Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
How about sharing that story?Well it wasn't an attack in the wild per say. Was actually at a mini zoo like place called The Animals of Montana in Bozeman, Montana. I had went there for a week to visit because a friend of mines dad owned it and I was looking to kinda get into that field of study at the time. My first morning there we went down and were preparing slop for the grizzly bears and I was just kinda watching this worker off in the distance as he was doing his daily duties of feeding and cleaning in the cages. Next thing I know a lion pounced on him and he was wrestling it. I looked over at my friend and was like "uh that can't be good?" and she was like "oh that's normal, he always does that."

Anyways so I am now super intrigued and watched for like 5 minutes or so before he then hit the ground and started yelling bear spray. So someone runs and gets the spray and then gives it to my friend and she has no idea what to do with it. The only people down at the zoo part at this time are me, 2 girls, and a young kid besides that worker. So of course it comes down to me to use the fucking bear spray on this lion. After about 10 minutes of spraying and the worker wrestling all 3 of us are blind as fuck and the worker somehow pushed the lion off and closed himself inside the lions cage. This leaving me and the lion on the outside. The lion runs directly into me knocking me over and then proceeds to run the other way probably not realizing I was a person and is just in a blind rage. From there I just ran blindly towards voices until I was out of the zoo enclosure.
That was my first hour of being there. lol. Needless to say I didn't go into the profession.

The guy was incredibly lucky he was like 6'6" and could match the lions height on its hind legs. He was so close to death its crazy. He had one tooth almost all the way us his nostril and the another had split the back of his head open. He held the jaw at that position for almost the entire time I sprayed. Pretty nuts.