Stupidest case of visitors jumping/entering into an enclosure?

We have a new contender here (only in german, sorry, although it happens in the Philippines):

Philippinen: Er hielt es für ein Plastiktier – Tourist von Krokodil attackiert

According to the voice in the back a man in a Philippine amusement park jumped into the exhibit of a crocodile and put an arm into the mouth of the animal - thinking that it is (like the tortoise nearby) only a mock croc. Well, I guess that he knows better now.....

The weirdest thing of the story is that he and/or his wife have accused the park for insufficient safety measures!
 
zoomaniac said:
We have a new contender here (only in german, sorry, although it happens in the Philippines):

Philippinen: Er hielt es für ein Plastiktier – Tourist von Krokodil attackiert

According to the voice in the back a man in a Philippine amusement park jumped into the exhibit of a crocodile and put an arm into the mouth of the animal - thinking that it is (like the tortoise nearby) only a mock croc. Well, I guess that he knows better now.....

The weirdest thing of the story is that he and/or his wife have accused the park for insufficient safety measures!
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How absurd, does he have any common sense???? I doubt it.
 
Toronto has had 2 other breaches that I can recall. Just after the giant pandas arrived in 2013 someone opened a closed but not locked gate to try and pet Da Mao. He had none of it. They werent in the enclosure but they weren't where they were supposed to be. The dumber one was a group of teens hopped a fence to go take selfies and pet polar bear cub Hudson. The geniuses were darn lucky he was a hand reared cub because otherwise they probably would have lost some fingers. Again not in the exhibit but beyond a visitor barrier.

A good example though of a guest crossing that line at the zoo was in 1998 when a thoughtless family began throwing cookies into the orang exhibit. A squabble broke out among the orangs and Kartiko, a 8 year old male, was knocked into the moat. As we know orangs aren't swimmers and usually sinkers. While the family responsible just faded into the crowd and left a lifeguard who just happened to be there at the right place and the right time jumped in. He pulled Kartiko from the water and I believe other guests helped to haul them both back over into the visitor area where he and his girlfriend began administering CPR to the unconscious Kartiko using a map to help in the process. Staff arrived on scene within minutes (in a day before cell phones) and whisked Kartiko off to the health center where he regained consciousness but ultimately succumbed to pneumonia due to the water he had swallowed. Was jumping in the water with a drowning orang whos terrified group, including both parents, was right there smart? Not really. But he gave Kartiko his best shot at survival. I've never come across that mans name but there are heroic reasons to do the dumb thing sometimes. It's rare but it can happen.

99% of the time though the guest wants to win a Darwin Award if they cross a barrier.
 
Any breach in an enclosure is stupid. It just happens people want to be near "apex preadators" or the "cute mammals". I don't see any bird break ins, do you?(Parrots are an exception) For example the one at the Franklin Park Zoo(2022) was a tiger enclosure. Its always a charismatic large mamal. The curse of fame!
 
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