Midnight Mike
2008-08-07, 09:14 PM
Aug 7 2008
ACAPULCO, Mexico - A Mexican woman says she fought a 225-kilogram lion with a machete near the resort city of Acapulco and scared him away.
Celsa Aleman says she and her seven-year-old niece were riding a donkey Monday along a road when the lion went after the animal's legs.
The 35-year-old woman said she found the courage to fight the lion because she thought it would attack her niece.
She said she hit the animal with a machete until the beast ran away and Aleman and her niece were unharmed.
The state government says the lion had escaped from a private zoo owned by a former local congressman.
It says the animal killed two dogs and ate a pig before it was sedated and taken back to the zoo.
ACAPULCO, Mexico - A Mexican woman says she fought a 225-kilogram lion with a machete near the resort city of Acapulco and scared him away.
Celsa Aleman says she and her seven-year-old niece were riding a donkey Monday along a road when the lion went after the animal's legs.
The 35-year-old woman said she found the courage to fight the lion because she thought it would attack her niece.
She said she hit the animal with a machete until the beast ran away and Aleman and her niece were unharmed.
The state government says the lion had escaped from a private zoo owned by a former local congressman.
It says the animal killed two dogs and ate a pig before it was sedated and taken back to the zoo.