During recent days, a piece of CCTV episode is being rapidly spread throughout internet. It was recorded on the last Saturday, spotted that a couple was self-driving in the Beijing Badaling Wildlife Park for sightseeing together with their child and the wife’s mother. However, during their visit around the tiger area in the park, the young wife got off their car for about a few seconds, and in a meanwhile, a wild, strong tiger suddenly appeared at her back and grabbed her backwards to the side of the road until she was finally pulled out of the CCTV pictures.
The tragedy happened when the husband and the mother both rushed out of the car for trying to save the young lady’s life from the tiger’s mouth. Although the video does not cover the bloody scene of the fighting process, the mother was finally bitten to death by another tiger when she was striving for protecting her daughter, and the daughter was severely injured, and for now, she is still under the medical treatments, and it ramins unsure about whether she would recover or not.
Hot debate arises regarding who should be liable for the death and injury. As lawyers, we should speak of laws and regulations. If the park can prove that they have fulfilled their management duties, such as what have been reported, e.g. posting warnings, building up and maintaining the defense equipments, having safeguards supervising the area, forbidding visitor to open the car doors and windows or even get off the car, etc., the park shall not be liable for such death and injury caused by its wild animals. It was the family members, as visitors, chose to travel in that park, thus they must obey all the rules and regulations issued and suggested by the park. And if any animal assault occurred due to the breach of rules, the violator should bear certain liabilities with no doubts.
When we saw in the video that the old mother jumped out of the car and ran after the trace of the tiger without hesitation, we eulogized the great maternal love. Ironically, it was the young lady’s babyism forfeited her great mother’s life.
It would be too naive for someone to think that the foregoing would be the only, typical thing happened in the world. The truth is, there are many similar tragedies taken place in different countries due to the violation of certain rules. Katherine Chappell, an American film visual effects editor who worked on
Game of Thrones
, was visiting Johannesburg’s
Lion Park
when a lion lunged through the window of her vehicle, which she had opened to lean out and take photographs, against park rules, and bit her on the neck. Chappell died in Lion Park of her wounds before the paramedics arrived. A man from Switzerland was bitten by a brown bear when he was visiting the Bern Municipal Zoo and was climbing up the bounding wall to get closer to the bear.
We call such pity tragedies in Chinglish as “No Zuo No Die”, which means “you would probably live in a better life if you do not borrow troubles for yourself”. Just like the song expresses in below MTV, there are so many dumb ways to die, and it is all about following certain rules to live in a better life. Be careful, because your contempt of rules would lead to the dumbest way to die.