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04-18-2016, 09:07 AM
Latest 'Darwin Awards' entrant jumped into a tiger cage on purpose
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Drama unfolded at the Toronto Zoo when a woman jumped into the Sumatran tiger enclosure to retrieve a lost hat. Said hat does **t appear to be made of solid gold in a video of the incident, which begs the question: Why do that terribly stupid thing?
To be fair, the woman jumped into the space between the exterior fence and the interior fence, meaning there was a thin layer of braided wire separating her from death-by-250-pound-big-cat. Zoo officials told the Toronto Sun (http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/17/woman-hops-tiger-fence-at-toronto-zoo-for-hat)*that the biggest risk she faced was a broken ankle from the jump down.
The relative safety of a wire fence didn't stop the crowd of astonished onlookers from telling this woman — who appeared to be at the zoo with children — what a moron she was. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/17/tiger-cage-hat-toronto-zoo/)
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Drama unfolded at the Toronto Zoo when a woman jumped into the Sumatran tiger enclosure to retrieve a lost hat. Said hat does **t appear to be made of solid gold in a video of the incident, which begs the question: Why do that terribly stupid thing?
To be fair, the woman jumped into the space between the exterior fence and the interior fence, meaning there was a thin layer of braided wire separating her from death-by-250-pound-big-cat. Zoo officials told the Toronto Sun (http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/17/woman-hops-tiger-fence-at-toronto-zoo-for-hat)*that the biggest risk she faced was a broken ankle from the jump down.
The relative safety of a wire fence didn't stop the crowd of astonished onlookers from telling this woman — who appeared to be at the zoo with children — what a moron she was. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/17/tiger-cage-hat-toronto-zoo/)
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