‘Drunk’ zoo visitor leaps into lion enclosure to ‘shake hands’ with big cats
May 24, 2016Nadia Judith Enchassi and Tribune Media Wire
HYDERABAD, India – An allegedly inebriated visitor found himself face to face with a female lion at a zoo in Hyderabad, India and somehow emerged with barely a scratch.
Identified as Mukesh, a 35-year-old rail worker from Rajasthan, the man later admitted to police he had been drinking before scaling the big cats’ enclosure inside the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad Sunday evening, according to The Hindu.
Shocking video shows Mukesh ignoring the cries of others as he drops into the moat and wades toward the cats as a lioness named Radhika runs to the edge of the water.
“Please, come to me, my darling” he said, according to witnesses.
A male lion, Krishna, joined Radhika as the two eyed the intruder, who, hand outstretched, came within feet of the lions. ...”
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