VIDEO: the moment a lioness bit the hand of a man who ignored the warnings

Pietr Nortje, a 55-year-old South African man, was about to lose his right arm and had to be hospitalized urgently in a hospital for attempting to stroke a lioness in the Free State Province.

The feline was on the other side of a fence that separated animals from visitors. However, the incident happened because Pietr He put his hand to stroke a male lion and then tried to do the same with a female.

At first, it was said that the man had decided not to follow the rules despite the warnings. But a report of the authorities explained that the person in charge of the place had given him permission to touch the felines, these being, according to him, perfectly tamed.

The video was captured by the wife of Pietr Nortje (Source: Facebook)

Pietr and his wife had gone to Tikwe River Lodge – a popular hunting reserve – to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their marriage, but after the incident with the lioness, the craftsman by profession had to be urgently transferred to Katleho hospital, then to Pelonomi hospital.

According to this information, Nortje's state of health would have been considered serious because of septic shock.

In the video that's been circulating freely on the Internet in recent days, you can see Nortje put his arm to stroke the felines.
"If you bite me, I'll bite you!he said to the male lion, caressing him, then the lioness appears. "Come here darling, let dad caress you"he said to the woman before she could nail her teeth to her right forearm, penetrating almost to the bone.

At this moment, you hear his wife shouting: "It's biting! It's biting! ".

A spokesman for Tikwe River Lodge said that they had been touring for six years without any incident.

And despite the publication of the version that a bodyguard had given permission to touch the cats, the staff denied any responsibility for the accident. "There are signs everywhere to warn of dangers," exclaimed one of the owners.

The case of the rugby player

The feline bit his left hand and the player missed the match against his team, the Ospreys, against the cheetahs.

In the middle of the tour in South Africa, the team visited the Weltevreden Game Lodge, a very popular nature reserve in the country. It's there that I play a lion who was in his cage. Baldwin put his left hand between the bars to caress him and he reacted in the worst way.

After the ridiculous accident, Scott Baldwin apologized to fans via his Twitter account: "Sorry everyone for missing the game for a bite"

"When you get your hands on a fence and there is a lion, you can expect everything. He already had several warnings, so it was pretty stupid"Tandy, who said it was" one of the most ridiculous things in which I've been involved ".