Some idiot decided that he’d hide from the cops in a tiger enclosure at a zoo. He is now an ex-idiot.
“What exactly happened we don’t know and we won’t ever know because the only person who could tell us is dead,” police spokeswoman Else Gerber said.
She said there was an empty can of beer near the corpse and that the autopsy would reveal whether the man was intoxicated at the time.
Zoo officials have said the Bengal tigers will not be destroyed because they were blameless. The tigers had been fed on Saturday and so did not eat the man because they were not hungry, according to media reports.
Good to know.
That’s beautiful — especially the part about the tigers being blameless. I’ve been to South Africa several times, and I love the attitude they take towards this kind of thing.
(And for some reason I’m reminded of Seigfried and Catchow)
–Howard