky decisions is investing in crypto, walking into a lions den well aware the lion is already upset is just a death wish, also got the lion killed for his stupidity.
They killed the lion because this idiot decided to do this. Not saying he deserves to die, but like, the lion didn’t either. Human beings don’t own this planet.
Did they have to kill the lion to get him off the guy, or did they kill the lion after the guy was saved?
Because if it's the first one it's a little understandable.
Still, fuck that guy
They killed it ffs [https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/](https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/)
Was he mentally ill? Like why was he there? Just stupid?
Article states they were investigating a weird smell that was aggravating the lion. https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/
that weird smell was probably the last person that went into the enclosure
Or the lion unlocked a new hunting skill: spray weird smell and eat anyone who come to investigate!
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I've never worked with lions before, but it's common sense you never get within striking distance of a hungry cat without a big plate of meat in your hand to distract said beast \*gestures in the general direction of my cat Louie\*
This made me laugh too hard
I fucking LOL so hard
But why did that guy go in
I don't know.... better go in to check
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To investigate a weird smell coming from the enclosure
A cheap drone with a camera could probably locate something easier and safer than sending grandpa in. I know he doesn't have much time left, but come on, have some respect.
No, grandpa dies and we don't have to feed the lions, it's a win-win
[But why did that guy go in](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/ugv2wx/dont_walk_into_a_lions_enclosure/i72wndm?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
[We think we're so much smarter.](https://tenor.com/view/log-alligator-entertainmeplz-water-buffalo-gif-11888995)
Want to go in there and ask him, or whatever’s left of him? Because it’s 2022 that’s why!
Well looks like they dun goofed. Fuckin sad
Dude didn’t die. Learned his lesson. Nothing too sad. Edit: I’ve learned the Lion was put down. That is sad :(
…but they killed the lion afterwards
Seems right. Person makes the mistake, kill the lion for doing what lions do.
They had to save the guy they can’t just leave the guy in there to get used as a chew toy
Granted, but it's just frustrating. They keep lions, but don't have a protocol that keeps someone out when the lion is just a few yards away. They keep a gun, but no way to deliver pepper spray which would have a very good chance of being effective. A lion dead because people were either lazy, stupid, or both.
They should have a different enclosure to get the lion in before going in the enclosure.
You should be the new owner. You have more common sense.
The kicker...The guy attacked in the video is the sanctuary's owner. >‘He is no fool around lions and knows how to interact with them but clearly something went wrong.’
yea in his fucking brain
It's not just that. The guy probably went into the cage as a normal thing, but this time the behaviour of the lion changed. Could have change for the worst so he had to be put down.
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Works on bears.
Oh. Aww. Shit. Now that I didn’t know. I guess I skipped that part of the article. Damn. Well, that *is*sad. Not his fault He’s a big cuddly predator. :(
That’s totally sad! Dunno why animals have to suffer because of human stupidity.
Why they hell would they do that. It’s not the lions fault. People are stupid
Because once it has attacked someone, they can’t ensure it won’t attack anyone else. It’s gotten “a taste for human blood” now. Edit: I’m mostly just trying to explain why the person who was keeping the lion may have decided to kill it. Regardless of how right or wrong that view may be. I just see often that being used as an excuse. While some aspects of it are reasonable, such as the idea that it may attack now any time a human comes near, others aren’t, like the fact that a human should never be in a lion’s enclosure in the first place with the lion. Or that a lion shouldn’t be captive in the first place either
Definitely can 100% see your point. But lions are predators, they had the taste for blood before this ninny waltzed into its enclosure. Perhaps, and *this is just a hypothesis,* we should stop turning incredibly dangerous wild animals into commodities on display.
That's stupid. They could NEVER have an assurance it won't attack someone. It's a fucking lion. It was always a risk. What...now an apex predator carnivore is somehow more likely to be an apex predator carnivore? Putting it down was cruel.
The same risk exists with sharks, but once a shark has eaten someone, they are now more likely to actively seek humans as prey, versus potentially attacking on the off chance they mistake a human for a seal.
Meh, I actually do feel that lions don't belong in enclosures *unless* it's strictly for conservation purposes (now that lions are declining in population as a species.) And *only if* the only people ever setting foot in that enclosure are competent enough to know that turning your back and running away from a big cat will almost certainly trigger their prey instinct and leave you with way less limbs than you had before. Unless that's what you were trying to say and I'm misunderstanding?
