Video captures lion's playful lunge onto subject during photo shoot

[Admin]

Video shot by the Toronto Star's Bernard Weil, during a magazine photo shoot by fellow Star staffer Richard Lautens, shows the hazards of working with powerful 400 pound animals, even trained ones. In the video, Leo the lion playfully but unexpectedly tackles the main subject of the shoot, a martial arts teacher, breaking her ribs and bruising her lung in the process.

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[Cobra]

Thats one hell of a playful little puddy tat
I guess she was very lucky!

 

[Simon Woodward]

Wow! Scary.

4 broken ribs!
It all happens in such a calm, peaceful way.

It has made me think twice about doing a shoot with a lion! lol

(I had problems getting the video to play from their site.
Here is a direct link...
http://media.thestar.com/video/LionTackle960x540.mov)

Thanks for posting this Rob


Simon

 

[foodpoison]

Regret that!