Darwin Award

Once again we South Africans have managed to secure anouther all important Darwin Award. For those of you who don't know a Darwin Award is awarded to someone who manages to die in an act of complete stupidity thereby doing the human gene pool a favour.

As a Ranger, I am inured to the stupidity of the public when confronted with wild animals, but my daughter's experience in South Africa takes the cake.

 

in the Kruger National Park, where park authorities are scrupulous about warning people to remain within their cars at all times. A tourist driving through the park was motivated to ignore the rules when she spotted a lioness and her cubs.

 

The woman's husband recalls her saying the cubs were not posed correctly, so she nipped out of the car and picked one up to move it closer to its siblings. Needless to say, the lioness shared her with the cubs.