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When is it safe to walk into a lion enclosure? When a zoo digs a giant tunnel beneath their enclosure and builds a people cage on top.

Welcome to the Predator Experience, a $1.4-million plan by South Australia’s Monarto Zoo based on the success of shark cage diving off Port Lincoln.

In a role reversal of a regular zoo exhibit, it would allow up to 30 visitors into the cage for a close up experience with the lions while they roam free outside and are fed.

Zoos SA chief executive Elaine Bensted said it was “going to give visitors a chance to quite literally go into the lions’ den” about 45 minutes east of Adelaide.

Ms Bensted said well-known Port Lincoln tour operator Rodney Fox got the idea for shark cage diving when he saw lions being fed at the zoo.

“If you’ve had the opportunity to get close to a lion they’re just amazing creatures so to get up close and be able to see a lion or 10 around you, I think, will appeal to people of all ages,” she said.

We’ll take you inside a new attraction at Monarto Zoo that puts you in the heart of the lion’s den. Details in 7 News at 4pm and 6pm. #7News pic.twitter.com/GNlB185Rvm

— 7 News Adelaide (@7NewsAdelaide) November 13, 2017

Ms Bensted believed the lions would be “very” interested in the people inside the cage even when they are not being fed.

The zoo also planned to use the people enclosure for close-up experiences with other animals at the zoo, including hyenas.

SA Regional Development Minister Geoff Brock said the new attraction would boost Monarto Zoo visitor numbers above the current annual level of 130,000 annually and inject about $1 million a year into the local economy.

The Federal and South Australian Governments will contribute half of the funding for the tunnel and people cage, which is expected to be operating by the end of this year.

via http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-20/monarto-people-cage-to-allow-visitors-to-get-up-close-with-lions/8370556

Bodycam video allegedly shows an LAPD officer planting drugs inside a black suspect’s wallet.

The footage was obtained by CBS-LA and posted online Thursday — marking the first time that an LAPD bodycam video has ever been made public.

The department has reportedly refused to release any clips pertaining to police investigations since the surveillance program began two years ago.

CBS managed to obtain a total of 12 videos, all worn by individual officers at the scene of a hit-and-run incident in April.

The suspect, Ronald Shields, 52, was arrested at the time and charged with felony hit-and-run and possession of cocaine. Officers claimed in the police report that they found a small bag of coke in the front left pocket of Shields’ shirt.

But bodycam video apparently tells a different story.

According to Shields’ defense attorney, Steve Levine, the footage allegedly shows an officer scooping the coke up off the ground — and not from his client’s pocket, like authorities claimed.

The cop then motions to another officer and appears to place the bag inside Shields’ wallet.

What he doesn’t know, at the time, is that his bodycam — which he has yet to turn on — is currently recording his every move.

The devices are designed to record 30 seconds prior to being turned on, but the officer appears to be unaware of this, seeing how he allegedly turns his camera on just moments after planting the coke inside Shields’ wallet.

“It seems improbable that someone would tape themselves planting drugs,” Levine told CBS. “So it seems more reasonable that when he turned on his cam he felt he was recording at that point.”

The cop — identified only as LAPD Officer Gaxiola — can be heard bragging about the bust and repeatedly telling fellow cops that he found “a bag of narco” in Shields’ wallet. But the story apparently changed when it came time for cops to go in front of a judge.

Another arresting officer, Samuel Lee, later testified in court that he actually found the coke in Shields’ pocket.

“He looked dumbstruck to me,” Levine said Thursday, describing Lee’s reaction to the bodycam video. “He had really no answer.”

Levine says the footage shows the exact moment when Gaxiola planted the drugs.

“There’s a little white square here, in his hand,” Levine said, pointing to it on video.

“It’s right there — a little white square,” he said. I believe the video shows that the drugs were originally in his right hand and he transfers them to his left hand. Now if you watch, he looks down to make sure they’re there. And that’s when the drugs were planted.”

Despite Levine’s argument, the judge in the case said Thursday that he did not see things the same way on the video.

Shields is scheduled to appear back in court in December. Levine says he will continue to challenge the evidence in the case.

The LAPD has had a notoriously bad relationship with the black community, with countless men and women coming forward with claims of police brutality and discrimination over the years.

