It's a fascinating topic...roughly 48 hours after suggesting some picture taken on a wooded trail between Brandenburg and Berlin....was of a female lion....the idea has been squashed completely, with the public told it was merely a wild boar.
There's hundreds of thousands of Euro having been spent on the search with overtime paid to the police. The news and social media were heated-up....asking the question....where does this lion come from?
In some weird way, I'd suggest that a fair number of Germans (not a majority) wanted the lion story to be true.
Hoax potential? This has been on my mind, and I'd actually give it a 75-percent chance of being designed as a hoax, and that a real lion was used in some way for the path-photo.
A script waiting to be turned into a German comedy? Well....I could see some guy sitting there now and writing this into a movie script. Some private zoo lion who is friendly with people....walks away. Some German kid befriending her. A dozen fake big-game hunters brought in, and some gov't official proclaiming the lion 'protected' by 'rights'. Some German Elmer Fudd-like hunter on the trail of the lion. It literally begs for a movie.
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