Kor37 9 Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) Man Bites Panda at Beijing Zoo BEIJING (Sept. 20) - A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal's back, state media said Wednesday. Zhang Xinyan, from the central province of Henan, drank four jugs of beer at a restaurant near the zoo before visiting Gu the panda on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said. "He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand," and jumped into the enclosure, the newspaper said. The panda, who was asleep, was startled and bit Zhang, 35, on the right leg, it said. Zhang got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued, the paper said. "I bit the fellow in the back," Zhang was quoted as saying in the newspaper. "Its skin was quite thick." Other tourists yelled for a zookeeper, who got the panda under control by spraying it with water, reports said. Zhang was hospitalized. Newspaper photographs showed Zhang lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages and a seam of stitches running down his leg. The Beijing Youth Daily quoted Zhang as saying that he had seen pandas on television and "they seemed to get along well with people." "No one ever said they would bite people," Zhang said. "I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don't remember much." Ye Mingxia, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Zoo, confirmed the incident happened but would not give any details. She said Gu Gu was "healthy." "We're not considering punishing him now," Ye said in a telephone interview. "He's suffered quite a bit of shock." What an imbecile! Edited September 20, 2006 by Kor37 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Charface 0 Posted September 20, 2006 Shouldn't the zookeeper have sprayed the Chinaman with water? The bear did nothing wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kor37 9 Posted September 20, 2006 Shouldn't the zookeeper have sprayed the Chinaman with water? The bear did nothing wrong. The zookeeper would have been better off waving a six pack of beer in front of the man. That would have lured him away.... <_< Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mj 7 Posted October 9, 2006 So I guess this is kind of a counterexample to the points made about social drinking and income in one of the threads on this page, especially about alcohol killing off the weak brain cells, leaving the strong ones and making one more intelligent. I just read that in the thread about drinking and income. This guy with the panda.....that's what I tend to associate with alcohol...impaired judgement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites