Posted on 05/12/2025 12:02:47 PM PDT by Angelino97
A man was mauled to death and eaten by his pet lion just days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden.
A resident of Najaf, southern Iraq, was horrifically attacked by the predator before it consumed most of his body on Thursday.
'Today in a garden in the city of Kufa in Najaf, a citizen was attacked by a lion in his own garden and died immediately,' Mufid Tahir, spokesperson for the Najaf Police, told local news site Rudaw.
He added that because the lion had eaten a large portion of the man's body, and because the animal refused to leave the remains, it had to be killed.
The victim, 50-year-old Aqil Fakhr al-Din, had reportedly been keeping lions and other wild animals in his garden for several years, according to Tahir.
But on Thursday, the predator launched a surprise attack on its trainer before ferociously mauling him to death and devouring him.
One of the victim's neighbours reportedly intervened and shot the lion with a Kalashnikov rifle, killing it with seven bullets, as per local TV reports.
But by the time the lion was killed, it was too late for al-Din. He was immediately transferred to Al-Sadr Medical City Hospital in Najaf but did not survive due to the extent of his injuries.
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There once was a man in Iraq
Who was killed in a lion attack.
It was surely a pity
He kept this big kitty
What a dumb ass, to show it his back.
Thanks for posting...
Hey, Achmed, what’s eating you?
Simba!
Then he only gets honorable mention.
Lol
Sharing a meal with his pets.
He even made a contribution.
Darwin award material.
Has anybody seen Aqil?
No, something he disagreed with ate him.
There are a very few people who have raised lions from newborn cubs without being attacked, but this guy was stupid enough to get one grown or half grown, and that doesn’t work.
This ignorant fool caused the death of a great creature.
Bet he won’t do that again.
BRAVO!!
BRAVO!!!
Most excellent indeed!
The 28th of this month is the 9th anniversary of Harambe the silverback gorilla’s death.
He deserved better too, killed because of stupidity.
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, “ does this taste funny?”
Another? His lazy, nymphomaniacal daughter, Jasmine:
An indolent lass in Iraq
Spent a great deal of time in the sack.
She could earn a months pay
In a night and a day
Without once getting up off her back.
Chris Rock on the tiger attack on Siegfried & Roy in one of his bits. He said the news reports said that the tiger went crazy. His response was “That tiger didn’t go crazy, that tiger went TIGER!” :-)
Is it really a surprise attack if only one person in the world was surprised?
And I am sure he was fully vaccinated.
Fuzzy alligators
...they’ll still eat you
I saw that too.
And he was “taken to the hospital” - after or while being half-eaten, but then died at the hospital several hours later.
Nasty.
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