What a dumb son of a bitch.
Oh shit thats Altay, I was over there. 99% chance I would have gotten mauled trying to pet the kitty, but 1% is still worth the risk.
I bet she voted for this
Soo… vote for the green party to save the forests and snow leopards? I think I can get behind that.
Green Party will never win, you’re throwing your vote away.
You must be talking about the American FPTP voting system, right? Yeah, they have some serious problems with that, now don’t they.
And then you look at democracies with more pluralistic forms of voting and Green parties actually have decent representation. Here in Australia they teeter between being the third and fourth largest party (depending on the jurisdiction) and have been in governing coalitions a good number of times. Mandatory voting + ranked choice voting + proportional representative voting really changes things.
Yup.
Scotland’s greens, even when not managing to get into coalition government, hold the other parties to higher standards, managing to affect good change, punching above their weight.
I’ve heard good things about ranked voting. I really think that feature alone would improve many elections.
It’s a real privilege to know that your vote can never be cast away, wasted or exhausted. I’ve literally never voted for the two biggest parties as my #1 choice, but my vote usually ends up with whomever I preference higher. In Australia we also give a candidate/party election funding based only on #1 votes, if they reach a certain quota, so even when my vote ends up with Labor (our major centre-left/centrist party) I’m actively contributing to the election coffers of a smaller party or independent and sending a message to the major parties.
Oh, that’s a pretty cool system. Every vote really matters.
Green Party usually gets a seat or two each election.
Green Party mfers can never be bothered to show up to primaries, but they sure are militant about getting everyone else to vote in the most convenient manner for a Republican win.
Well, that’s terrifying.
Indeed, I can’t believe it either… Being THAT dumb? Terrifying!
Idk man. Feels like punching down. She suffered terribly for her carelessness.
If I stuck my dick in a light socket and shocked myself really bad, would you feel sorry for me?
I have a hard time kicking someone while they’re down. Poor decisions? Yes.
You would expect people to shit on you after experiencing a highly traumatizing situation, described using words like “mauled”? She didn’t harm the animal, and the animal was not being abused, nor was it in captivity. She made a very bad decision, and has paid dearly for it. No need to shit on her.
I guess I really can’t argue with you on that. If I witnessed it, my first thought would be to help her and not berate her. I stand corrected.
I would try to explain to her how foolish she’d been, to make sure she understood what happened, in case having her face eaten wasn’t a learning experience enough.
She spent 10 minutes slowly sneaking up on a 40kg predator in its natural environment.
Yes, very bad idea. Looks like she lost at least a portion of her face for her bad idea, which is still terrifying.
Terrifying that the “education” system fails us all this bad. Dangerous idiots abound. That it’s only self harm, this time, is no less terrifying.
So, did she get the picture?
To not fuck with wildlife? let’s hope so.
I’ll bet it looked somewhat similar to this but a little more zoomed in.
The rare OG
Ok, but leopard(s) shouldn’t face consequences for that.
Agreed. Not to be countenanced.
Well, that was literal.
Did not expect to be alive for this day
except its a tiger relative, snow leopards are closely related to tigers than to leopards, so a tiger ate your face.
Remind me to invite you to my next party, you’re a riot.
Nypost? Surely there’s a more reputable publication that has this story…
But
They’re so flufffffyyyyyyyyyy
Tourons. We get so many here in the Yellowstone area.
Me when I see a wild domesticated cat
wild domesticated
Feral is a useful word :)
a feral would formally domestically, or descended from domesticated.
Assuming you mean “formerly domesticated”.
Domestication is a species-wide process. If you teach a tiger not to eat you (yet), it is tamed, not domesticated. Whereas a domesticated pig might eat you, but it couldn’t be mistaken for a boar.
So even feral animals are still domesticated. They still retain most of the traits we bred into them.
Feral populations that have been feral so long they’ve begun to lose their domesticated traits are rare and cause great debate as to how to classify them. See Dingos, variously described as dogs, wolves, or their own species.
If it’s a single domesticated animal that has adopted a “wild” lifestyle, that is a stray.
Darwin award goes to…
I wish harm to no one and no thing, but sometimes I find myself rooting for the animals and against the humans…
I long for the day when this community is just full of articles about actual leopards ripping off people’s faces for bothering them.
and even older days when this was about leopards ripping off people’s faces not because they bothered them, but because they literally voted for it.
there was a story where an actual bear dropped and killed a hunter. a black bear in a tree fell on a hunter and killed him.
