Lion eats man!

[Topher]

What an idiot! :o

Zoo lion kills man who invokes God (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060605/od_nm/ukraine_lion_dc)

KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.

"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.

"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."

The incident, Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers are kept in an "animal island" protected by thick concrete blocks.

Mark 16:15 "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

[Topher]

Dispite being an idiot - least he put his money where is mouth was.

[TheDarkJester]

Apparently he spent more time studying the bible than he did learning good old fashioned common sense.. Talk about Murphys Law :)

[Sparkle]

"Thou shalt not test your God" comes to mind :p

[Yohan]

Talk about Murphys Law

Shooot . . . that's not Murphy's law! I can think if much worse things that could happen, were I trapped in a lion cage.

Getting the cut and bleeding to death really doesn't sound so bad in that sitation. It could have mauled him for 30 minutes.

[kmguy8]

now.. if we could only get more christians to try this little experiment......

[Ular Sawa]

I am rather surprised no one has posted a video yet....

[NewLearner]

What an idiot! :o



Tell me about it! Btw, you do realize the guy was most likely an atheist, right? Read what he said. Unless you can come up with something about him that shows he wasn't an atheist, I would say that it was most likely a suicidal atheist that wanted to make religion look bad.

[prowla]

One for the Darwin awards...

[succubus]

Tell me about it! Btw, you do realize the guy was most likely an atheist, right? Read what he said. Unless you can come up with something about him that shows he wasn't an atheist, I would say that it was most likely a suicidal atheist that wanted to make religion look bad.
haha. nice theory.

my theory: people really are *that* stupid.

[adouglasmhor]

It's actualy not an uncommon thing for disturbed individuals to do, and the coment by Newlearner (I think learning probably would be something new in some cases ;) )about the guy being probably an atheist is nonsense, nobody has to prove naything to you for one and for two the guy was shouting "god will keep me safe" hardly makes him an atheist.

[CosmicFish]

Actually, I can see where NewLearner is coming from. From the article:

The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists'

Which makes you wonder if he really was a believer or not. Plus, I can't see anything in the article to say what religion he claimed to be. We'd be jumping to conclusions to assume he was a Christian.

[adouglasmhor]

Nothing to say he was or was not anything other than disturbed in my opinion. It's actualy a very comon scenario for people acting out of a mental imbalance, usualy amongst Christian brought up people and also Muslims (Daniel is a prophet in both religions).

[Keikai]

Does anyone know if there are any pictures of it??? :D

[CosmicFish]

Does anyone know if there are any pictures of it??? :D
Yeah, here are the two lions relaxing afterwards while their meal goes down. You can see the one on the left trying to lick an eyeball from between the digits of her paw.

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20060605/2006_06_05t093641_450x319_us_ukraine_lion.jpg

[iamraisen]

Mark 16:15 "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

i didnt notice the quote first time. i just re-read it and sniggered out loud in my office.

[CosmicFish]

i didnt notice the quote first time. i just re-read it and sniggered out loud in my office.
Good point, me neither.






I wonder if that includes earwigs . . . ?

[Durkhrod Chogori]

I reckon he should have put some lion skin on top of his shoulders before preaching the Bible to the big cats, like these piglets are doing with Ma tiger:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9028/surrogatemum17kh.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=surrogatemum17kh.jpg)


:D

[NaughtyKnight]

Reminds me of a joke.

After the tsunami, a church is swaped with water, and its rising. The on surviving priest runs onto the roof to pray for gods deliverence. 2 mins later a fishing boat comes along. "Get in father, I will save you.". Said that captain. "No thank you captain, my lord will save me". Replied the priest. So off the boat went.

Another 2 mins of pray and another boat comes along. Again the priest refuses the captain help, instead waiting for god to save him. By this time, the water is up to his waist.

Another 10 mins past, and a helecopter hovers above the roof of the church. "Come father, I will save you." says the pilot. "No thank you, God will save me." The priest says. So off the helecopter flys.

The water is kreeping up they priest's neck and he is starting to get nervous. "God, why do you forsake your loyal deciple?" he askes god.

Just then, the heavens part and gods head pops out of the clouds.

