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Lion slipped out of holding pen before
killing sanctuary worker
Reuters, by Liala Kearney
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Posted By:WIBadger, 3/8/2013 9:33:55 PM
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| SAN FRANCISCO - The African lion that killed a California wildlife sanctuary worker had slipped out of its holding pen, which apparently was left improperly secured, and crept up on the woman inside a larger enclosure to attack her, the coroner said on Friday. (snip) Hanson was cleaning the larger enclosure when the lion escaped from its holding pen, apparently by lifting a gate that slides open and shut vertically, Fresno County Coroner Dr. David Hadden told Reuters.
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Comments:
I was reluctant to comment on this when it was first posted here yesterday because I had a hunch more info was coming. This was a very tragic accident rather than someone just being careless or stupid as some posters seemed to believe.
Prayers for this young woman and her family.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 3/8/2013 10:16:02 PM (No. 9215969)
Folks, I saw the initial story yesterday with video from the local channel. Her father said some things based on a phone call he received after the incident. Then this morning, I notice the "story" seems to have changed a bit. The two sanctuary officials, a man and a woman, were OH SO CAREFULLY reading from a heavily-lawyered statement. They said nothing that wasn´t on that paper. We may not know for some time what really really occurred at the sanctuary. Prayers for her family. She was so young.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 3/8/2013 10:21:12 PM (No. 9215977)
Very tragic. They might need a system to double-check that the animal is locked away. Seems like these incidents happen every 6 months or so - an awful ending for both man and beast.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lalo, 3/8/2013 10:22:01 PM (No. 9215980)
So terribly sad. And she looks like such a wonderful person. At least she died almost instantly, apparently. I consider animal workers a special breed themselves (angels on earth)...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird, 3/8/2013 11:10:47 PM (No. 9216017)
This young woman and one other employee were said to have been the only ones on duty at that time. The park was closed. The owners also said she was not supposed to be in the enclosure.
The gate, which dropped into a slot like a guillotine, had to be totally in the slot or the lion could have lifted it. But this story of the lion lifting the gate still seems to be a theory, speculation, not something that has been proven.
It´s early days. More info will come out over time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
juststop, 3/9/2013 1:40:19 AM (No. 9216085)
It has been reported that she was talking on a cell phone while working .... when the lion jumped her!!! Another Darwin award.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 3/9/2013 2:26:33 PM (No. 9216967)
You can never take the wild out of a wild animal.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird, 3/9/2013 2:51:49 PM (No. 9216998)
Re #2, this wild cat haven has passed numerous inspections of both the facility and its safety procedures, and has not had an incident in something like 16 years.
The earliest reports said that the owners stated this intern was NOT to have been in the enclosures.
Jack Hanna said her "fearlessness" (her father´s term) was probably at fault. She thought these cats were her friends. Trusted them too much. Perhaps broke the haven´s rules. And took her eyes off this lion long enough for him to - if the story holds up - open a guillotine-type gate, that would have had to be lifted from the bottom (and only if it had not been securely dropped down into a bottom slot), and get to her.
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