Viral Video: Woman jumps into tiger enclosure, narrowly escapes big cat’s fatal attack at New Jersey’s Zoo

New Delhi: The Bridgeton Police Department recently shared an alarming video through their social media account, featuring a lady getting dangerously close to a 500-pound Tiger at New Jersey’s Cohanzik Zoo.

In the caption of the same clip, the department reportedly also shared the deets related to the incident while appealing to the public to help them find the accused & identify her identity.

Woman Jumps Into Tiger’s Enclosure

LOOK: Bridgeton Police want to identify this woman, who climbed over the tiger enclosure’s wooden fence at the Cohanzick Zoo “and began enticing the tiger, almost getting bit by putting her hand through the wire enclosure.” 1/4 pic.twitter.com/DPRFi5xFg1

— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) August 21, 2024

In the clip, a young woman dressed in a tank top paired with white shorts is seen standing next to a massive Bengal Tiger, casually poking the dangerous animal by tapping on its nose.

Moments later, the 7-year-old big cat is seen getting visibly uncomfortable by the girl’s presence in its enclosure as it starts walking back and forth before trying to bite the lady’s hand. However, to her good luck, the girl manages to narrowly escape the wild animal’s fatal attack and exit from the enclosure by climbing over the wooden fence within time.

While the Police department later deleted the video of the incident from its X account shortly after, it was re-shared by several other social media users who made it go viral all over the internet.

Netizens React

Meanwhile, taking to the comment section of the viral video, many social media users shared their reaction to the incident, requesting the authorities to find and prosecute the accused for her thoughtless actions.

“If you know this idiot please ID her to the police bc if she’d been hurt Reshi would most likely have suffered for it. She needs to be found & prosecuted.” stated one man in the comment box. Another said, “Maybe she’s suffering from some untreated mental illness condition.” A third one, blaming the zoo for negligence, remarked, “The zoo will get sued if someone gets hurt. There should be no feasible way a visitor can come in physical contact with a Tiger.”