Posted on 10/29/2020 4:22:00 PM PDT by simpson96
DAVIE, Fla. (WPLG) – A man says he had to undergo multiple surgeries after he was mauled by a black leopard.
It happened after he paid $150 to have “a full-contact experience” with the wild animal.
Detectives with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) say the savage attack happened in an enclosure at a South Florida home owned by Michael Poggi.
The man has a Facebook page saying he’s an exotic animal breeder. He is licensed to have the leopard.
Investigators say Dwight Turner paid Poggi to play with the big cat, rub its belly and take pictures.
The FWC report says the leopard attacked once the man walked inside the enclosure.
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LOL!!!
Don’t pet the bison.
Sounds like he got his full money’s worth, and then some.
Such a deal!
Not only has Florida taken over California’s orange industry, they’ve taken over their kook industry.
Here in South Jersey we have an annual cranberry festival. Every year a group comes from a wolf sanuary. They have three wolves in cages and people pay 10 dollars to get in the cage and have their picture taken.
The big cats can even turn on their keepers. See Seigfried and Roy.
Might have been a vegetarian?
So I did. It had gorgeous cinematography, but its efforts to anthropomorphize the animals was unsettling, to say the least.
I know, it is "just a movie". And the visuals were striking. But the portrayal was something else altogether.
I didn't like that. But I can see a lot of people watching that, and thinking Elephants were the gentlest, most non-offensive creatures there are.
I guess the one about the Grizzly family would have really got me going.
A lot of people didn't care for the movie "Life of Pi", but I enjoyed the visuals enough to buy the 3-D version, which is pretty wild to watch. I understand fully why some don't care for it, but I liked it.
There is a scene in the movie where the young boy wants to make friends with the new tiger (named...Richard Parker") that came into the zoo owned and run by his father.
So he gets into the set up they use to get the tiger out of the cage for vet visits or if they are going to move it, and the boy is separated by prison bars from where the tiger can enter.
The boy gets some chunks of raw meat and when the tiger enters, he grabs a chunk of raw, bloody meat and holds it out, his arm extended between the bars, offering it to the tiger while he speaks gentle words of friendship and good will. The tiger advances slowly, smelling in that weird way cats do, with their mouth partially open.
At that point, the kid's father walks in and sees this, and screams...the tiger snarls and runs at top speed in the opposite direction, bouncing of the narrow walls, and disappears back into the pen.
The dialog went something like this:
FATHER: (screaming) What are you thinking?! Are you out of your mind? Who gave you permission to come back here? You have just ignored everything I have ever taught you
PI: I just wanted to say 'Hello' to him.
FATHER: You think that tiger is your friend. He is an animal, not a playmate!
PI: Animals have souls. I've seen it in their eyes.
FATHER: Animals don't think like we do; people who forget that get themselves killed. That tiger is not your friend. When you look into his eyes, you are seeing your own emotions reflected back at you - nothing else.
At this point, he has an assistant tether a goat to the iron bars with a rope, and when the goat starts bleating, the tiger slowly enters the enclosure, and comes to within maybe 20 or thirty feet then, it covers the distance in the blink of an eye (and faster than any young boy could have ever retracted his arm) and grabs the goat and impossibly pulls it through the bars.
Here is a link to the scene if you have never seen it; it is pretty powerful: Life of Pi Goat Scene
Hopefully the leopard wasn’t injured by this deranged man...
And I guess in this case it did...
He may have wanted a “full-body latte” and ordered the wrong thing.
Do you have that on a black velvet poster, with two fine ladies ?
Hey. Maybe they can get regular Joes to suit up and get full contact versus a semiprofessinal football player...75 bucks per play...or go against a pitcher at 10 bucks a pitch...get more business than mr scalpless earless man.
Florida Man Pays to Get Put in Cage with Leopard.
Don’t let the Dixie Mafia down that way learn of this. They may franchise the idea for self disappearing witnesses that pay good cash, up front, for their own removal from the gene pool.
The weird news is that the mauling victim bought a Season Pass.
Well, I guess he got his money’s worth.
DANG!
No but that sounds like a good idea to me :-)
A herd of angry elephants can flatten an entire village. That’s all I need to know.
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