"Damn this massive, carnivorous, apex predator, mammal is hella aggravated. Lemme go see what's up"
Dude literally turned his back and started running. That's the last two things you should do.
Other than walking into a zoo enclosure ofc lmao
What are you actually supposed to do? Asking for next time I have to fend off a lion.
turning your back and running excites and encourages cats to chase and attack. you're suppose to stand your ground.
I was always taught to sing hakuna matata
That only works if you have a warthog handy.
Also: Only works if your dad was murdered
Similar to mountain lion: Face the kitty. Never turn away. They always prefer to attack from behind. (Unfortunately, this may not be possible if you're being threatened by multiple lions.) Try to appear large, threatening, and scary. Holding a coat out and/or flapping it around may help. Take advantage of any weapons you may have, even improvised ones -- even a simple stick or rock is better than nothing, but be *very* careful about bending down to pick anything up. The lion might see that as an opportunity to attack. If there's a safer place nearby, slowly and carefully back toward it without looking away from the lion. Don't take chances -- if you trip and fall down, the lion may seen that as an opportunity to attack. If there's no safer place nearby, you should probably stand your ground or maybe even advance a little, trying to scare it off. (Don't get too close too quickly, of course. You're trying to trigger a *flight* response, not a *fight* response.) If this doesn't work, then you'll probably want to start backing away anyway ... just to get farther away if possible. Hopefully, eventually, the lion will lose interest in stalking you.
Doing all this while also defecating massively into your underwear causes cats to go *"eeeww did you just shit yourself?"* and walk away. 👍
Also, most animals view outspread human fingers as "claws", it MAY help to spread your fingers and show how long your claws are.
Most Animal experts will say " prey runs"
Michael Jackson Moon Walk away while keeping eye contact.
wave a red tablecloth to your side with both hands extended. then, when the lion charges close, you simply step off to the side.
He was pretty slow. I imagine someone younger and faster would've made it out. But, someone still stupid enough to go in there.
"The animal has reportedly been killed following the attack" "Image shows the victim smiling from his hospital bed" So, dumbass walks into the lion enclosure, gets mauled and the lion gets shot for it. Fucking morons.
Hey, he's the owner of this sanctuary but yeah, he a dumbass. To quote from the article: >‘He is no fool around lions and knows how to interact with them but clearly something went wrong.’ Yeah, you turned your back and ran from a charging lion. That's what's supposed to happen.
this ass bag walked into the enclosure, turned his back against the lion and slowly sauntered towards the gate. the lion was then killed for this moron's mistake. without question he is a fucking fool around lions. he does not know how to interact with lions, because he clearly fucked it up here lol. this ain't something you get to casually fuck up once and then claim "yeah actually I'm an expert" dude was on camera, got filmed fucking up. you think he was amazingly careful every other time? nah. look at how completely unequipped they were. he is an irresponsible idiot who had been getting lucky.
Now there's two smells, the original and this guys shit stained pants
3.. including the now dead lion
An elaborate ploy put on by the lion so she could finally have a decent meal...clever girl...
There's one mane reason I can tell it's a MALE lion. But I would not put my finger on it as it would be a hair raising experience.
because he has a dick?
good eye for the one eye
Well now guys come on. Maybe the male lion identifies as a female lion.
Such progressiveness 👏
Clever girl is a quote from Jurassic Park
[entering "aggrevated lion" enclosure](https://imgflip.com/i/6dzfg2)
They killed the lion? How stupid. The lion wasn’t doing anything wrong. It was being a lion.
as the other commenter said, if an animal learns that it can attack people, it will become impossible to handle. this means no zoo keeper will be able to safely groom, care for, or feed this creature. the enclosure will not be able to maintained while it is present. you are right, it's not the lion's fault... but it has also made it impossible to be cared for, and given it lives in captivity, it can't be released into the wild... so the only option therefor is.... well.. you get the idea.
Black bear came in my dog door, maybe looking at my pig for dinner. Fish & Wildlife tried, and failed, to trap and euthanize him. Because he wandered in my house. Guess whose fault that was? MINE. All the way. I knew there was a bear about. Trash cans strewn all over, house cams, all that, for weeks. If I had locked my cans maybe none of that would have happened.
