This Is Why You Stay in Your Car at the Safari Park
Some rules are meant to be broken, but not if they’re printed on a sign at the entrance to a wild animal enclosure. Follow those rules.
A Chinese woman was killed by a Siberian tiger in a Beijing animal park this past weekend after she left her vehicle to save her daughter, who was almost instantly mauled after leaving the vehicle seconds earlier.
According to the New York Times, the woman who first left the vehicle may have been arguing with her husband. In a security camera video of the attack, the women leaves the passenger side of the vehicle, walks around to the driver’s side, and speaks to her husband through his partially opened door.
Within seconds, the woman is attacked and dragged off by a tiger. Her husband and mother give chase. While the woman survived the attack, her mother was killed by another tiger while fighting the first one.
Badaling Wildlife World safari park has a bad history of deadly attacks. The NYT report states that an employee was killed by an elephant in March, and a security guard was killed by a tiger in 2014. Seven years ago, a young man was killed after using the park as a shortcut.
Unless the only threat in the animal enclosure is the risk of soft, cuddly and affectionate creatures rubbing against your unprotected ankles, never leave your vehicle in one of these parks.
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Don't laugh at the tigers, show them your diamond heart.
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