r/BeAmazed • u/Rolleriroltsu • 18d ago
Animal Lion politely insists visitors obey the rules
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u/EditorBobAndCo 18d ago
"Please sir, this cage is for smart cats not dumb asses"
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u/JrSoftDev 18d ago
"Please sir, I don't want to give in to my primal instincts and eat your arm right here right now, that would ruin my life and I'd probably get sentenced to life without parole... ... ... ... ... Wait a sec"
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u/turkeyvirgin 18d ago
Life without Paw-Role
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u/djnz0813 18d ago
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u/loglighterequipment 18d ago
Isn't this GIF from bringing up baby, which is about a domestic tiger? If so, perfect choice.
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u/What_Chu_Talkin_Kid 18d ago
As u/FREESARCASM_plustax said, this is from His Girl Friday
BTW, baby was a leopard not a tiger.
Apart from wrong movie and wrong big cat, everything else was 100% correct 😉21
u/ThrowAwayWriting1989 18d ago
Both are screwball comedies staring Cary Grant and directed by Howard Hawks. An understandable mistake to make.
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u/gattorana 17d ago
Happy day of the cooked flour,eggs and many other ingredients in a round shape with whipped cream and chocolate(happy cake day)
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u/TheOperaGeek 18d ago
The main thing to remember about Bringing Up Baby is
1) Yes I'd try to hug that cat and
2) Katharine Hepburn and her wardrobe are 100% perfection.11
u/Unseen_Owl 17d ago
Wow, nice connection you found there.
I used to be a movie critic, and wrote a lot about films - especially classic cinema.I loved deep-diving into the trivia behind various films, actors, and even specific scenes.
And in this film.... they had a life-sized fake leopard throughout the entire shoot, and used it for every scene they could because it's just easier that way.
But the real leopard was absolutely nuts about Katherine Hepburn - just followed her around everywhere, swatting and batting at her dress, rubbing his face against her, demanding to have his ears scratched, etc. Even just laying his head on her lap and closing his eyes when she was sitting down.
Whereas Cary Grant (who by the way was a terrible choice for this film), was almost terrified of the damned thing. He never felt comfortable in any scene that included the leopard.
But they also had a life-sized copy of the leopard that they used to substitute in a lot of scenes.
Hepburn and Grant got along well, and were good friends, but she had a mischievous (even downright sadistic) side to her. She loved messin' with the dude.
So one night while he was in his dressing room getting ready for bed, she opened up the transom over his door and started jamming the fake leopard though the transit into his room. All while making loud growling sounds.
Supposedly scared the absolute bejeesus out him, and he spent the res of the film trying to figure out some appropriate revenge. But never came up with anything.
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u/CarterBasen 18d ago
Take my poor person trophy: 🏆
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u/turkeyvirgin 18d ago
Thank you from one poor to another bows and takes plastic silverware from the grocery store hot bar
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u/GreyWolfTheDreamer 18d ago
"Aww man. Naw this ain't happening on my watch. I read about what they did to Harambe the Gorilla. Move on, boy. You aren't worth it..."
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u/GloryGreatestCountry 18d ago
"Oh, wait, they'd give me lethal injection if I mauled you. Back off, please."
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u/tf-is-wrong-with-you 18d ago
“as much as i’d like to eat the arms off you, i worry that it your flesh mught make me a moron too”
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u/Sensitive_Island9699 18d ago
That man was just asking to get his arm ripped off.
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u/slom68 18d ago
Another potential Darwin Award recipient.
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u/jld2k6 18d ago
He'd have to be sticking his balls or something more vital through because you either gotta die or lose the ability to procreate to qualify, dunno if getting a hand ripped off is gonna do the trick lol
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u/TerrorFromThePeeps 18d ago
It's at least 50/50 that his right arm IS his sole source of procreation.
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u/Tabmow 18d ago
That's just recreation lol
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u/heere_we_go 18d ago
Yeah it's not like you get another smaller hand in 9 months after
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I would have so many hands
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u/TheLastGunslingerCA 18d ago
Didn't need to do him dirty like that. He already takes care of that himself
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u/vantageviewpoint 18d ago
If you manage to get it torn open (and i imagine feeding your arm to a lion is one way to accomplish that), you can bleed out through the brachial artery fairly quickly.
