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Sunday, May 6, 2012

FIND FACTS-MONDAY-5/7/12- LADY ATTACKED BY CHEETAHS

A tourist who, along with a child, was mauled by two cheetahs at the petting area of a wildlife park in South Africa lived to talk about it, saying she decided to play dead in hopes she'd survive. "Something inside me just said, 'Don't move. Don't move at all," Violet D'Mello told the Port Elizabeth Herald. "Don't react, just play dead'." D'Mello, from Scotland, said her husband was taking pictures of her with the cheetahs at the Kragga Kamma Game Park when one grabbed the leg of a nearby child. The girl got free, though with deep scratches that required stitches, and as her brother ran away D'Mello reached out to grab him. As I stopped him, something jumped me from behind," she said. A guide pulled the cheetah off her, but not before it had pawed at her head. Then the second bit D'Mello's legs, keeping her pinned down. "It all happened in just a few minutes," she said of the incident on April 28, "but it was a nightmare." Blood oozes from the neck of Violet D'Mello after the attack. "They weren't being vicious. You could tell they (the cheetahs) were just excited, but it became serious very quickly." The cheetahs are brothers that have been hand-reared since birth. The bitten child, Camryn Malan, had wanted to see the cheetahs after doing a school report on the animals. "They are not sleeping," Samuel Malan said of his children. "They wake up screaming. I keep seeing it ... Just to see that thing biting that lady." What would you have done if this had happened to you? Please use complete sentences and don't forget spell check.

8 comments:

  1. I don't know what would happen if it was me.

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  2. probly layed there

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  3. That is crazy. I would be just scared i guess.

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  4. If this was would have happened to me i wouldn't like cheetahs any more they shouldn't have let her close anyway.

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  5. I Would Be Scared.

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  6. I Would Be Scared !

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  7. I don't know what I would have done. I would have been to scared to react.

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  8. i agree with nia

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