Panda Attack

This has to be my favourite story of the year.

BEIJING (AP) - A drunken Chinese tourist bit a panda at the Beijing Zoo after the animal attacked him when he jumped into the enclosure and tried to hug it, state media said Wednesday.

Zhang Xinyan had drunk four pitchers of beer at a restaurant before "stumbling to the zoo" nearby and stopping off at the pen holding a sleeping 6-year-old male panda, Gu Gu, on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said.

"He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand" and jumped over a waist-high railing down into the enclosure, the newspaper said. "When he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it."

Startled, Gu Gu bit Zhang in the right leg, it said. Zhang, a 35-year-old migrant labourer from central Henan province, got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued, the paper said.

"I bit the fellow in the back," Zhang was quoted as saying in the newspaper. "Its skin was quite thick."

Other tourists yelled for a zookeeper, who soon got the panda under control by spraying it with water, reports said. Zhang was hospitalized.

Newspaper photographs showed Zhang lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages and several seams of stitches running down his leg.

The Beijing Youth Daily quoted Zhang, a father of two who was visiting Beijing for the first time, as saying that he had seen pandas on television and "they seemed to get along well with people."

"No one ever said they would bite people," Zhang said. "I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don't remember much."

Ye Mingxia, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Zoo, confirmed the incident happened but would not give any details. She said Gu Gu was "healthy and uninjured."

"We're not considering punishing him now," Ye said in a telephone interview. "He's suffered quite a bit of shock."

Source: Canada.com

Classic.

Dave!

They're an endangered species! Don't be bitin the pandas! :mad:

manonthemoon

DaveMcG wrote:

They're an endangered species! Don't be bitin the pandas! :mad:

Well, if they stopped biting people they mightnt be so 'endangered'!!

manonthemoon

DaveMcG wrote:

They're an endangered species! Don't be bitin the pandas! :mad:

Well, if they stopped biting people they mightnt be so 'endangered'!!

I dissagree there should be more of this carry on

BITE MORE PANDAS

BITE MORE PANDAS

Dave!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! They're so cuddly

Archeron

manonthemoon wrote:

Well, if they stopped biting people they mightnt be so 'endangered'!!

I dissagree there should be more of this carry on

BITE MORE PANDAS

BITE MORE PANDAS

Well you have my support for a Panda Biting forum. Serves them right, bloody big cuddly looking attention seeking endangered monotone idiots.

RE*AC*TOR

If a drunken Chinese man tried to hug me while I was sleeping I'd bite him too.

Obviously the bite musn't have been too bad if he was able to bite back.

Rhyme

Brian Fantana: "I tried to get an interview with him, but they said no, you can't do that he's a live bear, he will literally rip your face off."

:rolleyes:

bluto63

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Obviously the bite musn't have been too bad if he was able to bite back.

The guy had had 4 pitchers. He was obviously a little drunk and probably didn't feel much of the bite