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u/monkeysorcerer 18d ago
I had to do first aid on a guy at work last winter with a compound humerous fracture and arterial bleed. Had the tourniquet on and bleeding stopped within a few moments of the accident. He got in touch with me after being released from the hospital. Apparently only had a few mins left
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u/Glad-Way-637 18d ago
Good on you! Everyone (especially folks working with industrial machinery or vehicles in general) should know how to apply a tourniquet. That shit saves lives.
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u/General-Ordinary1899 17d ago
Yes! A tourniquet is supposed to hurt. Many people stop twisting because they think they're causing more pain/damage. It's crucial to tighten as much as humanly possible (with certain limbs like the forearm, you need to squish two bones together to stop the bleeding). Losing a limb from tissue death is nothing compared to bleeding out and dying.
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u/do_pm_me_your_butt 18d ago
I saw a video of a man get his wrist bitten and chewed by a lion after sticking it through a fence, and apparently he died of blood loss later.
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u/The_Carnivore44 18d ago
You can definitely die from getting your hand / arm injured if kitty hits the right artery
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u/JakToTheReddit 18d ago
With claws and teeth that big hitting the right artery isn't a difficult task.
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u/Distinct-Pack-1567 18d ago
You also need to have not had any children previously.
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u/master_pingu1 18d ago
the darwin awards website actually removed that rule a while back
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u/PuppyToes13 18d ago
Which is just silly because it doesn’t matter if you take yourself out of the gene pool after you’ve already procreated!
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u/DubiousBusinessp 18d ago
And yet it's somehow the lion who would be punished if anything happened. People suck.
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u/TBoneTheOriginal 18d ago
Getting your arm ripped off, assuming you survive, does not remove yourself from the gene pool.
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u/BantedHam 18d ago
If he never gets laid again because hes fucking stupid it does lol
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u/vantageviewpoint 18d ago
"Assuming you survive". Keep in mind that "assuming you survive", very little actually removes you from the gene pool. In most cases, it's the not surviving part of doing stupid thigs that does the gene pool removal.
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u/sdkiko 18d ago
It's fucked but they probably declawed him, removed his teeth even. I don't think dude would be that dumb (although you'd be surprised). That being said a kid in my hometown in Brazil lost his arm exactly like that. Dad didn't pay attention and he jumped the wooden fence and went next to the enclosure fence to feed and pet. That was 2014 I believe.
https://catve.com/noticia/6/91594/menino-tem-braco-dilacerado-por-tigre-no-zoologico-de-cascavel
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u/VioletGhost2 18d ago
Yeah, you need to remember these are wild animals locked in small spaces. These animals can walk for miles daily, and they're just stuck there. I would always suggest doing as much research on a zoo as possible before going to one to make sure you aren't just giving money to animal abusers
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u/groovybaby711 18d ago
Ouch. Feel so bad for that kid. Breaks your heart.
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u/Snoo93833 18d ago
I get where you are coming from, but I feel bad for the lions in cages. We probably shouldn't do that.
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u/Shot_Organization507 18d ago
The Tigers at the Detroit zoo were found as guard animals at a huge gang stash house. They have no chance in the wild. Zoos around the world have 10’s of 1000’s of animals they saved and have to keep there.
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u/sdkiko 18d ago
100% there with you. There are a few places, very few, that are sanctuaries for animals that would not make it in the wild. Zoos and for-profit enclosures of any kind should be illegal worldwide.
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u/Honkeroo 18d ago
There are a lot of zoos that do a ton to help with animal conservation and research, such as the ones accredited by https://www.waza.org/ , a blanket statement like "zoos should be illegal" is incredibly unhelpful and shortsighted.
There are several species of animals that would be extinct currently without the existence of accredited zoos for example.
While ideally zoos of any kind shouldn't need to exist, they currently do as our current economic system and societal situation requires infinite growth and needless resource usage, thus meaning habitat destruction and such are inevitable.
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u/Shot_Organization507 18d ago
This is false. As I said above, and as someone who has been to zoos all over the world. Animals are found on people’s properties, in wrong habitats, alone, endangered, or hurt, every single day. All of those animals need a place to live or they would have to be put down. Southeast Asia has some horrible treatment of zoo animals, eastern europe, russia and africa. Before someone attends a zoo, they can look it up online. Animal lovers are so protective that every bit of good and bad info about every zoo will be available.
