Posted on 09/06/2009 12:40:09 PM PDT by Chet 99
I laughed it off as casually as I could, before slipping on the most padded jacket I had. This was a date with a lion after all.
Sitting alongside the camera crew and my fellow presenter, here with me to make tourism videos on South Africa, I took solace from the fact that the lion I was going to visit was called Mapimpan, which means “little baby” in Shangaan, and it was little more than a year old.
The lion was just a few days old when Arrie, the sanctuary’s resident lion expert, found it wandering the roadside, injured and malnourished.
It had been raised with a view to being released back into the wild. It was made clear that if I wanted to go into the lion’s enclosure it would be entirely at my own risk. It was a chance I was prepared to take.
“You cannot show him any fear. And, above all, don’t turn and run. He’ll think you’re prey,” said Arrie as we approached Mapimpan’s enclosure. I gulped and nodded.
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That’s why they are called animals. Not the writer, the lion.
Pit Bull gnawed his gear?
LOL!
IF He wants a REAL challenge, I dare him to enter Nancy Pelosi’s chamber- the lion will seem a piece of cake compared to that Vampiress
Ping
This lion was being prepared to be released into the wild. It was totally undomesticated, and untrained. This guy was an idiot.
He will leave with his soul, his wallet and his bank account all empty.
Lion: 1
Moron: 0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jXMsfLxhI
Albert and the Lion, as told by Stanley Holloway... (he played Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady)
“Yon lion’s et Albert! and Mother said ‘Eeee, I am vex’d!’ “
Tough day for this reporter. This is very similar to what Social Security is doing to higher-income young people.
Is it wrong to cheer the Lion?
Yeah buddy, kick this dummies rear.
Your post reminded me of a movie- from dusk til dawn. I can only imagine the chamber after sundown.......
[[He will leave with his soul, his wallet and his bank account all empty. ]]
Not to mention his head empty
Give that cat a bone
Hmmm, a man who plays with live handgrenades, is a devotee of Russian roulette, or who goes into a lion’s den is either a fool or a turnip short of a full load.
Geez - what some people will do JUST to get a Darwin nomination ...
[[Your post reminded me of a movie- from dusk til dawn. I can only imagine the chamber after sundown.......]]
Try not to imagine too much- it might cause irreversible psychological problems... shudder to even think about it lol
((((shuddering)))))
Reporter wasn't "mauled" he was slightly bitten and scratched badly.
Personally, he is quite lucky for a moron.
That lion in one quick move literally could have taken his life in seconds.
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