'King, I love you': at the Bronx Zoo, a woman snuck into an aviary with lions with roses and money

According to witnesses, a visitor to the New York Zoo in the Bronx climbed over the fence into the aviary with lions and exclaimed: "King, I love you, I came back for you." More details about a completely non-romantic story were told by the publication NBC News.

This is the second time in two years that someone has made their way to an animal.

“At about 16:00 pm, employees were notified that a woman had stepped over the barrier near the lions,” the zoo said in a statement. "The incident lasted only a couple of minutes, and the woman was gone by the time the staff arrived at the scene."

Representatives of the zoo said they plan to bring charges of a crime if the identity of the violator of law and order is established.

A visitor, dressed in a red slip dress and a leopard-print scarf, was captured by security cameras. The footage shows her waving roses in front of the bewildered lion. Then she began tossing $ 100 bills in the air.

“I missed you so much,” is heard in the frame. The witness said that the woman also said to the lion: "King, I love you, I have come back for you."

According to zoo staff, lions are separated from visitors by a moat. Even if one of them overcomes the barrier, he will hardly be in the same place with the lions.

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The incident occurred a little over two years after a woman, later identified as Mya Autry, jumped over a barrier in a lion enclosure and danced for the animal.

Later she said, "Now I am a lion."

Autry called this a “spiritual experience” and added, “I was not afraid of the lion because the lion loves me. I let him know that I love him too. "

She was later arrested on two charges of infiltration: she entered the enclosure with giraffes on the same day she visited the lions.

It is unclear if Autry was involved in this incident.