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South African safari lion reminds people to lock their doors

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) on Nov 17th 2009 at 11:00AM

Imagine this - instead of sitting in your car, slowly driving through the Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg, one of the cast members decides to pay you a personal visit.

The 300lb lion was able to open the rear door with his teeth, and right as he was about to climb aboard for lunch, the driver hit the gas and drove off.

A car behind the vehicle was able to catch the incident with his camera, and as you can see above, the lion was pretty close to getting into the car.

The car sped off, with the lion chasing it, obviously annoyed that his delicious snack was leaving him. A park warden was able to hold the lion back by throwing stones at it.

Lesson learned: lock your car doors whenever you are surrounded by wild animals. According to the park, all animals are well fed, and it is "unlikely" that they'd attack any tourists. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not take that chance.

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(Photo from The Telegraph/KETTS)

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LycanChild Nov 17th 2009 3:50PM

That's just funny.
I mean c'mon. A lion opens the door to a car! That's hilarious. Makes you wonder what they teach lions these days. ..
The question is, why throw rocks at it? JUST SHUT THE DOOR!
Adorable lion. I would like this aricle more if the culprit was a wolf. My wild cousins always amuse me with their antics.

HarleyDoody Nov 17th 2009 4:16PM

Picture means Doodly Squat !! Show a Video of the Lion doing it and I may believe it

Circus Tim Nov 18th 2009 10:50AM

Having worked around circus animals for 26 years, , you would be amazed at what an animal can and will do to get to a food source. Especially bears. I lion or tiger can flip a screen door type lock open with out practice, but a bear can open and close a door , flip up the top on a chest freezer, pry top off garbage cans, then put self back in cage and close door to look like they have no idea who did it.. Apes , monkeys ect can do anything a man can do with hands, including undo back of a bra they only have to see it done once.

traci Nov 17th 2009 5:27PM

@Brooke...sounds like you have experience. Don't talk about your environment so badly!

SMEE Nov 17th 2009 5:39PM

Have been to that pathetic lion park in 1984. The lions all have red eye from the pollution from cars. They should have closed that mess by now! Stupid people in Krueger Park used to get out and what do you suppose the animals would do? Isn't Busch Gardens. Felt sorry for those lions in Joburg then and now.