Thursday, July 24, 2008

Random video of the day


In case you haven't seen it yet, this video of Christian the Lion is apparently one of the latest random internet videos spreading around even though the footage is over 30 years old. I saw it on the local news the other morning. The video is kind of corny with the music, but it's a pretty good story, and it's verified by Snopes. How the hell did a department store get a lion cub in the first place? According to the wikipedia entry, the shirtless guy at the end, who apparently arranged reintroducing the animal into the wild, was killed by poachers in the late '80s. That's kind of scary.

1 comment:

Jay Buchanan said...

Wow, that's cool. Interesting coincidence that they managed to find him again.