Man has jumped into Tiger enclosure

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

At Yorkshire wildlife park.Anyone seen the video? I live local to it and the video of the man wagging his finger at it telling it no like a toddler is shocking.Hes lucky he wasnt killed.

Exactly. Far too many know it all posters who have obviously never been to the Park but "know" that is is easy to fall into the enclosure

He is quite clearly displaying the Makaton sign for ‘naughty’ or ‘very bad’ towards the tiger (hands in fist position with little fingers raised) appears to be remonstrating for the tiger to stop.

The fencing is more than adequate. If some is absolutely determined to go into an enclosure, for whatever reason, it can almost always be done.

Stop blaming the Park

Probably someone with learning disabilities.

I think calling him a moron is really unkind. This just isn’t something a ‘normal’ person would do, it’s clear he was absolutely not in his right mind in some way.

It’s not as if there’s only one small fencing between humans and big cats at zoos. There’s usually huge fencing and spacing inbetween each.

as for the poster who said ‘what if the tiger develops a taste for humans’ - are you actually ok?!

You can't have the tigers basically locked indoors though. Plus they live on several acres.

Places like ywp shouldn’t have to build everything to the standard that a very determined adult man with no sense of risk or danger cannot possibly get in. They might as well pack up now. Same as any place with any animals, any heights, any heavy machinery, any open water, any food someone might be allergic to etc etc. if someone can’t be on their own for a second because they are a danger to themselves or others then you can’t take them to places like this.

Oh God, that’s awful. I really feel for parents
whose kids have similar disabilities. I really think the time has come for a root and branch overhaul of how we are going to keep so many disabled adults safe in 20 years.

You can't put a roof on it. There are two tiger enclosures each larger than a full sized football pitch with trees growing inside.

Someone determined enough could also get into the lion enclosure (8 acres) or the polar bear enclosure (10 acres).

People react in various ways after traumatic incidents. The poster mentioning a refund/compensation etc reminds me of a customer (I worked in travel) that I dealt with in the aftermath of 9/11. He was still in the UK when it happened but was due in NY a few weeks later and had reservations for dinner at Windows on The World. Of all the customers I spoke to, helped with new travel plans etc, gave advice to etc, he was the worst. He literally wanted his dinner reservation fee refunded immediately with compensation. I couldn’t do that, he’d made the reservation with WOTW!!! He would not let it go and was very difficult. In the end a Manager had to be really quite short with him.

That’s really sad to know and the posts being harsh below aren’t needed.

Sadly I do agree.

I think we need to hold society to a higher standard over the safety of disabled people and members of the public they might harm.

I have a horrible feeling of dread thinking about the future as there are so many severely autistic children now and one day they will be adults.

A tiger will roam up to 12 miles a night in the wild. “Several acres” isn’t enough.

Instead of digging yourself a hole, you could instead ask MNQH to delete your ‘FAFO’ comment, stop posting and hide the thread. This is embarrassing.

People willingly choose to get killed in one of the most frightening and painful ways possible all of the time do they?

Why on earth do people upload this stuff to social media? That poor man is someone’s son, brother, friend. He’s died of his injuries. The whole scenario is heartbreaking.

Another image of the enclosures - this time from Google earth.

The video I’ve seen looks like he was pointing his finger and telling it to sit. He looked like he was trying to assert authority. It wasn’t clearly sign language.
It has not been officially stated if he had any learning difficulties, carers, or anything else.

Perhaps he saw someone taming a tiger or other wild animal on TikTok and thought he’d impress everyone. We just don’t know the circumstances / what motivated him to do this. Yet so many posters here are acting like they do….

I really hope if/when it comes to the light that this person was mentally impaired, people will feel ashamed for their vile, disgusting comments.

Why are you so unpleasant?

Do you call all mentally disabled people morons? Ffs he clearly wasn’t ‘right’, this wasn’t some typical IQ person doing a stupid stunt for TikTok

And I would call you a moron for being so ignorant.

Please learn to read. I am not blaming the park for this, I'm just stating that if you're gonna cage an predator for humans to gawk at, you should make it pretty impossible to get in there.