Satire: 12 Lessons From People Who Jumped the Fence at the Zoo

 "Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage at the zoo"

- Vuk Bojovic, Director of Belgrade Zoo

True. That being said, there are a lot of idiots out there.

Earlier this year, we shared the story of the boy who fell into the jaguar exhibit at the Little Rock Zoo - the child survived.  This, of course, calls to mind the African wild dog incident at the Pittsburgh Zoo... where the child did not survive.  Both of these children ended up in enclosure with dangerous animals by accident... but it's not uncommon for people to deliberately throw themselves into exhibits with zoo animals.  Here are some of their stories...

12 Lessons From People Who Jumped the Fence at the Zoo

Absolutely nothing good can come from being stuck in a cage with captive wild animal at a zoo – nothing.  And yet people seem to be constantly putting themselves in that very situation, coming in very close proximity to lions, tigers, bears, and vicious monkeys.  Some of these people died in the cage with the animal, and others just suffered gruesome injuries.  These people obviously weren’t rocket scientists to have found themselves in this situation, but there has to be something to take away from some of the dumbest, most careless, and in some cases, drunkest people to ever consider something so risky.  So, here are 12 lessons from people who jumped the fence at the zoo.

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