Kevin Richardson & his lions

[BA0701]

(08-31-2020, 03:16 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(08-31-2020, 02:48 AM)BigLion39 Wrote: Yeah I know of 2 reportes that came close to being lunch (possibly) and then one , if I remember  correctly, female employee was killed, rather rescently too. 
Anything can  happen  so let's just hope nothing bad happens!

I wonder about what cases you are talking about, you and @BA0701 ?

I mean from your discussion it´s easy to get expression, that Richardson would have been involved to some death of some woman, but claim is vague and more like rumor. I think, that when talking about this serious things, then there should be also something to what it´s based on. Not only "if I remember" or something. Nasty rumors spread fast and if source for such is wildfact, then case should be solid, not something what posters arent sure at all even themselves and not giving anything to what some claim is/are based on.

Maybe you talk about this case, if so, I recommend to read this article carefully and think over if Richardson can be blamed in some way or not. And if, in what way really. 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/woman-mauled-death-lion-kevin-richardson-lion-whisperer-south-africa-private-reserves-lion-walks-spd/

@Shadow that is the case I referred to in which the woman died. In the video I posted just a couple of comments back in this thread, you can see very clearly that his male lion keyed in on the 60 Minutes reporter, and came very close to attacking her. In his comments made after that young reporter died, he said he had taken his lions out for a walk, and that nobody was supposed to be outside during that time. The reporter walked out to her car, if I recall correctly, and at that time one of his lionesses attacked and subsequently killed her. It should have been his responsibility, and the other employees on his reserve, to make sure that nobody was outside during that period, it was not the responsibility of the young woman, simply because she had no way of knowing when lions were out or not. Bottom line, if Richardson wants to go out on his own private reserve, and eat raw buffalo with his lions, and make videos of it, that is up to him and is his business, but he should not be allowing outside people to be on the property endangering them in the process. There was another post in the  Lions in South-Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia thread here , where another private reserve owner was recently killed by two of his rescued lionesses. If someone wishes to endanger themselves getting close to these animals, then that is on them, but they should not be allowing others to share their experience with them. It is the same thing when Timothy Treadwell was killed, and in the process got his girlfriend killed. These people convince others that because they have not been harmed or killed yet, that they somehow have mastered how to deal with these animals, when in fact it is the animals who are showing tremendous restraint, and can simply snap at any given moment, resulting in serious harm or death. My biggest problem with it is, more times than not (I understand it did not happen in the examples being discussed) it is the animals who will end up being destroyed for no other reason than being who and what they were born to be. I find that to be incredibly selfish, and I find people like Richardson to be very dangerous due to the false sense of security that they portray. Reply