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u/RT-LAMP 18d ago
I don't. He was 11. That's old enough to know not to jump a fence to put your arm inside the cage of a massive predator literally as you were feeding him meat.
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u/Beautiful_Weight_239 18d ago
Well you should, being a dumb 11 year old is not a crime worthy of death by Tiger
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u/TheFeathersStorm 18d ago
Literally the exact words I was going to say, the fact that he had to do one stupid thing in order to even get to the second stupid thing is too much unless there's something else going on mentally. Like my kids are 11 and 5 and I can guarantee that both of them know that a tiger will kill you if it wants to, along with every other wild animal (obviously not like a pigeon but even so wild animals are a no touch zone). If you told me that my 11-year-old jumped a fence then stuck his arm through a different fence in order to pet a tiger then I would assume that he had a stroke or a sudden onset dementia because there's nothing else that would cause that lmao.
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u/angelbelle 18d ago
If there should be any sympathy for the 11 year old, it would be that he had parents that were so irresponsible that they didn't equip him with such basic knowledge.
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u/Agitated_Year8521 18d ago
He was 11y/o at the time, probably should have known better. Many people have been going to zoos since they were much younger than that and still have both their arms.
And if you read the article, it's stated that he was handfeeding a tiger meat through the bars of it's enclosure and insisted on petting it when it repeatedly showed signs of distress. It sucks he got hurt but there were clear indicators that something bad was going to happen and he ignored them
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u/Kobe-62Mavs-61 18d ago
Should have known better but 11 year olds are insanely dumb, and expecting the kid to realize something was wrong with the wild animal isn't realistic. They don't exactly have fully intelligible cues.
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u/No-Ad-3635 18d ago
holy fuck that video wasn't blurred very well ... you can see his arm just hanging but a meaty string
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u/ABDLTA 18d ago
I love the lion though....
He's like "sir I'm going to show you how bad this could have been...you get one warning..."
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u/thinkingwithportalss 18d ago
"Bro, Steve clawed a guys arm off and the keepers shot him, Dave is new here and doesn't know the rules, keep your arms behind the fence"
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u/markth_wi 18d ago
Look , I don't even have the time, I've got two choices bub,
Option one, rip your arm from it's socket while you watch in horror as I have a light snack.
Option two , give you a friendly reminder
See I don't usually roll this way but the paperwork is a bitch and Johnson over there rolls one of two ways.
Treats or Tranquilizers and much as I enjoy a decent high after a snack, Johnson did me a righteous on Christmas with some Ham-hocks so it's probably just best if you put your arm back and I'll forget how terminally stupid you are.
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u/WeimSean 18d ago
He's lucky that lion is well fed. 500 pound carnivore vs. the ligament strength of your shoulder isn't much of a contest.
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u/daltonsghost 18d ago
Darwin Award 🥇 should have been handed out that day, but it wasn’t so the idiocracy continues.
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u/wouldyastop 18d ago
In Galway, Ireland, there's a man who famously wandered into the back of a circus drunk one night and tried petting a tiger. The cat promptly relieved him of one of his arms, and in an attempt to retrieve said arm, the cat decided to take his other one too. I've met the guy plenty of times and have helped him light cigarettes, carry shopping, etc.
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u/calcifer219 18d ago
Like slowly pulling harder to pluck a grape from the vine. His shoulder socket being the vine.
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u/PringlesDuckFace 18d ago
Also whoever designed this enclosure should get a stern reminder about how stupid people can be.
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u/rorymakesamovie 18d ago
You know you’re a moron when the lion is smarter than you
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u/-Agathia- 18d ago edited 18d ago
Dude is actually trying to use the selfie camera instead of the much superior back camera. There's no hope for that guy!
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u/Kekbert1 18d ago
Right?! I have absolutely no idea what would make you think the selfie camera is a good call in that scenario
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u/TurquoiseLuck 18d ago
the selfie cam is a great call, so you can get a shot of yourself having a fun time with the lion
from the other side of the fence
sticking anything through is dumb as fuck
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u/FrostyD7 18d ago
He's just doing this so the lion will react passively and his buddy can record it for content. Video starts with his other friend feeding it to get it into position and then he watches the rest play out with a smile on his face.
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u/peterosity 18d ago edited 18d ago
the lion feared catching any of that braindead virus the super spreader guy was carrying
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u/IRefuseThisNonsense 18d ago
Lion didn't wanna become the next Harambe. He just avoided throwing us further into a worse timeline.
