He spoke ok asking someone to take a photo of him with the tiger in the background and thanking her .( before he scaled the fence ) 
Who will ever know what went through his mind ? 

Quote from: Dextrous63 on October 12, 2026, 03:46:51 PMApparently he was using Makaton hand signals.  Witnesses who heard and saw him seemed convinced he was autistic.  But maybe we'll not know for a while (if ever) as his family has asked that he isn't named.

More details have been released now,  including who the chap was. He was 22 yrs old.

The article also said he had been a child actor in a couple of things,  and was a University Graduate.
If that is true,  I don't see how he could have been autistic?
He was visiting the zoo with his 21 yrs old partner..

I thought it was still used in Wales ... Myfanwy, or something like that.

I think it's an old name no longer used in the UK or US for rather obvious reasons. It is still used by foreigners

https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-named-fanny/celebrity-lists

On reflection, I remember a certain Fanny Craddock.  A not indiscrete name in those days.
I'm sure that her parents were totally unaware of the use of her name in certain locations.

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 04:39:49 PMBeats all that unpleasantness needed to get your 40 virgins who are probably virgins for a very good reason too.

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Read this wild fact today and felt like sharing it... 

Airplanes are said to taxi around the airport because in the early 1900's a couple of French blokes weee watching some planes move around a field slowly and said that it reminded them of taxis driving around Paris.  The term stuck.

Was it (the atheist) Descartes who, on his deathbed, was asked by a priest if he recanted the devil, and answered along the lines of "I hardly think now is a good time to make new enemies"?

It would cause confusion across the Atlantic too.