The Memphis Zoo has banned a woman for life after she breached a barrier and tried to feed dessert to a pack of lions while singing to them.
"I've never seen someone singing to a lion," one witness, speaking for pretty much all of us, told local station WMC-TV. "It was really loud."
The unidentified woman — who reportedly was booted from the zoo last week for throwing objects into the exhibit — crossed a railing and pushed through thorn bushes to reach a piano wire fence, the last barrier to the lion enclosure. Once there, she started "singing a song she had apparently made up," according to Reuters, while trying to press cookies through gaps in the fence.
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The zoo did not comment on what kind of cookies the woman offered the lions, though it would only be fitting had the treats been animal crackers.
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