Posted on 07/30/2005 9:30:47 AM PDT by Cowman
29 Jul 2005 17:26:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, July 29 (Reuters) - A man was eaten by lions after running past guards into the Kruger National Park at dusk just as the gates were closing, park officials said on Friday.
Park spokesman Raymond Travers said guards and rangers searched for the unidentified man in the dark after he ran into the park on Thursday, but failed to find him. He was found after dawn on Friday as the lions feasted on his corpse.
"We have no idea why he ran in," Travers said. "We suspect the man was mentally deranged. No one in their right mind would run into the bush at Kruger at night. It's far too dangerous."
Kruger National Park is home to between 4,500 and 5,000 lions spread across an area roughly the size of Belgium. Rangers shot one lion -- an elderly male -- as he devoured the body and were looking for a female lion, he said.
"It was an elderly lion and elderly lions tend to look for easy prey," he said. "These lions have obviously learned that humans are easy prey and that is what we are worried about."
Mentally ill people had occasionally broken into the park and been eaten in the past, he said, but it was highly unusual.
Lions club having a guest for dinner?
Someone eaten up with pride?
"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid" - John Wayne
In all seriousness, how long before some DUmmy blames this on Bush/Enron/Cheney/Iraq?
cleaning up the gene pool ping
It was an event put on by the local Lion's Club..
man was eaten by lions after running past guards
Just think of it as evolution in action.
And quite tasty too!
I nominate this guy for the 2005 Darwin Award.
PS: Lion Burp Alert! LOL!
They should have shot the guy when he ran into the park. He might have survived the shooting and it would have saved the life of a lion.
And now he's physically deranged, too. Got the whole package....
Left off that catchy refrain... ;)
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh
A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A-weema-weh A weema-weh
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Home, home on derange...
I never knew the words after the first three lines...
Another mentally derranged encouters a lion.
Chris Rock; "That tiger didn't go crazy! That tiger went tiger!" (talking about the tiger that attacked Roy)
yep
LOL
yeah he did...
They are WILD animals for a reason....
Greenpeach or Peta things carried to their logical Darwinian conclusion...? How sad.
And now he's physically deranged, too. Got the whole package....
Is that deranged or dis-arranged?
I nominate him for the 2005 Darwin Award.
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