Angry 400lb lion attacks British tourist who patted him on the bum while posing for pictures in Thailand

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Angry 400lb lion attacks British tourist who patted him on the bum while posing for pictures in Thailand

 

Robbie mucks around before making the lion angry

 

Robbie Gaine from Garden City was visiting a zoo in Thailand when a big cat turned him

 

A British tourist has been attacked by an angry lion after patting the animal on the bottom while posing for photos in a Thailand zoo.

 

Boxer Robbie Gaine, 29 from Garden City, Flintshire, was on holiday with friends when the group decided to go to see lions, tigers, leopards and elephants at a zoo.

 

The site allows visitors to enter a cage with a zookeeper where a lion is tethered to a concrete block with a 2ft chain.

 

Full story: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/angry-400lb-lion-attacks-british-9625668

 

-- Mirror 2017-01-16

 

 

[tominbkk]

Hope he learned something that day. Is he drunk or something? Stupid man.

[ezzra]

Maybe the loin was thinking that the man is making a gay move on him.....

Next time, pat him on the head mate....

[trogers]

Ahhh... he likes butts then...but the lion is not gay...

[KarenBravo]

Misleading title. The lion didn't "attack him".

These false titles seem to be increasing on this site.

[Rumbleg]

Must have tapped him on the pills.

[fasteddie]

Heartbreaking to see such a magnificent animal treated this way, I soon learned not to go to Thai zoos.

[Kerryd]

Watch the start of the video.

He's standing at the rear of the lion and reaches down towards it's butt with his right hand. To me that doesn't look like he's trying to pat it on the bum. Looks more like he was tugging on it's tail.

 

Audio sounds like: "hey - just to **** Steve Irwin. Nothing to see here. Come come. (as he's tugging on it's tail) Me and Sim....oh ******."

 

I feel sorry for those animals. Like the ones at the Crocodile Farm. Tiny cages the size of my bathroom with full grown bears and lions and tigers cooped up in them. The birds, elephants, giraffes and crocodiles get treated far better than the lions, tigers and bears.

[LennyW]

He touched the lion's rear end, the lion stood up and turned around....boring!!

[Somtamnication]

Hope the lion is ok. What an idiot!

[craigt3365]

51 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Maybe the loin was thinking that the man is making a gay move on him.....

Next time, pat him on the head mate....

Or avoid places that abuse wild animals like this?  Disgusting.

[neverere]

A two foot chain ? This is horrendous.

[trogers]

43 minutes ago, fasteddie said:

Heartbreaking to see such a magnificent animal treated this way, I soon learned not to go to Thai zoos.

 

And support dual pricing too...

[worgeordie]

Who can blame the Lion,I would be pissed too,

chained to the floor with a 2 foot chain,these

places that show animals this way need to be closed,

its the mindset of the past,along with bull,bear  baiting,

regards worgeordie

 

 

[Sphere]

Where is this "zoo"?

[daveAustin]

22 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Hope the lion is ok. What an idiot!

 

Yes, fair enough, he was, but if it weren't for the stupid policy of this so called zoo in allowing human beings to pose with these beautiful,  powerful animals, this wouldn't happen would it!

 

The sensationalist title looks like it's taken from that rag the Daily Mirror. A bit naff for them; the type of thing the Star does.

[rhythmworx]

Unfortunately incidents like this are not enough to put other tourists off, all they want is a selfie.

 

So the trade continues.

[Elfin]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Maybe the loin was thinking that the man is making a gay move on him.....

Next time, pat him on the head mate....

Maybe touching the lion's loin was the problem??

[toenail]

This is the 21st Century. Keeping zoo animals in small cages or tigers or lions tethered to a chain or drugged for photographs is totally going back to our age of ignorance. Riding elephants is also an outdated tourist attraction. 

[Andrew Dwyer]

A bit of fake news here !!
Like one of those FB clickbait stories .
He pats the lion and it doesn't like it and makes a move towards him !
Robbie then is " s$&t scared " about walking past the animal to get out.
As others have stated: the sad part of this is a magnificent animal is in a cage on a 2 foot chain !!


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[catman20]

1 hour ago, tominbkk said:

Hope he learned something that day. Is he drunk or something? Stupid man.

stupid !!!!!!!!!!!

[gchurch259]

You never get a chance to make a second first impression. When I saw this man my first impression; Unkept nondisciplined individual, then proved his is stupid also ,

 

Quality tourist, not !! 

[FritsSikkink]

Misleading title, well done

[dotpoom]

If that's an attack.....my wife should have been locked up years ago for life.

[jacko45k]

Stupid idea to let tourists into such close proximity of such animals.

It could remove an arm like an apple from a tree.

I felt better that it appeared the animal was not sedated, but sadly might well be in the future.

It is all so cruel and exploiting.

[Briggsy]

His behaviour and language are typical of the residents of Garden City, a dump of a non-town built forming the edge of Deeside Industrial Estate, soon to be taken over by Latvians and Lithuanians who may well make an improvement.

[helloagain]

1 hour ago, tominbkk said:

Hope he learned something that day. Is he drunk or something? Stupid man.

Stupid is stupid does

[scotchonrocks]

Far less dangerous than getting involved with a Thai Gir :-)

[helloagain]

What is interesting you reported it but not say which zoo. Why are you proctecting that zoo

[Ratcher]

Stupid idiot. I'm sick of seeing the antics of drunken Europeans in Thailand. Gives us Ex Pats a bad name and lowers our standing in the eyes of Thai people.