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-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Come Bite Me!' Right...
2004-11-03
A man leaped into a lion's den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts. "Jesus will save you!" the 46-year-old man shouted at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away. "Come bite me!" he said with both hands raised, television footage showed.
"Hokay," said the lion.
One of the lions, a large male with a shaggy mane, bit the man in his right leg before zoo workers drove it off with water hoses and tranquilizer guns. Newspapers said that the lions had been fed earlier in the day, otherwise the man might have been more seriously hurt ... or worse.
This always happens to me, too.
Posted by:Chuck Simmins

#7  Lol Mike!

Proof that delusional disorders do cross cultural boundaries.

Poor lion--he wasn't sure what to do with this weird guy on his turf.

The only "miracle" is that the nice lion didn't kill the guy. I think the man, not the lion, should've been shot with tranquilizer guns and water hoses. Hope they arrest the dude.
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-11-03 7:49:40 PM  

#6  PAGAN Lions--Why do they hate us?

Sorry--I'm just anal that way.
Posted by: Dar   2004-11-03 4:51:23 PM  

#5  Reminds me of an old joke: a priest/minister is out hiking alone when he's attacked by a bear. He can't escape; the critter has him cornered; as it's about to maul him, he cries out in desperation, "Oh, Lord, make this bear a Christian!"

The bear pauses, makes the sign of the cross, and says, "Bless us, O Lord, and this thy food, which we are about to receive . . . ."
Posted by: Mike   2004-11-03 3:51:28 PM  

#4  Lions. Why do they hate us?

It had to be asked.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2004-11-03 3:31:31 PM  

#3  This guy's name wasn't Daniel was it?
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-11-03 3:26:25 PM  

#2  He should have gone to a british zoo or somewhere where the lions are more under catholic influence.
No point in trying to convert a lion in Taipei who's already become buddhist!
Posted by: Quarterdeck   2004-11-03 3:25:23 PM  

#1  poor lions! That must have been so traumatic for them.
Posted by: 2b   2004-11-03 3:21:45 PM  

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