Teen mauled to death after entering zoo's lion enclosure

[obsidian]

https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/world-news/teen-mauled-to-death-by-lion-after-climbing-into-zoo-enclosure/

A troubled teenager who dreamed of becoming a lion tamer was mauled to death in front of horrified zoo-goers after climbing a 20-foot fence to get into the big cats’ enclosure.

Gerson de Melo Machado, 19, snuck into the lionesses’s pen at Brazil’s Parque Zoobotanio Arruda Camara in the city of Joao Pessoa on Sunday, scrambling over a wire-topped fence to climb down a tree inside the lions’ pen, Brazilian outlet O Correio Braziliense reported.

Horrified visitors watched helplessly as lioness Leona ran over to the foot of the tree as Machado slowly climbed down — then suddenly pounced on him, video shared on X shows.

[Rambone]

He won’t ever try that again

A Getbigger till the bloody end….

[AbrahamG]

To be such a stupid fuck, I consider this a mercy killing. 

[Rambone]

A valiant effort to say the least…..

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[Royalty]

To be such a stupid fuck, I consider this a mercy killing.

[illuminati]

No need to feed that lion tonight - Lado chose his method of death.

[Rambone]

No need to feed that lion tonight - Lado chose his method of death.

But the lion on top of the Machado isn’t as hungry as the lion at the bottom of the Machado

[Dave D]

But the lion on top of the Machado isn’t as hungry as the lion at the bottom of the Machado

But the food is always there when he wants it.

[illuminati]

But the lion on top of the Machado isn’t as hungry as the lion at the bottom of the Machado

Correct - because the lion at the top, when she wanted the food it was there.