"OI MATE. I've sent 2 boats and a bloody helecopter already, what bloody more do you want!"

:D

Of course God is Australian. ;)

[holyheadjch]

Thats what faith gets ya.

[Guru Jim]

If this Dummy would of read his Bible he would of seen the verus that says, "Do Not Temp Thy God". Maybe we should change it to, "Don't Mess With God, Or You Will Get Eaten By Lions". I fully believe In God, but God Also gave me the knowledge that I know something bad will happen if I do that. It's just the thining of the heard. :Angel:

[holyheadjch]

this guy showed ultimate blind faith, just like it advocates in the bible. He died for it, dont try to spin it into a temptation thing. You tempt God into giving you winning lottery numbers, this is a different kettle of fish.

[Johnno]

this guy showed ultimate blind faith, just like it advocates in the bible. He died for it, dont try to spin it into a temptation thing. You tempt God into giving you winning lottery numbers, this is a different kettle of fish.I'm no expert on the bible, but I've got a sneaky feeling that it never actually has God saying: "Go and make a prat of thyself in a lion's den. It's cool - I won't let them bite thee."

Can't we all just accept that this bloke was a complete nutter, without trying to turn it into some kind of test case for the existence of God? ;)

[holyheadjch]

My beef is that if the lion didn't attack this guy, or the guy survived, this would be held up as proof that God saved him. But because he was killed all of a sudden it doesn't count.

[Johnno]

My beef is that if the lion didn't attack this guy, or the guy survived, this would be held up as proof that God saved him. But because he was killed all of a sudden it doesn't count.Only by other nutters! :D

[CosmicFish]

My beef is that if the lion didn't attack this guy, or the guy survived, this would be held up as proof that God saved him. But because he was killed all of a sudden it doesn't count.
It probably would, but then would we atheists be taking it seriously?

[jonmonk]

Which makes you wonder if he really was a believer or not. Plus, I can't see anything in the article to say what religion he claimed to be. We'd be jumping to conclusions to assume he was a Christian.Yeah, he definitely shouted the wrong thing. Now if he'd said "God will save me because he exists." he'd have been fine :D

[Kinjiro Tsukasa]

Can't we all just accept that this bloke was a complete nutter, without trying to turn it into some kind of test case for the existence of God? ;)
I agree. God gave us brains. In no way does faith require that we do things known to be idiotic. This man was disturbed.

Similar thing happened in New York City once, minus any comments about God. A guy climbed into the polar bear enclosure in the Central Park Zoo and got killed. Polar bears, like lions, are nothing to mess with.

Oh, by the way, anyone wanting to make comparisons between the guy in the news article and Daniel in the lion's den -- Daniel didn't willingly and deliberately go into the lion's den -- he was forced in there. Duh.

[Ular Sawa]

There was a similar crackpot in Taiwan once. I can't recall whether he was killed or just brutally mauled. I think somebody might have snapped a picture of the male lion taking a swipe at him.

Then there was that classic episode of Wildboyz where they are waltzing around Africa in a zebra suit. Love that one :D ......

[NewLearner]

It's actualy not an uncommon thing for disturbed individuals to do, and the coment by Newlearner (I think learning probably would be something new in some cases ;) )about the guy being probably an atheist is nonsense, nobody has to prove naything to you for one and for two the guy was shouting "god will keep me safe" hardly makes him an atheist.


You forgot to include the whole phrase. "God will keep me safe, if he exists." Have you ever heard a person that trusts God so completely that they are willing to test it with their lives and then say "if he exists"? I didn't think so. I haven't either. Thus, I have to assume that the person, if not insane, doesn't believe in God at all. While the person being insane or the person being sane but suicidal and wanting to make religion look bad are the only two conclusions I can see.

[holyheadjch]

if you dont believe in God you dont put God to the test. That is pretty obvious from where I am standing.

[Capt Ann]

If you do believe in God, you don't put Him to the test, either.

[aikiMac]

I wonder if that includes earwigs . . . ?
:confused: I wonder why you even think the verse has anything to do with talking to animals. What kind of people do you hang out with that you would think that? :confused:

And the little news article gave no indication that the guy was in any way connected to Judaism or Christianty. Hey, maybe he was a Moslem. They regularly go on suicide missions, right? In other newspaper articles they do!

