What would you do?
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Here’s the situation: a lion has killed your wife and devoured her legs. You discover her remains. You have probably not much more than a tin of poison. What do you do?
Half-eaten wife used as bait to trap killer Tanzania lion
Tanzanian police have vowed to act after a villager laced with poison his wife’s remains to catch a killer lion.
Police told the BBC they will wipe out the rogue lions that are terrorising villages in the southern Lindi area.
When Selemani Ngongwechile found his wife’s half-eaten body, he calmly poisoned it, knowing the lion would return for the rest of its “meal”.
I imagine Ngongwechile cooly waiting to even the score and, later, finding somewhere within the circle described by the poison’s rapidity a dead lion. As Tony Soprano said, “Revenge … it’s like serving cold cuts.”
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2004.06.15 (Tue) • 22:39
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Posted by dana 2004.06.16, 00:25
i think i find the man’s calm behavior more disturbing than the rogue lions roaming about.
Posted by anonymous coward 2004.06.16, 00:51
it’s the responsible thing to do. i don’t find it disturbing at all. it was courageous and selfless. you could argue that he was trying to save his own skin, which is possible. but more than likely he was thinking about the rest of the local inhabitants.
Posted by Jer 2004.06.16, 01:37
They probably had enacted the standard poison-the-lion- with-my-dead-body marital clause. Not as applicable up here in the cold north but we do have the use-me-for-insulation-when-I-freeze-to-death clause.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2004.06.16, 09:21
Personally, I’d like to be mulched. But if my remains can help others in any way, I say go for it. (And, yes, I am an organ donor.)
Posted by Chas Porter 2004.06.16, 10:10
This is going to lead to nothing good. Next, the lions are going to plot revenge, then the townspeople will organize a vigilante posse, and before you know it, we’ll have a full-on gang war raging across the savanna.
Posted by cybermace5 2004.06.16, 10:18
when u live with somthing like that around u all the time, i guess you have the mindset to do something like this. still it’s pretty cold.
Posted by Brad 2004.06.17, 04:00
That’s one of the coldest things I’ve heard in a long time. Were I that guy, though, I would’ve waited until the lion came back and finished off my wife, then followed him home and got him, his mate and all his cubs. That would teach the lions a hard lesson about life.
Posted by pieman 2004.06.17, 19:58
Nine out of ten cats say they prefer it. A cunning plan that might just work.
Posted by brent 2004.06.21, 11:35
Get those legs back at any cost even if I had to pay for the next round (of leg)—or, any takers? Nah—guess they would have to be mine.
Posted by Cailean Babcock 2004.06.22, 13:08
Note: the poster got this backwards; the lion ate the woman’s upper body first, not her legs. Nonetheless gruesome. If I ever discovered my wife that way, I think there’d be a lot fewer lions in that area after that…
Posted by Arjuna 2004.07.23, 21:49
The lion behaved like an animal. The farmer behaved like a “human being”.
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