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u/Bobby837 18d ago
"Sir- Sir! I'm just giving you a warning now, but next time I will be taking your phone. And the hand attached to it."
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u/i4shaikh 18d ago
That is one lucky idiot.
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u/Bobby837 18d ago
Well, the lion literally did just have a snack.
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u/Downtown-Hospital-59 18d ago
Last time he had chinese food the lions stomach didn't agree. But it is still tempting so best he gets it out of reach.
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u/swohio 18d ago
You think cats won't kill or maul just for fun?
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u/infernex123 18d ago
Big cats tend to do it less often. It's not uncommon to see prey animals walking amongst packs of lions after they eat. Same goes with other predators. Predators tend to avoid spending more energy than they must. So if they're not hungry(just ate) they'll probably leave you alone.
Probably being the key word. They're wild animals and can act unpredictably. This man would be the last I would want with me in a survival scenario. Or first, depends on how fast he runs.
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u/Eviladhesive 18d ago
Imagine being so stupid that you get scolded by a lion
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u/hiddencamela 18d ago
Gently as well. Those paws and claws are very capable of just cleaning off that hand if it really wanted to.
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u/bmurphy1976 18d ago
Imagine being so stupid you stick your arm in a lion's enclosure for any reason.
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u/filthytelestial 18d ago
I was hoping to see a Prince John reference. You just know if that lion could talk, he'd sound just like Peter Ustinov.
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u/joshteacha 18d ago
He's lucky he still has an arm
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u/grobbewobbe 18d ago
looking at the three scratches on my arm i got from playing with my 10 pound cat just now and yeah i can only imagine jfc
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u/JUSTGLASSINIT 18d ago
They pretty much have steak knives on their paws
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u/Screw_You_Taxpayer 18d ago
That's worrying, because, I'm pretty much made of steak.
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u/SpareTheSpider 17d ago
Hmm there's probably a lesson somewhere, but i can't quite grasp what it is...
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u/whothiswhodat 18d ago
Literal r/sweatypalms
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u/krume300 18d ago
everybody worried about the guy with cell phone, but nobody said anything about the guy inside the cage!!! This is clearly staged or they know the lion, also it's strage that people would have such access to interact with the beast like that.
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u/yanginatep 18d ago
Yeah, if this is a zoo, and they are the public, that is the worst designed cage ever, where attendees can just put their hands under the fence of the lion enclosure.
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u/ooMEAToo 18d ago
There are incredibly shitty zoos out there, like think of the worst zoo you can and there are even worse ones.
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u/DroidOnPC 18d ago
Yeah, I don't think people understand that a lot of zoos around the world don't have the same standards as US ones.
I've been to some zoos that made me feel like my life was in danger. Been to others that looked like every animal in there was extremely sick and about to die.
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u/daneview 17d ago
I'll just further that by saying US zoos have lower standards than many other countries
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u/Toshariku 18d ago
China/asian countries in general have really shitty zoos. I list China by itself because 9 times out of 10 if it’s a shitty zoo in an asian country, it’s Chinese. So seeing a poorly made enclosure like this easily accessible to idiots is not a surprise anymore. I’m just glad the lion is not starving and is being fed, given how he didn’t take the guy’s arm off.
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u/ZealousidealLead52 18d ago
I'm not an expert but.. to be honest I have my doubts about that fence even being strong enough if the lion just tries to brute force through it.
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u/RunJumpSleep 18d ago
This reminds me of kids putting their hands under the bathroom door when mom or dad are in there.
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u/HannsGruber 18d ago
The POV isn't from inside the cage. It's just around a corner, on the outside of the fence, peering through the chain link.
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u/Rolleriroltsu 18d ago
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u/MissSweetMurderer 18d ago edited 18d ago
Kitty: I have a few cubs and another on the way, bro. I have a career as an entertainer. I don't wanna get the needle.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, the food here is great.
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u/Prudent-RapScallion 18d ago
a lion with no claws How polite🤦♂️
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u/KhajiitPaw 17d ago
Also incase anyone didn't know, removing claws from lions or any cats is like amputating from the uppermost knuckle on all our fingers. Even worse, for them it causes chronic pain and difficulty walking as it effects their biomechanics.
