That’s not a lion, bru!

A man appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s court recently on charges of trespassing after being discovered at the National Zoological Gardens in Pretoria, caught in the act of trying to get eaten.

His crime, he claims, was inspired by the voices of his ancestors who told him to go on a quest in search of lion cubs. The search led him to the National Zoological Gardens, where the misguided visitor allegedly mistook tigers for lions and was discovered in a perilous position on a narrow wall between the tigers and lions’ enclosures.

A near call for the lucky man . . . he would most certainly have been tiger meat quicker than you can sear a tasty fillet steak.

Fall in love with baby white tiger

The question is: how can an African mistake a tiger for a lion? Were the ancestors being mischievous, or is he not quite with us? Or were the ingenious tigers cunningly disguised as lions?

Any way you look at it, the case of the Pretoria “lion hunter” is headline news . . . our message to him, “That’s not a lion, bru!”.