I Only Have Eyes For Zoo

Must be zoo day in the news today.

Item: A jobless South Korean man decided to draw attention to his plight by climbing into an enclosure holding two rhinoceroses at the Seoul Zoo. The rhinos are reputed to be very mean tempered, even for rhinos. The man was lucky to have escaped with his life.

Police and zoo officials said Monday that the man, identified only by his family name Lee, went to the zoo in the capital Seoul over the weekend and tried at first to draw attention to himself by breaking into an enclosure housing giraffes,

Zookeepers prevented him from climbing the fence of that enclosure, but he broke free and scaled the fence of a pen housing a pair of rhinos known for having a mean streak, the officials said.

Lee spent only a few moments with the rhinos and climbed a tree in the enclosure where he remained for about four hours, shouting out to visitors about how he had lost his job and other bad breaks in life, they said.

There is no word on what job the man had held prior to his recent problems. We're guessing it was one that didn't require a lot of brain power, though.

Item: Meanwhile, in Kiev, a man decided to see whether or not God exists. Shouting that "God will save me if he exists," the man climbed into an enclosure at the Kiev zoo that holds lions.

"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.

"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."

The man died. Maybe he should have kept his shoes on. Or gone to visit the rhinos.

(Waiting for the trifecta here - we just know there will be another zoo story!)