MarcellC said:A year or two ago a tourist became lion feed as he fell asleep at the Okaukeujo waterhole and the lion quietly clambered up and ...
Have spent many months in Namibia over the years and actually very very few incidents happen - some of the stories are myth, some are real ...but the tales of both circulate for years and years, making it sound it has all been recent. The lion story has been doing the rounds for a good few years now - I don't think authorities tried to keep it quiet, it is just that it is a long time ago now - it is a good few years since I was last at Okaukeujo and the event had happened 'a year or two' before that. The watching place is usually fairly busy (with people) until about midnight or some time after, but the basics of it were this one guy decided to stay longer and fell asleep whilst there alone. The lion climbed up the wall and chomped him. A fence has been added since to make it harder now (a lazy lion probably wouldn't be able to make it now)
Also heard the hyena story too. And one about a Japanese tourist that got of a car to be photographed by a lion, then promptly got eaten. Not sure that one's true though. 3