A lion tries to eat a baby through glass case at a Colorado zoo:
I saw something similar about 10 years ago. I was doing an event and the stage next to mine had some tigers who did a show. The owners of this act would let people including kids into the cage to have their picture taken with baby tigers. I had mine taken. The first thing they did was to put a bottle in the tiger’s mouth.
I asked the guy who ran the act: “What would happen if I dropped the bottle?” “He’d play with you…” he said.
About an hour later a group of pre-schoolers walked by and the tigers — adults and babies — went wild.
“What’s happening?” I asked.
“They want to eat them. They go for the weakest of the species.”
I let out a massive “hmmmmmmmm.” Now let me get this straight: people were getting their pictures taken in cages with tigers who saw little humans and wanted to eat them?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.