A young America tourist killed in Africa

AZ Jim

AZ Jim

R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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SURPRISE, ARIZONA
For not obeying warning signs.

http://news.yahoo.com/lion-kills-american-tourist-south-african-park-151511103.html#

Johannesburg (AFP) - A lion leapt through a open car window and mauled to death an American tourist at a privately-run game park just outside Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said.

"There was a car driving to the lion camp and the lion did come through the window and bite the lady," Scott Simpson, operations manager of The Lion Park venue told Talk Radio 702.

"The ambulance arrived quite soon, but the lady had passed away."
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Some tourists take insane risks.

I've been on a safari holiday in Kenya and would never come that close to a lion with the windows wound down.

Part of the problem is this mania for recording everything with a camera. We didn't take any photos when we were out and about looking at the wildlife, preferring to drink in the experience with our eyes. An American couple in our vehicle kept urging the driver to get ever closer to the animals so that he could get better pictures. He seemed cranky all the time and I wondered whether he was seeking a fantastic experience or a fabulous photo album.
 
I went on many safaris in Uganda because we lived there. Never took any chances. A park guide told us about a tourist who leaped out of a vehicle even though he was told not to so he could get a closeup of an elephant. The elephant trampled him to death.
 

:lol: On our first drive around the wildlife park we stopped to look at some elephants in the middle distance. Hubby asked our driver and guide what would happen if we got out of the vehicle. Would they run away?

Our guide was highly amused and said "They'd run all right... but not away".

Later Hubby asked the same guide if they had to feed the lions. More amusement at the ignorance of Aussies. I think we made his day.

Rule #1 for tourists - When in a foreign country, take heed of any warnings from the locals even if you think that they are pulling your leg.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
:lol: On our first drive around the wildlife park we stopped to look at some elephants in the middle distance. Hubby asked our driver and guide what would happen if we got out of the vehicle. Would they run away?

Our guide was highly amused and said "They'd run all right... but not away".

Later Hubby asked the same guide if they had to feed the lions. More amusement at the ignorance of Aussies. I think we made his day.

Rule #1 for tourists - When in a foreign country, take heed of any warnings from the locals even if you think that they are pulling your leg.
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We were doing a drive through one of the national parks in our own car and had booked a guide. We had stopped to look at a couple of huge elephants and one of them started flapping its ears. The guide said to move the car 'now' as the elephant was annoyed and would likely charge the car.

We were chased by a cape buffalo another time when we went off road in our car. Lone cape buffaloes who have been kicked out of the herd for one reason or another are very, very bad tempered.
 
Animals that are in zoos are not pets. When will people realize you cannot treat animals like you puppy or kitty?
That is why you need to keep your car doors locked and windows up. They should not even have to post to stay in your car.
 
African safaris are not zoos, they are animals in the wild in their own natural habitat. They aren't fed, they catch and kill their own food if they are meateaters. We used to go on dawn game walks with a park guide who carried a rifle. But this was only in parks that had no lions or wild cats.
 

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