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Dumbest Tourist Ever Reaches From Car to Pet Lion and ....
Dumbest Tourist Ever Reaches From Car to Pet a Lion and Quickly Regrets it
A tourist on safari in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania leaned out of a window to stroke a lion just inches away and was made to instantly regret the decision
Daily Mirror UK, 9 JUN 2020
A tourist on safari had an incredibly lucky escape after deciding to lean out of a vehicle to stroke a wild lion.
The short clip was filmed on a tour of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, when visitors must not have believed their luck when the van was able to get within inches of two lions.
With the big cats seemingly happy to mind their own business as people inside the vehicle capture the moment on cameras, footage shows one man sitting within touching distance of the lions with the window wide open.
The temptation proves to be too much for one fellow passenger, who then leans across him to reach out of the window and stroke the lion's back.
It put the man sitting closest to the window in danger (Image: Maasai Sightings)
At first, the male lion doesn't seem to react as the man sitting closest pulls out his camera for another snap, but the mood quickly changes as the lion slowly turns its head to growl.
Panicked voices can be heard telling him to "close the window" as he nervously reaches to slide it back across.
Before he can, the intimidating lion roars angrily into the vehicle as he abandons his attempts and the camera ducks down behind one of the seats.
The window was wide open (Image: Maasai Sightings)
The lion is then shown to be on its feet staring at the tourists as the man scrambles to shut the flimsy window for protection.
It was shared on YouTube by Maasai Sightings with the title 'Still the dumbest tourist ever?' and the description reads: "A tourist in Serengeti decided to touch a male lion and almost got her face ripped off. This is a very dumb thing to do and you can easily get yourself killed or banned from a national park by doing this."
People were left dumbstruck by the clip, with one writing: "Somebody has a brain the size of a flea sitting between their ears."
Another said: "Lions are freaking strong... that window wouldn't hold Mufasa back if he wanted to get in."
A third replied: "People see lazy lions in zoos, or snoozing during the day in the parks, and have absolutely no idea how freakin' fast a lion actually is. I mean, less than a second and this guy could've had a faceful of claws."
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