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Schizophrenia and a lion enclosure

10:40–11:55 · 76s

Wes soberly recounts a 19-year-old’s delusion-driven attempt to prove he was a lion tamer by climbing into a zoo enclosure, and the tragic, instantaneous outcome.

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