A 19-year-old man in Brazil named Gerson who had
mental heatlh problems and a love of big cats

snuck into a lion enclosure in a park in Brazil called
Parque Zoobotanico Arruda Camara (Bica Park)

in a video, I saw him climbing down a tree into the
enclousure and a lion running toward him

when he was four feet from the ground,
the lion leaped up and tore him from the tree

Gerson got up for a moment before the lion pulled
him back on the ground

and, mercifully, I couldn’t see what happened,
but there was no doubt Gerson was dead

my hope is that Gerson is in a heaven, his sanity restored,
and able to play with peaceful, big cats there.

Bob Boyd