Stupidest case of visitors jumping/entering into an enclosure?

Emanuel Theodorus

Emanuel Theodorus

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After watching the news of a woman deliberately entering a Spider Monkey enclosure at El Paso Zoo, I was wondering what other cases that have visitors going into an animal's enclosure by deliberately being stupid.

Note: accidental cases like Harambe in Cincinnati or Painted Dogs in Pittsburgh doesn't count as they are pure accidental, albeit with the stupidity of the guardians who hold them.
 
There might be hundreds of cases.

The recent "giraffe rider", the "Let's get out of the car while in the cheetah enclosure" and the "Father of the Year" award nominee aka "Let's drop my kid in front of a charging elephant" come to mind...
 
Batto said:
There might be hundreds of cases.

The recent "giraffe rider", the "Let's get out of the car while in the cheetah enclosure" and the "Father of the Year" award nominee aka "Let's drop my kid in front of a charging elephant" come to mind...
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Do you think we should've made an annual M*ron of the Year award show here in ZooChat? Number 1 for me right now is that elephant guy. He puts himself, his daughter, and the elephant in danger.
 
A few years back, a gentleman at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo climbed into the giraffe exhibit to retrieve his glasses. He promptly was escorted out of the zoo and banned from entering again.
 
The demented visitor who jumped out of a Bronx Zoo monorail car 15 feet above ground into the Wild Asia tiger enclosure to be “one with the tiger” may take the prize…Very lucky to have survived both the fall and the tiger.
 
reduakari said:
The demented visitor who jumped out of a Bronx Zoo monorail car 15 feet above ground into the Wild Asia tiger enclosure to be “one with the tiger” may take the prize…Very lucky to have survived both the fall and the tiger.
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The Chinese guy who climbed into a zoo and ended up in with a Tiger, was less fortunate….
 
Batto said:
Let's drop my kid in front of a charging elephant" come to mind...
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Oh but why was he in the elephant exhibit you ask? Well to get a selfie with one of the old elephants at San Diego. Yann martel in Life of Pi : A young elephant will most likely dismember you and trample your body parts flat. That's what happened to one poor lost soul in a European zoo who got into the elephant house through a window. An older, more patient animal will squeeze you against a wall or sit on you. Sounds funny-but think about it!"
 
The only case of a visitor killed by an animal at Prague zoo happened in 1990s. A group of drunken university students was celebrating end of a semester and secretly climbed fence of the zoo at night. One of them took a bet he will swim in a water pool of the tiger enclosure. He met huge adult male Amur tiger LIGAR who broke his neck spine with one bite.
 
A teen backflipped into the white rhino enclosure of my local zoo. Somehow came out unharmed but got arrested
 
Tilikum (the Orca of Blackfish/Seaworld fame) killed a trespasser at Seaworld Orlando rather unceremoniously back in 1997.

I struggle to think of a more ill conceived enclosure breach than that..
 
I witnessed some white trash kids literally waltzing into the Galápagos tortoise enclosure at the Barcelona Zoo to start Fortnite dancing in front of the reptiles. When I politely asked their mother to get them out of there, the stream of obscenities directed at me would put the Angry Videogame Nerd to shame. Needless to say, I called security.
 
JigerofLemuria said:
I witnessed some white trash kids literally waltzing into the Galápagos tortoise enclosure at the Barcelona Zoo to start Fortnite dancing in front of the reptiles. When I politely asked their mother to get them out of there, the stream of obscenities directed at me would put the Angry Videogame Nerd to shame. Needless to say, I called security.
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Did they get banned?
 
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