Stupidest case of visitors jumping/entering into an enclosure?

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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AVGN, ah, a man of culture, I see.
 
While this doesn't include entering an enclosure, per se, I believe my grandfather deserves a mention. For context, both incidents take place at the Fort Worth Zoo. When I was about seven I had a birthday party at the zoo, and during an educational program where they brought animals into the room, my gramps reached over, attempting to pet one of the zoo's resident African Penguins which then bit his finger. Recently he also tried to pet a Giraffe I was feeding, I told him not to and he could get bit and/or get in trouble, but he continued whilst STANDING DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE KEEPER AND SECURITY GUARD. They gave him a warning and I began laughing as he began going on about how he could pet them when he was younger.
 
Wasn't exactly entering the exhibit, but awhile ago there was a video going around of a guy crossing the visitor barrier and proceeding to lean over the edge of the wall and slap the hippo standing beneath him. Least he had enough sense to not try and jump on top of it or something equally dumb. o_O

Also there's a couple incidents of people entering polar bear enclosures if I recall correctly, though I don't remember any specifics.
 
This is probably a bottomless pit… in fact I believe the famous ‘Darwin Awards’ have a special clause excluding such incidents. Better than in Roman times I guess, where you would be thrown into the enclosure ;)
 
in 2008 at six flags dicovery kingdom a man entenrd the parks camel exibit to punch one of the camels(por camel) after the man ecapet from the them park securaty. police cout up with his getaway car and arested them. the man laiter tried to sell his shoes that he had during that day one ebay. side not the camel was not hurt in the incident
 
It happens more than we see. People get out of cars in Safari Parks for all sorts of daft reasons. Someone got out of a car in a lion enclosure in a UK safari park to catch a Pokémon. Honest! (don't know if they caught it mind you) however, the lion didn't catch them i do know. Kids out of sun rooves of cars to feed Baboons, children holding sweets and fruit to feed Lemurs.......
 
Man enters lion exhibit at Taipei Zoo (mauled but rescued):

An amazing response from the zoo, successfully keeping the lions at bay with tranquillisers and high pressure hoses, allowing the man to be rescued. As seen in the video, police were on standby with fire arms if it had escalated:

 
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