Woman killed by lion in South Africa was Vancouver-based visual effects editor

The Canadian Press ^ | June 3, 2015 | The Canadian Press

[bob_denard]

VANCOUVER - A woman who was mauled to death by a lioness in South Africa was a Vancouver-based visual effects editor on a volunteer mission to protect wildlife, her family says.

Kate Chappell, 29, was a "brilliant, kind, adventurous and high-spirited" woman, according to a post on her sister Jen's Facebook page.

"Her energy and passion could not be contained by mere continents or oceans. She was very much loved and shared her love for life with those she met," the post read.

Chappell worked on blockbusters including "Godzilla," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and "Divergent," and contributed to a 2014 "Game of Thrones" episode that won an Emmy, according to her profile on Internet Movie Database.

She grew up in the New York suburbs and spent the past year in Vancouver working for a special effects company, her mother Mary told The Journal News.

Her profile said she had worked for Scanline VFX, a company with offices in Vancouver and L.A.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

” I love you bear!” Chomp Chomp Chomp. My cynical treatment of animal lovers is their apparent total inability to realize large predators are dangerous. Most of us have lived so long in cities we forget about the danger posed by large animals. The hippo is more dangerous than the lion. Giraffes bite. Common sense has fled. I have a tough time sympathizing with the death of people consciously placing themselves in dangerous proximity to wild animals.

[hosepipe]

Because Brilliant does not mean Wise.

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I was a genius at 20.... BUT.. alas; grew progressively DUMBER over the years..
What’s “Chic’” is not usually “smart”..

[KevinB]

The irony, it hurts. See also:

Biker protesting helmet laws dies of head injuries from crash

Yosemite BASE jump protest.

[apocalypto]

Exactly. I know a guy who belongs to Mensa and has a brilliant career in science. Yet he lacks common sense, has made more than one bad choice.

[silverleaf]

This

[COBOL2Java]

Exactly. I know a guy who belongs to Mensa and has a brilliant career in science. Yet he lacks common sense, has made more than one bad choice.

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
- Mark Twain

[MIchaelTArchangel]

And the verb in the headlines is in the past tense.

[pa_dweller]

A while back we stopped at Virginia Safari Park (herbivores only). Same injunction, keep your windows up! DO NOT get out of your vehicle. Had an adult cow elk walk right up and lick the window. That's close enough for me.

p.s. This would be a great outing with the kids.

[jmacusa]

There is never any good that comes when humans and higher order mammals meet. Big cats, bears, wolves, big apes and monkeys and killer whales aren’t house pets. They’re incredibly swift, strong and powerful animals with million of years of instinct and evolution hardwired into them and their behavior around humans is always unpredictable. Such encounters usually start out bad for the human and end up tragic for the animal. Why anyone would want to be messing around with animals like this is beyond me but if one must it certainly pays to be well and heavily armed.

[Veto!]

That is one terrifying poster, BenLurkin. Makes me embarrassed to be a grrrrrrl.

I wonder whether the alleged techie who got killed by the lion thought she could print out a lion of her own if she got a close enough look.

The Triumph of Style over Content hurtles on.

[MeshugeMikey]

Which might be thought to be the more risky behavior...leaving ones window down on a safari when warned against doing so...or crossing Hillary Clinton??

[Chode]

i'll take my chances wi the lions...

[MeshugeMikey]

No lion has ever killed anyone and had the body dumped in Fort Marcy Park?

[Chode]

not yet anyway

[Talisker]

As I said, in that particular case I think you’re over- generalizing about animal lovers. The guy in question did serious work and broke new ground in behavioral and communication studies before he was killed.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

“I love you bear.” And they ate him-that is a fact.

[HonkyTonkMan]

the woman was taking pictures through an open window, even though visitors are ordered to keep windows closed....

Don't you know who I am

[Blennos]

I’m shocked by the lack of sympathy.

I agree. By all accounts, this was a nice, well-intentioned, intelligent lady who made a mistake. I've made mistakes. Many of the posters here have also made mistakes. We're usually lucky in that our mistakes do not prove to be fatal.

I can imagine that the windows of the vehicle were clouded with dust, so she rolled one of them down to get a clear photograph. 99.9999% of the time, she would have been fine. This was the tragic exception.

This poor lady has a family, people who mourn her . Let's show a little decency here people.

[samtheman]

I drove through Banff in Alberta and spent the night in a campground and read the pamphlets put out by the park rangers about the dangers of bears. There are both grizzly and black bear in Banff and though most people are smart enough to know that grizzlies are dangerous, many people think black bears are ... I don’t know... domesticated? Anyway, one of the stories in one of the pamphlets was about a couple who balanced their 2-year-old on the neck of a black bear to get a photo and the bear suddenly swatted or snapped and killed the kid in an instant.

People can be exceedingly stupid on the subject of wild animals.