Daily Mail Police say a California woman was cited after climbing into a giraffe exhibit at a Wisconsin zoo and getting kicked in the face by one of the animals. A police report from the Madison Police Department says 24-year-old Amanda Hall, of San Luis Obispo, California, ‘climbed over one fence and was partially through a second fence that surrounds the giraffe exhibit’ at the Henry Vilas Zoo. The incident took place at about 5:30pm Saturday, police said.A 2-year-old giraffe named Wally gave Hall a lick, then before turning and kicking her in the face, police said. ‘Zoo staff advised that giraffes are capable of killing lions, and that Hall was lucky not to have been more seriously injured,’ the report said. Police said they ticketed Hall for ‘Harassment of Zoo Animals’ and fined her for $686. The police report says Hall revealed ‘she climbed into the exhibit area because she loves giraffes.’ Dane County said in a release last year that 12-foot-tall Wally is a reticulated giraffe and earlier lived at Illinois’ Niabi Zoo. Wally lives alongside another reticulated giraffe, named Eddie.

I guess Amanda Hall really loves giraffes, and when I first saw this article, I did not expect her to be a pretty 24-year-old. People that are nutty enough to hop the fence at a zoo are usually not good looking, but Amanda Hall is lucky, because a giraffe hoof to the face can make you unpretty really quick. This story reminds me of the idiot who jumped into the tiger pit at the Bronx Zoo “to be one with the tigers” a few years back, these animals that you love so much are not cute or cuddly in real life, they will defend themselves and can kill you so stay out of their enclosures.