Nonsensical Behavior
In 2016, a local man went over the zoo’s safety barrier and into the lion cage at the Santiago Metropolitan Zoo in Chile. The horrific deed, according to a note found in the man’s clothing, was an apparent suicide attempt.
Before approaching the zoo’s two resident lions, the man entered the den and stripped off his clothes. The anonymous man began taunting the cats while repeating “extremely apocalyptic, very religious” proverbs, which one spectator described as “very apocalyptic, very religious.”