Yang Jinhai, 27,
had posted several online messages about how optimistic he was about
starting a new life after getting a job as a security guard in Chengdu
in southwest China's Sichuan province.
But he quickly
found the job boring and monotonous and moved instead to a job in a
printing factory where he also then resigned, saying that he felt there
was more to life.
Horrified witnesses watch a man being dragged around by a Bengal tiger at Chengdu Zoo in China
After going to
the local zoo he wrote how depressing it was to see the ‘noble and
magnificent tigers’ living in such humble surroundings, where they were
caged and unable to follow their natural instincts to hunt and kill.
He then announced that he had decided to sacrifice himself in order to provide the Bengal tigers with support.
Eyewitness Feng
Lin said: ‘He climbed up the outside of the cage and jumped inside
expecting, I assume, that the tigers would pounce on him. Instead the
two tigers, a male and a female, seemed more nervous than anything else
and the female actually ran off.
‘He
then tried to antagonise the tigers by pulling faces at them.
Eventually he was attacked by the male where he was cut after being
scratched and bitten before he could be rescued by zoo keepers who fired
a tranquilliser dart at the male tiger.’
They then pulled the man out of the cage.
Yang's
family told local media Mr Jinhai had been depressed for a long time
and said that he had been taken to a home where he was given psychiatric
counselling to cope with his problems. posted by Emanto Ngaloru Feb 17, 2014.
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