Josh Newell decided it would be chill to jump over a four-foot fence at Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and pet two cougars. That is dumb because he easily could have died, and, honestly, should have. It is dumber because he decided to film himself doing it and obviously got caught.
“I don’t know, I said, ‘Here, kitty,’ as a joke,” he said of his sophisticated motivation. “You know the cat’s not going to come and here comes the cat… So I figured if the cat’s going to go out of his way to get some loving, I’m going to go ahead and jump the barrier to show him some love.”