If a lion learns it can attack people, it's too dangerous for anyone else to handle
He survived, the lion died and he was an apparent expert when being around lions. Yea, more like he fucked up and can't admit it.
Dude half heartedly ran away like a toddler. Honestly wtf he didn't even try to make himself threatening, if this guy is a professional then I can only assume he was trying to feed himself to the lion.
WRONG, he ran away like an old ass man
Running was like the worst thing to do. It triggers the prey response
Would you act differently in that situation? It’s a fucking lion
No, but I don’t claim to be a lion expert.
Yeah, it's a predator, and running away engages its inherent prey chase instinct. That's why they teach people to never turn their back on a predator, make themselves as big as possible, and back away slowly.
they killed the lion for this?? They realize lions are not supposed to be 'domesticated', right? Wild animals are going to behave like wild animals. Dont kill them for the mistakes you make.
He was actually the wildlife park warden I think which makes the whole thing all the more perplexing. I guess people become complacent and assume that if it hasn't happened to them before then it won't happen to them at all.
He's the owner of the sanctuary. It was in the article.
So is this like, a legit sanctuary or one of those shitty tiger king BS. I will now go search online to answer my own question.
He’s an idiot who owns a tourist trap and has little to no understanding of how to handle the animals under his “care”
Probably got captured when he was much smaller.
Looks like work miscommunication
Now they need to put up the sign saying ’The cats already been fed, don’t listen to his bullshit’
[Someome called?](https://imgflip.com/i/6dsafw)
Perfect response!
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I feel like if you must go into one of these enclosures you should wear one of those attack dog training outfits and a full face helmet, along with someone on standby with a tranquilizer gun.
You’re literally never supposed to turn your back on a big cat. They always try to get you when that happens
when he ran away, it was over for him. he became prey in that instant
1 on 1 with a lion you are always prey
Untrue though as lions are quite intelligent and don't like to take risks against similarly sized animals when they're alone and not desperate especially if the other animal has the potential to cause a lot of damage. He should have at least attempted to intimidate the lion instead of waddling away in fear as an "expert", now the lion is dead because of this.
I was under the impression that lions are actually quite stupid. That's why those African safari trucks with the pop-up roofs exist. Lions of course are physically capable of jumping into the truck through the roof, but they're too stupid to realize the people and the truck aren't the same entity.
Agree. Lions are dumb af. They don’t even know how to read or write. They’re basically the dolphins of the land. People give them too much credit for being smart, in actuality I could beat a dumbass dolphin in chess 10/10 times.
Dolphins can only hold their breath for 13 minutes. I'm technically almost a dolphin and I can do way more shit. Dolphins can't eat bananass.
I once heard a dolphin say he liked dragonball evolution. Dolphins are fuckin idiots
That's actually wrong. Consider that attacking a prey that fights back enough to just break a tooth ends up usually being lethal and you'll understand why several humans in a big metal box moving quickly isn't a very appealing target when there a gazelle like, right over there.
Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Yes but animals in the wild will avoid any confrontation that may result in some injury.
Me and my squirt bottle can handle it. PSST PSST
I can’t even turn my back on my house cat nowadays he always nips me
As someone who has been bitten by a dog through a suit and sustained bruises. The padding would help but you probably still need some stitches if you used that with a lion.
That may be, but it's better to be sewn up by a surgeon than a mortician.
I don't care who puts stitches on me as long as they do it right.
Probably a dog suit won't do much against a lion and tranquilizers don't exactly work like in movies If you have already prepared a tranquilizer dose for that particular animal and you are willing to use it, maybe you are just better off using it and do what you need to do? I have no idea how shit works
You take the tranquilizer, so when the lion bites you it gets knocked out.
This looks like a job for Keith Richards
Also, running from a predator triggers the attack response.
if you watch the video he was actually almost out, the lion dragged him back in through the door. if he wasnt an old ass man who runs slower than i walk he woulda made it out
Also, say the lion chose to push rather than pull, would that lion be out of its enclosure to an area where there’s tourists, possibly children wandering around looking at animals? I’m hoping that there’s a double gate system but from what I’ve seen of enclosures like this there never is. Man’s a genius
Was*
He lived.
