A lady visiting New York’s Bronx Zoo Thursday climbed over the barrier to the lion exhibit and exclaimed, “King, I like you, I got here again for you,” in keeping with witnesses.
That is the second time in about two years {that a} girl has gotten into the exhibit.
At about 4 p.m., “employees had been notified {that a} girl had stepped over a public barrier close to the lion exhibit,” the zoo mentioned in an announcement. “The incident lasted solely a few minutes and the girl was gone when employees arrived on scene.”
Zoo officers mentioned they plan to press prison trespass prices if the girl is recognized.
The lady, who was wearing a purple slip costume and leopard print scarf, could be seen in video obtained by NBC New York waving roses on the bewildered lion. She then began throwing $100 payments within the air.
“I missed him a lot,” the girl is heard saying within the footage. A witness informed the information station that the girl additionally informed the lion “King, I like you, I got here again for you.”
The lions are separated from guests by a moat, in keeping with the zoo. Even when a customer climbs the barrier, they don’t seem to be in the identical house because the lions, officers mentioned.
The incident comes simply over two years after a girl, later recognized as Myah Autry, hopped the barrier to the lion enclosure and appeared to bounce for the wild animal.
Later, throughout a court docket look for an unrelated cost, she informed reporters: “I’m the lion now. Can’t you inform? Have you ever ever heard of reincarnation?”
Autry, who described the expertise as “religious,” added: “So no, I wasn’t fearing of the lion as a result of the lion beloved me. That’s why he got here to me and I let the lion know: Lion, I like you.”
She was later arrested on two prices of prison trespassing. She was additionally accused of getting into a giraffe enclosure on the identical day she visited the lions.
It is unclear if Autry was concerned in Thursday’s incident.
