Blokes, here is a link to a news story on a rhino photo shoot gone wrong.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/wor...photo-gored-by-rhino

Apparently the advert for the lodge says "enjoy the compnay of rhinos at close range"

I bet she did not enjoy this encounter.

What part of WILD animals do these people not get?
Even a domestic cow will get you if they get a chance.

I smell a lawsuit coming. It happens every year in Yellowstone. People getting too close to the bison. They have at least a dozen gorings per year there because of stupidity.

Rhinos are really amazing animals. Having worked around three of the five species, White, Black and Greater One Horned, one thing everyone is taught from Day One, they are unpredictable and fast as hell.

They are interesting animals but even captive reared individuals will and do react in unexpected manners when startled.

there is no vaccination for stupidity and no known cure....

I had the privilege of visiting Yellowstone a few years ago. In the welcome centre they show a video of "what not to do" with a whole bunch of real clips of this kind of stupidity. It is hilarious and I sat and watched it a second time. I wish one could buy that DVD. People can be beyond stupid around wild animals.

Well done Rhino, but you botched the job - never mind there's no shortage of idiots and you'll get a chance next time round .... and you should pick up courage and nail the cars as they come by - like your ancestors used to do once upon a time when they roamed the wilds.

Not rhino, but on the same lines, back in the old days in RSA, there was a Lion park outside Joburg. Plastered with signs that lions are wild etc, etc, but every year, some idiot(s) would leap out of their car and run after the pretty kitty.

Not to be racist, but it seemed especially common among Asian visitors (Taiwanese), for some reason. They really did not understand that lions are not tame.

Actually, think of it, those lions could have been the role models for the canned RSA hunts.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
there is no vaccination for stupidity and no known cure....

That is really a good one!

Don't blame the young lady it was the host that screwed-up. If that were in the states that young couple would soon own that game park.