Need a break from politics?
If so, check out this video going viral of an orangutan grabbing some guy’s leg who got too close to the ape’s cage at a zoo in Indonesia:
— xan (@sundaykisseu) June 7, 2022
They better not “Harambe” this orangutan because “he did nothing wrong”:
The orangutan did nothing wrong. He just wanted a shirt. https://t.co/uFjWbrQrXG
— Cassandra. PETA KILLS ANIMALS (@CassandraRules) June 7, 2022
According to Snopes, it happened at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in Indonesia:
The incident occurred on June 6, 2022, at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in the province of Riau, Indonesia, according to local news coverage. (Date corrected from previous tweet.) https://t.co/i0HABjOzeT
— snopes.com (@snopes) June 7, 2022
Apparently, the idiot in the clip was trying to get a video of the orangutan and got instant karma instead. From Snopes:
According to akurat.co, an Indonesian news site, this video was filmed on June 6, 2022, at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in the province of Riau, and shows an orangutan named Tina grabbing a zoo visitor who got too close to her cage. According to riau.suara.com, another Indonesian news site, the visitor, a man named Hasan Arifin, had broken the zoo’s rules by climbing over a barrier that normally separates the animals from the visitors in order to get a video.
Neither the ape nor the idiot were injured:
Neither the visitor nor the orangutan were seriously harmed in the incident, according to the Indonesian news websites. While the viral video clip ends with the man’s leg still in the orangutan’s grasp, longer versions of the video show that this person was eventually able to pull himself free.
Full clip here:
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