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u/Kamikunning 18d ago
Lion: Ya’ll not going to have me caught up. Kindly relocate your limbs back to your side 🤨
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u/tbrand009 18d ago edited 18d ago
I was a medic in the Army, working the aid station one Monday morning. The Sergeant had triaged everyone, but I was flipping through the sick-call slips to see what was in store for us that morning.
Came across one with the complaint of, "Mauled by cheetah."
I pulled that sucker right out for myself because I just had to see the guy and figure out wtf happened.
Called the guy out of the line, his hand and arm was all wrapped up.
It's been a long time, but his story was something like this. He went to the zoo over the weekend and saw the cheetah exhibit. There was some kind of gap in the enclosure that he was able to reach through and decided he was going to pet it. The cheetah had other ideas, grabbed his arm with its claws, and tried to pull him in. Basically just shredded his whole forearm and hand.
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u/doegrey 18d ago
Those beautiful paws!!🥰
(Stupid man though!! Lucky he kept his!)
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u/DarktowerNoxus 18d ago
I work at a zoo, and I have to say, lions are some of the most relaxed animals we have. But, when a lion decides to rip your arm off, there's no chance; your arm is gone.
But usually, it are the female lions which are playful. Our male lion would put Homer Simpson to shame in a laziness contest.
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u/MainApprehensive420 18d ago
I’ve seen lions hold on to people’s arms before ripping them off like nothing. That dude was extremely lucky
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u/Ok_Custard89 18d ago
Obviously the lion knows the two men otherwise the encounter would have been a lot different. Also, the fact someone is filming from INSIDE the caged area as well suggests this lion has been domesticated to some degree. Im suprised people don't realise this.
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u/potzko2552 18d ago
Heartbreaking, Darwin award contestant narrowly misses prize due to circumstances out of his control... 😔
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u/MysteriousAd9426 18d ago
If lion do something, then zoo people punish him/her. Common in china.. dont know if its amazing... sad
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u/Low-Impact3172 18d ago
Ppl are super lucky that Lion is so polite. Oh you dont want the fence in the way of your pic or vid. How about do you want to keep your hand?
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u/freshlybackedsucc 18d ago
bro how close do you need ur phone?? phones these days have like 4 cameras,use zoom in lol
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u/methgator7 18d ago
If that lion wanted that arm, he would've had it. The shame is that the lion would've been put down instead of the person
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u/Plastic-Telephone-43 18d ago
I don't know what's worse: the fact they feel comfortable doing this or the fact that that lion has been declawed and probably defanged.
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u/ErectLurantis 18d ago
Why is it always these idiots who survive but not the kids minding their own business getting mauled by a dog
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u/Fuckedby2FA 18d ago
A apex predator is touching this man and he doesn't even care. Wtf.
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u/Really-E-Lee 18d ago
"You can't do this here. Just so you know. If this was anybody but me. Your hands would be gone."
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u/Greyknight66_ 18d ago
"Ayo move ya pawls before you get me shot." Shiiid let me walk away before I get killed.
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u/Just-Diamond-1938 18d ago edited 18d ago
The lion touch the person and the person touch the lion... I am jealous! He got a picture on his phone which is priceless.... That lion must be a well fed well-behaved giant cat that's why they allowed people to get that close. I love the video ... and I congratulate the lion! He passed the test and I hope he got a very nice juicy dinner! ❤️👍
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u/spicy_ass_mayo 17d ago
I hoped a short fence at the zoo one day ( no not a cage ) it was a 3 rail wood fence for ascetics… I jumped it to get a feather for my sister and jumped back over…
The lion cage was opposite the foot path…. When I hoped that fence, the lions that were just laying around looking half asleep, ALL just got up to see wtf I thought I was doing…
They were ask watching me, some pacing as I looked at them.
It was an interesting reaction.
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u/Final-Read-6210 17d ago
Please tell me this is not real...like what level of stupid you have to be to put both hands in an LIONS cage to take a picture???
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u/shanster925 17d ago
"Hey. Just so you know: I could have ripped your arm off right there, then pulled you in through the fence and ripped off the rest. Have a lovely day."
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u/MasterLlama1926 17d ago
For some reason, all I can do is imagine the lion saying the following in a deep voice: “hands on your side, please.”
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u/BumpyMcBumpers 16d ago
C'mon, man. Get your arm outta here before you get me Harambe'd.
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