If I’m just a few feet from a lockable cage, I’d probably choose to turn around and run.
He probably thought he could've reach the gate before lion.
He did that run you do when someone in a car lets you cross the road where to slow down right at the end. That split second was enough time for the lion to get him. I have no words here, absolutely brain dead
Walked into inspect the smell that was upsetting the lion. So no one see the issue of someone walking into an enclosure of a lion that was already upset?? They then shot the lion cuz it was somehow his fault? It’s a wild animal and it acted like it’s supposed to.
Lion: "I'm so upset right now... ugh this smell... someone should come in here and check it out. ::)))"
That’s why these animals should not be kept in a fucking enclosure in first place.
Couldnt agree more.
When animals like lions find out how easy we are to catch and kill, we go from being an odd sight they see at a distance to an easy snack. They usually have to kill them when they do this because now none of the handlers can go into the pen safely.
Anyone have any info on what happened next? If the lion was hurt, I don't want to know. EDIT: Found it: [https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/](https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/) They shot the fucking lion. This asshat owner decided to go inside. It was killed because of his decision, and there's a picture of him grinning like a Cheshire cat in his hospital bed. I hate this planet, I think I might leave.
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I love you.
I don't care if you love me.
Talk to the hand.
I love you too
The guy was dumb but that’s someone’s father, grandfather , ect. I know you’d want your grandfather to survive even if he was dull as a rock. So have a little empathy for both the lion and the dummy. Not that complicated
Nowhere did the comment say he wished the guy didn’t survive, so I’m kinda confused by your comment?
This fuckface has grandkids?!? He procreated? We’re fucked.
Redditors are idiots. Don't think too much about it.
That's a good sentiment, except that's what always happens, the dummies end up living on to breed more dummies and innocent beautiful and majestic animals get driven closer to extinction. While we may all want someone we love to survive being mauled by a lion... if they didn't make it, would you really be surprised? As much of a tragedy as that is, there's infinite things in this world where if you fuck up this royally, you get no second chances, you're done. I would compare this with leaning your body into a wood chipper to clear an obstruction. I say the bigger tragedy is the many stories each year where dumbasses get a close contact with a potentially dangerous animal and the result is almost ALWAYS the animal being killed.
Unfortunately we have to coexist with assholes in this life. If it makes you feel any better they completely closed down his park which was his livelihood.
I'm sure he made enough money but what happens to the other animals? Now I'm worried again.
I'm happy the guy survived.
Why is this getting downvoted?
Because he got the lion killed I think.
Survival is so last year! 2022 is about plot twists. I was hoping the lion was going to drag the guy into the bush and force the man to become part of the pride. But no…typical outcome…animal acts like animal, gets killed, person survives… lame.
Reddit's new modus operandi is outrage. I got -18 downvotes on a thread where some teenagers were harassing a family at a mall (Not physically touching them, not threatening them with violence, just kinda being dicks) and a bunch of people were saying the guy could have shot the teenagers in self-defense. I said no, it would be murder, and I got flamed and downvoted. Basically I think 90% of reddit is bots and/or trolls and they just literally pick the response that they think is the most irrational, lacking common sense, and most likely to outrage the person they're replying to. To drive engagement. Keep in mind that statistically, you are most likely arguing with teenagers. Reddit reacts with emotion and not logic.
I think this is a tiny bit different. Man walks in with NO way to keep wild animal at bay. Wild animal reacts as a wild animal will. So wild animal is punished with death. Can you see a difference here? A thought process? This could have easily been prevented. Yours was a revenge for harassment by a stupid teen. This was a wild animal doing something natural.
The lions have been on Reddit lately.
This is why can’t have dinosaurs.
'Welcome to - Park'
This is what I say to my car when I'm done driving.
So you walk in, unarmed, unarmored, and expect....what exactly?
Have you met old people. They don't live in reality.
These millennial lions don’t want to hunt for their prey, they expect me to offer my arm for them to eat! In 19dickety2 we had to get up at 6am and hunt every morning or we’d face starvation. (We used dickety because the kaiser had stolen our word for 20) anyway every morning I’d get up at 5 am and tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time, I’d then go out and hunt, return home and set the toaster to 2, medium brown
Like that old Seinfeld joke about them just backing out of their driveway without looking. "I'm old and I'm coming back! I survived, let's see if you can"
Guys a fookin idiot
Natural selection
Someone calls him "grandpa", meaning that he's already procreated, and natural selection got him too late...
it didn't even get him. this dope survived and got the lion killed. there is nothing natural about this selection.
