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22-year-old employee killed by lion that escaped enclosure at animal center
ABC ^ | Dec 30, 2018, | Joshua Hoyos Emily Shapiro

Posted on 12/30/2018 2:11:05 PM PST by yesthatjallen

A 22-year-old newly-hired employee was attacked and killed by a lion after it escaped a locked space at a North Carolina animal center on Sunday, officials said.

A "husbandry team, led by a professionally trained animal keeper, was carrying out a routine enclosure cleaning" at the Conservators Center in Burlington when a lion left the locked space, went into the area where the humans were and killed Alexandra Black, the Caswell County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Black, 22, from New Palestine, Indiana, had recently graduated from Indiana State University and had worked at the Conservator Center for about two weeks, the sheriff's office said. She was also a college intern, the sheriff's office added.

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To: yesthatjallen

Everybody thinks those big cats are so cute and cuddly......they ain’t !! They’re killers, it’s what they do in the wild. Why would you think they want to cuddle just because they’re in a cage.
Someone violated a safety procedure.


21 posted on 12/30/2018 2:55:36 PM PST by blastdad51 (Typical middle-aged white patriot.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hows about this. A newbie employee was sent in the cage to shovel lion sh!t while all other animal experts were on their phones and lion was not secured.


22 posted on 12/30/2018 2:56:37 PM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Always stay with the herd.


23 posted on 12/30/2018 3:07:22 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: yesthatjallen

24 posted on 12/30/2018 3:07:43 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: blastdad51

Most animals kill to eat. Cats kill for fun.


25 posted on 12/30/2018 3:07:51 PM PST by PAR35
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To: yesthatjallen

26 posted on 12/30/2018 3:08:29 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: WashingtonFire

It appears none of the keepers were armed.


27 posted on 12/30/2018 3:08:43 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Makes more sense than her carrying a gun. I also doubt the damn lion ate her and the only gun needed is too shoot the expert trainer idiot. Figby’s FUp’s


28 posted on 12/30/2018 3:13:24 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: yesthatjallen

NC doesn’t have secure elections either.


29 posted on 12/30/2018 3:15:00 PM PST by ryderann
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To: max americana
Killed?? You mean EATEN.

Maybe, maybe not - cats of all sizes can be finicky eaters. They definitely aren't finicky killers, and will often stalk and attack even when they have no intention of eating.
30 posted on 12/30/2018 3:20:07 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: yesthatjallen
Whoever designed and whoever purchased the enclosure without a fail safe that can only intentionally be defeated should be jailed for manslaughter.
31 posted on 12/30/2018 3:27:51 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: yesthatjallen
How does a lion leave a 'locked space'?

In the future, place local stories in chat

32 posted on 12/30/2018 3:33:10 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator

” In the future, place local stories in chat”


I don’t post articles,but that request makes no sense.

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33 posted on 12/30/2018 3:39:52 PM PST by Mears
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To: waterhill
Now that was an interesting little cartoon. Thanks for linking. I might have seen it when I was a small boy and they were showing them on Saturday mornings.

Here's a rather strange MST3K narrated short of some guy sent to the Everglades to catch animals for the zoo.

34 posted on 12/30/2018 3:45:38 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Mears

Well, General/Chat does have a “Local News” topic that can be selected. But you lose access to the state tabs.


35 posted on 12/30/2018 3:48:36 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Mears

I’m curious too. I thought it was a story from ABC. Loved the comment comparing NC election security to the idiots at the zoo. Thought it was entirely correct.


36 posted on 12/30/2018 3:49:47 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: Rebelbase

There’s not a lot of anything in Caswell County, it’s a sort of sad old place with lots of beautiful farmland, a few old towns that seem to be depopulating and a decent sized recreational lake up on the VA border. That’s about it. If I were looking for a large acreage of nice rolling farmland or timber for cheap that’s not too far removed from airports and city conveniences, it would be a great place. Kind of close to a lot of stuff, but everything’s at least an hour away. Kind of like Cullowhee once was, come to think of it. I had no idea there were any sort of exotic animals there either.


37 posted on 12/30/2018 3:53:13 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Redcitizen

I love Larson!!! Thanks for this!


39 posted on 12/30/2018 3:56:35 PM PST by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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