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punyXpress
05-05-12, 08:27 PM
From another site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -park.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139442/Violet-DMello-mauled-tame-cheetahs-holiday-safari-park.html)
Incredible!
And the husband kept taking pics.
minimorecambe
05-05-12, 08:37 PM
He didn't realise? Even though she clearly had blood running down her face!
She is lucky to be ok.
DJFridge
05-05-12, 08:59 PM
I can see a divorce on the horizon. How can that tool have kept taking photos? I hope the Daily Flail paid him well - cos she'll get half!!
Jackie_Black
06-05-12, 03:05 PM
Words fail me, tame cheaters **** off. If someone is stupid enough to try and pet them and they decide to have a play with you then expect wounds, crazy woman.
Words fail me, tame cheaters **** off. If someone is stupid enough to try and pet them and they decide to have a play with you then expect wounds, crazy woman.
Read the story ;) she saved a little child from getting mauled :)
speedplay
06-05-12, 04:44 PM
If my mrs was as well insured as this woman obviously is,
I'd keep taking photos so the loss adjusters couldn't wriggle out of paying...
punyXpress
06-05-12, 04:48 PM
Did so - no mention of her saving girl, but she did ' comfort Calum ' which MAY have saved him.
Hell of a lot going on, & her husband was STILL snapping away.
However, things changed quickly when one of the beasts grabbed eight-year-old Camryn Malan, who was among other tourists in the enclosure, and began biting her leg.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139442/Violet-DMello-mauled-tame-cheetahs-holiday-safari-park.html#ixzz1u6pNoDXe
punyXpress
06-05-12, 04:55 PM
[QUOTE=daddyjob;2706505]However, things changed quickly when one of the beasts grabbed eight-year-old Camryn Malan, who was among other tourists in the enclosure, and began biting her leg.
Next sentence: " Mrs D’Mello comforted the girl’s seven-year-old brother, Calum, telling him not to run so he would not aggravate the animals – but as she did so, the cheetahs turned on her."
So in the part i quoted, that's the point where the cheetah started to attack the little girl
Jackie_Black
06-05-12, 05:52 PM
I still stick by my original post. I read the story and it seems that people were getting into enclosures with "tame" cheetahs for photos. Cheetahs are the animals that can run at 60mph and take out wildebeast right? I see bringing them up in captivity drummed out thousands of years of instinct then :smt082.
The unfortunate animals will probably end up getting shot now, which isn't really fair. If my tame(ish) cat can cause me to bleed with one swipe of its little foot when its playing then i wouldn't fancy taking a whack of one of those when it's having a bit mess on. Mentalists.
yorkie_chris
06-05-12, 06:10 PM
A cheetah expert said humans needed to be careful around big cats.
Oh really, I never would have thought. Thank God for cheetah experts!
Jackie_Black
06-05-12, 06:12 PM
I don't even consider myself an expert, i'm fairly convinced however that stroking the head of a thing that kills for fun is stupid!
Mrs DJ Fridge
06-05-12, 09:47 PM
Personally I would never 'pet' any sort of wild animal neither would I let any of my family, the clue is in the name 'wild' animal. Does no one remember the line from Not The Nine O'clock News featuring the interview with 'the world's first talking gorilla', on being asked about being caught from the wild he answers "wild, I was livid".
Personally I would never 'pet' any sort of wild animal neither would I let any of my family, the clue is in the name 'wild' animal. Does no one remember the line from Not The Nine O'clock News featuring the interview with 'the world's first talking gorilla', on being asked about being caught from the wild he answers "wild, I was livid".
Good old Gerald the Gorilla, you can always rely on him for a good soundbite :-)
Mrs DJ Fridge
07-05-12, 09:10 PM
Good old Gerald the Gorilla, you can always rely on him for a good soundbite :-)
Having questioned what goes on in your brain on a previous thread, I have to say well done Lozzo, I would have been ages going through all my old cassettes trying to find the name of Gerald the Gorilla.
Having questioned what goes on in your brain on a previous thread, I have to say well done Lozzo, I would have been ages going through all my old cassettes trying to find the name of Gerald the Gorilla.
You really don't want to know what goes on inside my head
Bluefish
08-05-12, 09:52 PM
Oh really, I never would have thought. Thank God for cheetah experts!
:smt082 Pure class
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