Shocking…

There is nothing heroic about this, probably stupid rather. But then reports say the man is somehow mentally disturbed.

According to reports, Chinese zoo keepers managed to save the life of a mentally disturbed man after he announced he wanted to improve the lives of caged tigers at a local zoo by offering them his own body to eat.

True to his words, Yang Jinhai, 27 who worked as a security guard in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province climbed up the outside of the cage and jumped inside.

An eyewitness- Feng Lin said “expecting, I assume, that the tigers would pounce on him. Instead the two tigers, a male and a female, seemed more nervous than anything else and the female actually ran off.

He then tried to antagonise the tigers by pulling faces at them. Eventually he was attacked by the male where he was cut after being scratched and bitten before he could be rescued by zoo keepers who fired a tranquilliser dart at the male tiger.”

After writing online that he does not like how ‘noble and magnificent tigers’ are living in such humble surroundings, where they were caged and unable to follow their natural instincts to hunt and kill—- Yang then announced that he had decided to sacrifice himself in order to provide the Bengal tigers with support.

And he did exactly this—but he was damn lucky.