News: Lions shot and killed after man attempts suicide

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Two lions were shot and killed at a zoo in the Chilean capital of Santiago after a man jumped into the big cats' enclosure.

The man climbed over the fence Saturday and removed his clothes before approaching the lions, according to a statement posted on the Santiago Metropolitan Zoo Facebook page.

He was apparently attempting suicide, and a note was found in his clothes, Chilean media reported.

Zoo staff shot and killed two of the lions with live rounds to protect the man, the zoo's statement said.

"Due to the circumstances and to firstly protect the life of this person, we found ourselves obliged to apply all of our security protocols," the zoo's statement reads.

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Cherish

itsaphrodisi

Do they know tranquilizer darts are a thing? Even so, zoos shouldn't exist.

Abyssy

Disgusting

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He climbed into their enclosure and was trying to get them to attack and then some dumb person decides to kill the lions?

He was trying to commit suicide but it ended up resulting in the death of two beautiful creatures

. To be fair to the man though he clearly wasn't in the right frame of mind so I'm not gonna sit here and be too harsh on him but the people who shot the lions are a joke.

xox

Nutitle

RightAsRain

Hmmm only the stupid man was at fault here.....poor lions! He could have found a different way to commit suicide, not to make light of his anguish but yeah he should have tried pills or tall buildings.

K$Ellie

Lukey

Surely they have tranquillizers?

I'm sorry but I can not feel anything for the guy who was attempting to commit suicide, even if he needs help. I just, it's so annoying, those poor animals.

UnusualBoy

Sorry but the ones on the zoo are a bunch of idiots, they shoulda sedated the lions not sacrifice them to save that stupid man, ugh.

Hivy

Man, **** your pride, just take it on back, boy
Take it on back boy, take it back all night

Aciid

Ugh disgusting.

Can't_M!ss_This

My sympathy for this man went out the window when I read that two lions needlessly died because he's a dumbass.

JonginBey

Quote:

Due to the circumstances and to firstly protect the life of this person

Okay, but that's not what he wanted, and it surely wasn't the lions fault that he purposely invaded their space in hopes of dying

cheap

Despite that what he did was retarded, he's still human. I'm sure if y'all had a retard sibling you would want him saved over some animals.

Jet

So the life of a person who wants to die is worth more than 2 innocent animals?

Hi_im_new

Y'all kill me always trying to tell somebody the proper protocols of their job. Tranqulizers don't work instantly. Naturally they're going to try to save the life of a human before sparring an animal.

One minute y'all are advocates for mentally disturbed and suicidal people. So why attack him, when clearly he needs help.

Khal

Is this place purposefully stupid sometimes? You'd think it'd be common sense that they needed to stop the animals as fast as possible, so tranquilizer guns would obviously not work. I don't support shooting the lions btw.

jxck

That was really poorly though out - SUCH a shame that it resulted in the death of two beautiful lions. RIP babies

Tylerbv

What kind of idiot.. The zoo workers were dumb af too. Poor lions

Johnny Cash

WTF at the comments in this thread

Don't you understand that from the perspective of the zoo staff the most logical step was to save the person instead of the animals? I mean the man who tried to kill himself is an idiot for his plan and I do feel bad for the poor lions that died but the staff did the right thing. What else do y'all suggest? To watch while the lions eat him alive? to shoot the man?