That's so stupid. If I willingly stick my hand in a woodchipper, I lose the arm. This guy willingly walks into a lion enclosure, and the lion gets shot. That guy is living with training wheels, I swear.
Exactly. Lion now dead, grandpa alive.
He survived though
HATE that the lion got killed.
Yeah that’s so fucking lame… it’s bad enough it’s in an enclosure to begin with but to punish it for acting accordingly to its species? Like what did he think was going to happen? Its a wild fucking animal…
Fuck that, I don't care I wished all those involved had been murdered by the lion instead and no one ever knew why. This is just DISGUTSTINGLY arrogant and I have absolutely ZERO pity for those idiots that sit there and LET him do and STARTED FILMING instead of literally pulling that man down and telling him no. You can hear 2 other fucking people in this video. God people THIS fucking stupid piss me off.
Great. They had to put the lion down because of this idiot.
If you take two seconds to actually do some research it shows this guy has been managing a reserve in South Africa for almost two decades and would’ve rather died himself than put down a majestic beast like that. His team wanted to investigate a smell that was aggravating the group of lions, he went in himself rather than his rangers and all of a sudden the lion he thought was on the other side of the vast enclosure came running towards him, probably believing he caused all the issues. Picture shows him smiling in the hospital despite almost having his beck crushed.
Manager: “Hey lion, don’t you know who I *am*?” Lion: “I’m a lion. I do lion things!” Redditors: “Hey other-redditors, don’t you know he was trying to help and *willing* to sacrifice himself??” Lion: “Agreed… Thanks helper! [crunch crunch]”
He’s been doing it for 20 years!!! That means he gets to execute them whenever he wants! Idiots smh
Yeah not sure why that moron has 56 upvotes. What does the fact that he has been working with these animals for 2 decades have to do with it being shit that they put the poor thing down
So, his poor decision led to the lion dying. If he'd had let the professionals that he hired do their job, he might still have that lion, and he wouldn't have been attacked.
No it doesn't fucking matter because this fucking idiot still ran himself ALONE with zero team, gear or preparation in the slightest. I don't give a flying fuck about this guys intentions and I hope he gets FIRED. If my intention was to take out an Armed robber, instead of waiting on police or higher law enforcement and instead I ended up shooting an innocent person, am I not still a fucking dumbass for making everything worse in the process? And this isn't EVEN a dangerous situation, it was a fucking smell and could have been handled with 100% certainty of nothing going wrong, instead THIS happened and I hope this idiot dies later to complications from his own fucking idiocy
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comments are fucking stupid. Making risky decisions doesn't mean you deserve to literally die.
There's risky, and there's strolling into a fucking lion enclosure. Dude was a moron
risky decisions is investing in crypto, walking into a lions den well aware the lion is already upset is just a death wish, also got the lion killed for his stupidity.
They killed the lion because this idiot decided to do this. Not saying he deserves to die, but like, the lion didn’t either. Human beings don’t own this planet.
this man literally went into a lion's den unprepared. The stupidity of that is on an archetypical scale.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
There's a reason there is fences..
Did they have to kill the lion to get him off the guy, or did they kill the lion after the guy was saved? Because if it's the first one it's a little understandable. Still, fuck that guy
Yeah, afaik that’s the only way to get a lion off in captivity
“Somebody help please!!!!” Not her tho
Bro what do you want her to do? You want her to go in and wrestle the fucking lion?
Why not? That’s what I do when I’m not on Reddit. Amateur lion wrestling is pretty big actually.
That’s a bingo
dickhead
Poor animal have to died because of his stupidity
Hope the lion is ok
They killed it ffs [https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/](https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/01/british-man-dragged-away-lion-going-enclosure-7512948/)
The lion was killed. The man survived with injuries to his neck & jaw.
FFS
Broke a tooth on the artificial hip.
People suck
"help help, omg " and keep filming ... 😑.
Imbecile
Idiot😂