Bloody end to Christian challenge in the lions' den [View All]

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Telegraph
(Filed: 04/11/2004)

A man "with psychological problems" leapt into the lions' den at Taipei zoo yesterday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity.

He was bitten on the leg and arm for his efforts.


The intruder approaching the lions at Taipei zoo

"Jesus will save you!" the 46-year-old man shouted at two lions lounging under a tree a few yards away at Taiwan's main zoo.

"Come bite me!" he shouted, with both hands raised. And they did. Without panicking, the man fell back on a stone ridge, as one lion jumped at him, biting him in the arm. It then clawed at his trousers before retreating in a scene captured by television news cameras.

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