A woman was bitten by a lion at Melbourne Zoo after slipping her hand inside the enclosure to get a flower, the zoo confirmed today. It is the second time in the past month that an animal has injured a visitor at the zoo. The incident has prompted a review of perimeter security around the lion enclosure, with electric fencing to be installed to prevent lions getting close to the barrier. Zoo spokeswoman Judith Henke said the incident happened about 5.30pm last Thursday — half an hour after closing time — after the woman and a man repeatedly refused requests to leave. "They had previously been asked to leave, and between one staff member speaking to her after hours and the next staff member speaking to her after hours the bite had occurred," she said. So, she climbed over a barrier, ignored all safety signs, (I'm assuming) her own common sense, and she got nipped on the finger. But yet through her own stupidity, the Zoo now is going to put up further safety barriers?! Wasting who knows how much money in an effort to prevent excessively idiotic behaviors like this from happening?! Maybe we do need big-brother... They even have a picture of a lion (just incase you don't know what one looks like)
I've done some Risk Assessment/H&S, and found it never pays to underestimate just how inventive people can be in harming themselves. Best solution for zoos is to keep the visitors in cages.
they should seriously consider putting the electric fence on the outside to keep idiots away from the lions
Stupidity is such a broad term. I think this is linked to having no common sense though. I was going to come up with something witty but I am laughing to hard.. .
If you're wanting to read about human stupidity I sugges you read 'The Darwin Awards' Chock full of those who shouldn't have ever got in the gene pool in the first place...