[Ular Sawa]

If you do believe in God, you don't put Him to the test, either.

Either way, it's not terribly prudent to invite the wrath of things that can rip out your carotid artery in a heartbeat. Perhaps that might be wisdom for non-believers & believers alike, unless you have a show on MTV & you're utterly insane...

[NewLearner]

if you dont believe in God you dont put God to the test. That is pretty obvious from where I am standing.

Very true. But do you think that someone that is suicidal would be immune from trying to make someone they disagree with look bad? Kind of like a last laugh at the other person's expense.

Large numbers of notes left behind after suicides blame their killing themselves upon someone else.

[Topher]

The mauling doesn’t disprove god. Prior to the event…

Lion: “Please god, bring me food”

:D

[tcgohan]

If your praying, hoping to be snatced away by a beam of light or protected by a forcefield you better be praying to aliens.

Haven't people heard. "Faith without works is dead." This sentence contains the key to religion. Noah didn't die in the flood because he built the boat, god gave him the instructions but Noah had to do all the work.
Daniel totally would have been eaten if he'd waggled his nekid rear in a lions face saying "neener, neener, neener you can't eat me"

[holyheadjch]

The mauling doesn’t disprove god. Prior to the event…

Lion: “Please god, bring me food”

:D
Nice,

[CosmicFish]

:confused: I wonder why you even think the verse has anything to do with talking to animals. What kind of people do you hang out with that you would think that? :confused:
Calm down dude, it was just a joke! :D

And the little news article gave no indication that the guy was in any way connected to Judaism or Christianty. Hey, maybe he was a Moslem. They regularly go on suicide missions, right? In other newspaper articles they do!
Agreed. I've already stated that I doubt he's a religious believer.

[Strafio]

It was about one and half years ago when a crazy Australian Christian tried to "save" some lions in a zoo by climbing into their pen and preaching to them. They left him alone because they'd been fed that day but knowing what preachers are like, I'm surprised they didn't eat him out of pure annoyance! :D

[Topher]

It was about one and half years ago when a crazy Australian Christian tried to "save" some lions in a zoo by climbing into their pen and preaching to them. They left him alone because they'd been fed that day but knowing what preachers are like, I'm surprised they didn't eat him out of pure annoyance! :D
lol

I think i remember hearing about that.

[Gary]

So god believes in natural selection after all :D

[Shrukin89]

Wow. Just wow. Now was it really God that saved him? Probably Satan saved him from not experiencing any embarrassment after the mauling.

Or God probably did that himself, God saved the lions from getting hungry, and coincidently the guy thought that he was the one getting saved. Uh no we gotta manage of how to save ourselves and others, in cases like that.

Scary to think of how some people preach and get themselves killed all by sacrifice.

[tetsu ryu]

Apparently he spent more time studying the bible than he did learning good old fashioned common sense.. Talk about Murphys Law :)

Yeah Totally. I dont recall God ever saying, Dont use common sense because ill protect you regardless!

[MAnewbie]

Hey, maybe he was a Moslem. They regularly go on suicide missions, right? In other newspaper articles they do!
???
Not against lions.

[Ular Sawa]

???
Not against lions.

You may be on to a good idea....

[aikiMac]

Not against lions.
Well, okay, it's true that I have not heard of prior instances of a suicide bomber going against a lion. But still --- it might be the same in principle. Maybe? I dunno. Such a shame that we can't ask him.

[tekkengod]

wow, well thats a nice little tid bit of info, i'm surprised i didn't see this one earlier. pretty funny stuff. I guess he was too busy having a tea party with the Kansas school board to help the guy :D :eek:

If you do believe in God, you don't put Him to the test, either.

ok.....sure...i'll go ahead and overlook the fact that it would defeat the purpose.

[Kinjiro Tsukasa]

Well, okay, it's true that I have not heard of prior instances of a suicide bomber going against a lion.
I would hope not -- it would be a waste of a perfectly good lion. :D

[Pacificshore]

:D