How many of you heard about or saw the video where the lady was killed by the tiger in China. It seems this car that had four people in it stopped because two of the occupants were arguing. The survivors say that was not true. Bottom line one of the females got out of the car and then her mother got out to save her and the tiger quickly attacked. The husband was not injured nor was the child who stayed in car. As my brother in law would say “smart move by you.” Was the argument that bad that she chose to get out into danger?
For the life of me I can’t understand why someone would want to go to a park like this. A park where the animals can come that close to the car. By the way it is called Wildlife World. I don’t understand, is this what people do for fun in this part of China? I watched the video a young lady gets out of the car on the passenger side and goes in front of the car to driver’s side and opens the door she must have heard the tiger coming up behind her. She turns around and the tiger attacks and drags her off. Her husband tries to go after her and her mother tries to rescue her and a jeep that looks like a park security vehicle pulls out from the bushes and the video ends.
I had to find out more about this tiger park. Reportedly the park, near a famous section of the Great Wall in a county north of central Beijing, has had serious safety problems before. In March, a park employee was killed by an elephant. A security guard who stepped out of a patrol vehicle was killed by a tiger in 2014. In 2009, an 18-year-old man was killed by a tiger in the park after he scaled a fence with two friends to enter the animals’ enclosure. The men had apparently been trying to take a shortcut through the park after a hike along the Great Wall, reported Xinhua, a state-run news agency.
Who in the world would want to work at Wildlife World? It sounds like suicide. It has been reported that the number of wild tigers in China has dropped to fewer than two-dozen living in the far northeast, where they cross back and forth into Russia; thousands of tigers are raised in parks around the country. Visitors to parks in cities like Harbin can pay to feed them, sometimes with live animals. “Oh no that is absolutely crazy.” Critics say such breeding programs do little to help wild populations and are sometimes used as cover for the illegal trade in animal parts, like tiger pelts and wine made from their bones. “Now have you ever heard of that? Wine from tiger bones. Oh my.” When I went to Animal Kingdom in Disney I felt safe; I think there was a ravine between the animals and us. If you go to anything like Animal World read the signs and stay in the car.
(Email the columnist at debbienorrell@aol.com)
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