Unsporting Behavior: Let the Games be gone?

thebeijinger — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:00:00 +0800

It was only a year ago that Beijing hosted the Olympics, but it doesn’t seem to have inspired you. tbj sent Sebastien Labarre and Sam Nankivell out to find out why more people weren’t playing sports.

"My back hurts, I’m too busy, and my gym was mysteriously shut down.” Tina Florin, 26, Sweden

Out of sight, out of mind shortcut leads to tiger attack.

thebeijinger — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:05:56 +0800

On March 7th, 2009, in a feat of thinking worthy of a Darwin Award, a man was killed attempting to take a shortcut through Badaling Safari World tiger enclosure. The young Guo and his two older companions were walking down from a section of the Great Wall when they came across a series of fences. Guo and his two companions climbed two 3.6m chain link fences and hopped a meter high electric fence to take a shortcut down the mountain, all while reading signs about dangerous animals and rationalizing their plan with an out of sight, out of mind policy.

Before a hundred meters in, a tiger came into sight and very much into mind. They dropped their packs and began running, but only made it six or seven steps before the tiger overtook them and pounced on Guo’s throat. While Guo’s friends ran back to the fence to escape the tiger, a Badaling employee spotted the scene from a car and drove near to scare the tiger off. However, by this time Guo had already died due to severe neck wounds.

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Unsporting Behavior: Let the Games be gone?

Out of sight, out of mind shortcut leads to tiger attack.