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Africa Subsaharan

Wales rugby star Scott Baldwin bitten by lion in South Africa

2017-10-01

[Sky News] The hooker is forced to miss a match after the lion did not take kindly to being petted - with the incident caught on camera.

Video footage posted on the Twitter feed of former rugby player Andy Goode shows Baldwin reaching through metal bars to touch the big cat.

As he strokes the animal on the head as it lays on the ground, it suddenly snaps. Baldwin, 29, is heard to cry out and pulls his arm away before a warden tells a colleague to get him first aid.

The injury, which needed stitches, occurred on Wednesday during a pre-match visit to a safari park. Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".

Posted by:Besoeker

#5 Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".

He'll never buy another pint. Now if he could just memorize some "Lion and Albert:

There were one great big Lion called Wallace;
His nose were all covered with scars-
He lay in a somnolent posture,
With the side of his face on the bars.

Now Albert had heard about Lions,
How they was ferocious and wild-
To see Wallace lying so peaceful,
Well, it didn’t seem right to the child.

So straightway the brave little feller,
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with it’s’orse’s ‘ead ‘andle
...And pushed it in Wallace’s ear.

You could see that the Liion didn’t like it,
For giving a kind of a roll,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with ‘im,
And swallowed the little lad ‘ole.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-01 16:22

#4 Fits the stereotype of more brawn than brain to a T.

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-10-01 16:13

#3 I've seen Rugby, what team drafted the lion?

Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-01 09:20

#2 I assume the reason this is not under Darwin Award is because the lion didn't take his hand off?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-10-01 05:03

#1 "Does your lion bite?"

Posted by: SteveS 2017-10-01 04:45

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