Lion Kills Intern

  Do you ever get a feeling something bad is going to happen when you see someone cleaning a wild animal's cage at the zoo or on tv? Like they're going to get bitten or killed? Well unfortunately that bad thing has happened. Less than 72 hours ago,a young woman named Dianna Hanson was killed by a lion that had escaped it's cage at an exotic animal park in California where she was a volunteer intern. The Fresno County Coroner’s Office says the 550-pound lion used its paw to lift a partially open door and escape a smaller cage before attacking and killing Hanson, who was cleaning a larger enclosure at Cat Haven, about 45 miles east of Fresno. She was on the phone with a co-worker in the moments before she was killed, and the co-worker became concerned when the conversation ended abruptly and Hanson failed to call back, Coroner David Hadden said Thursday. Investigators told Hadden the 5-year-old African lion had been fed when he charged Hanson, breaking her neck and killing her with an apparent swipe of a paw. Sheriff’s deputies responding to an emergency call from the park found Dianna Hanson severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County's Sheriff Lt.Robert Miller said. Another park worker had been unsuccessful in trying to lure the lion into a separate pen, so deputies shot and killed the animal to reach the woman, who died at the scene, he said. And although they shot and killed the huge animal and deemed the attack as an accident,Diana's father is still suing them for the murder of his daughter. They feel he shouldn't do that because it was just an accident and they have been incident free since 1998.
Like Seriously,what type of explanation is that to a man who just lost his daughter while working at your animal park?? That man has every right to sue the animal park for his daughter's death. Just because you've been incident free doesn't mean you can unexpectedly have one. Then for one,you're dealing with exotic animals and you have to be careful with them and you ALWAYS have to watch them. For all you know,the animals could be plotting to get you alone and kill you for years and you wouldn't have a clue. With this case,it appears that that could've been what the lion was planning to do. The evidence shows that the lion mauled Dianna and sunk it's teeth right into her neck to kill her. And oh if you don't know,lions do that to kill their prey when they're in the wild. So,he could have been plotting to kill Dianna from the moment he laid eyes on her or he could have just snapped and went out to kill Dianna just because she was there. All I am saying is,just because they haven't had any accidents like that,doesn't mean that they weren't bound to happen. They should ALWAYS keep a close eye on those animals.