Fuck around and find out: Ghana zoo: Lions maul man to death in Accra

[muriel_volestrangler]

Wildlife authorities suspect he may have planned to steal two rare white lion cubs which have become a big draw since their birth last November.
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A lion, a lioness and their two white cubs were in the enclosure when the incident happened.

"The lions have cubs so if you come too close they may feel you are trying to take away their babies," Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Benito Owusu Bio told journalists.
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The intruder scaled a 10-foot fence before climbing over another 20-foot one to enter the lions' enclosure, officials say.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62712476

[Ray Bruns]

1. Surprisingly, not in Florida

[Timeflyer]

3. Hey!...well, yeah...

[Aristus]

2. There are times when I feel like we owe a tremendous debt of thanks to stupid people.

They so often volunteer to remove their defective DNA from the gene pool, thereby improving humanity for the rest of us.

[Effete Snob]

5. Speaking of removing defective DNA from the pool...

...an interesting fact about so-called "white tigers" and "white lions" is that they are so valuable as attractions that they are deliberately inbred in order to express the normally recessive gene which causes this mutation. Unsurprisingly, this produces a lot of linked recessive mutations, resulting in having to cull spectacularly deformed animals.

[bronxiteforever]

8. There are plenty of people with spectacularly deformed souls.

Like their compassion bone is deformed or absent.

[Jeebo]

7. Candidates for the Darwin Awards?

Do they still give out Darwin Awards? I don't remember hearing much about them since the late 1990s.

-- Ron

[Aristus]

9. One is only eligible for the award if he/she has departed the mortal sphere without reproducing.

If they have already had kids, no award, because they passed on their defective genes.

[Effete Snob]

11. It may be

That the idea of humorously commemorating people's deaths through what may have been an expression of mental illness, lack of education, or even momentary bad judgment, might have come to be considered in bad taste.

Some people aren't very smart, and some very smart people do very dumb things. Sometimes, they die as a result.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Geez

Stepping into a lions den is bad enough.

But stepping into a lions den that has baby cubs is just a guarantee of being mauled.

[Xoan]

6. Poorly researched plan. TIA

[MissMillie]

10. Seriously??? Someone over the age of 6 has to be told...

...not to go into the lions den?

[roamer65]

12. We should ship some extremist far right christofascists over for lion food.

The Romans weren’t all wrong on that practice.

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