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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“How does a lion leave a ‘locked space’? “
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Some idiot left a key nearby?
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I got nothing. How does a journalist write logic fallacies.
Stuff happens.
Horrible.
“A Day at The Zoo”. Warner Bros. 1939
https://youtu.be/RtblQQvT2Nk
I think they meant an enclosed or secured space.
Killed?? You mean EATEN.
Sad news.
Why was the employee not armed herself? If there was ever a slight risk she would be face to face with the beast she should have been armed
A 22-year-old newly-hired employee was attacked and killed by a lion after it escaped a space left unlocked by some careless idiot human at a North Carolina animal center on Sunday, officials said...
There...Fixed it for the reporter...
Obviously, someone's lion.
That said, tragic event. RIP.
And hope they put in place some, um, better safety procedures.
Lock Out-Tag Out.
About 40 years ago, I visited what was euphemistically called the Tulsa Zoo. It’s grown and improved since then, but I remember walking past the lion enclosure, which consisted of a very large pit, surrounded, naturally, with very high walls of earth. There was a moat, but NO fencing. I remember fearing that one of those lions could easily leap out of that pit, right at us. Of course, they never did. They must’ve been second hand lions...
I'm debating that point. This was a lousy job of keeping.
:-)
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Shouldn’t rule #1 be: Make sure lion is locked up?
With a key.
I didn’t know there were lions in Caswell County.
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