The department announced Thursday that it would be conducting an internal investigation of the use of bodycams by officers in the field

via http://nypost.com/2017/11/10/bodycam-video-shows-lapd-cop-planting-drugs-on-black-suspect-lawyer/

A Queens man was accused of molesting two kids at a children’s birthday party — and then wound up dead on the pavement hours later.

Edgar Collaguazo, 44, plunged to his death from a fourth-floor apartment inside a building on 95th Street in Jackson Heights early Thursday, police said.

He sublets a room in his unit to the 5-year-old birthday boy’s family, and had offered to let the child and a young girl watch a movie in his room while the adults partied, police and the family said.

Some of the adults began hitting Collaguazo. Then they locked the accused perv in his room and called the cops.

Collaguazo tried to flee out a window — and landed directly on a metal fence, before bouncing onto the ground, grisly security footage from the street level shows.

Police arrived moments later. EMS rushed him to the hospital in critical condition, and he later died, officials said.

The boy’s furious mom said Collaguazo and her son were very close, but she wasn’t aware of him touching the child in the past.

“I never imagined he was able to do something like that,” she told The Post.

via NY Daily News

LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley remain under virtual house arrest at a Hangzhou hotel and may wind up stuck in the Chinese city for a week or more as the legal process in regards to their recent shoplifting arrest plays out.

As it stands the UCLA trio are lucky to be out on bond and receiving the backing of Chinese billionaire e-commerce mogul Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba), who has said “every young person makes mistakes” in regards to the crime. But despite the support, things still won’t go as smoothly as the university, the NCAA and the family of the three young men would like. It has been reported that they will not be allowed to fly back to the U.S. with the team and will thereby miss the Bruins home opener against Central Arkansas on Wednesday, November 15.

What’s more, there is a chance that charges against Ball, Hill and Riley can mount, as recent reports indicate that in addition to the Louis Vuitton theft they were busted for last Tuesday, there is surveillance footage showing them stealing from a couple of other high-end brand stores in the shopping center housing Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Yves Saint Laurent vendors.

There have been conflicting reports on what kind of punishment the college ballers stand to face. The immediate word was that they could be facing between three and 10 years based on “standard practices.” But more recent reports indicate that they will likely have to serve out 20 days of house arrest and be legally banished from the country indefinitely.

via VLADTV

A lot of people been asking where Capo been… heres your answer.

Ig: @Capo_Williams Twitter: @Capo_Williams

Most Instagram stars have at least one glamorous shot on a private jet. And now even ordinary people can fake a lavish lifestyle by hiring a grounded private jet as a backdrop for their Instagram snaps – well, at least in Russia they can.

If you can’t actually afford to fly on a private jet, then a company in Russia will help you fake it instead. Moscow-based company, the Private Jet Studio, has created a unique business by renting out a private jet for Instagram photoshoots, but there’s a catch. Russians can experience what stepping onto a luxury private jet feels like, however they won’t actually be travelling anywhere, with the plane remaining firmly on the ground during the experience.

But that hasn’t stopped people from paying to rent out the Gulfstream 65 aeroplane to capture photos for Instagram bragging. You can have your photos taken inside the aircraft, as you relax on the comfortable white leather seats, with a glass of expensive champagne and a plate of delicious foods in front of you, as you prepare to board the plane, with a gorgeous model waiting for you on the steps, or as you arrive at your fictional destination. Private Jet Studio is also open to suggestions, as long as you’re willing to pay extra.

A two-hour shoot with a professional photographer costs 14,000 roubles (£185) or 11,000 roubles (£145) without. A videographer is also available for £330. Photos posted on the company’s Instagram account show customers pretending to be thousands of feet in the air by looking longingly out of the plane’s windows.

Private Jet Studio’s representative tells TJ Journal some customers don’t mind if the company puts their photos on Instagram. But the others don’t want it to be known that they took photo in a studio.

via Business Insider 

French Montana‘s birthday celebration was interrupted by 2 women going off on each other, which prompted a visit from cops … TMZ has learned.

Sources close to the situation tell TMZ … the rapper took the party — which started in Bev Hills Thursday night — back to his Calabasas crib early Friday morning, and that’s where the fight went down. We’re told around 7 AM the women got into a fight … one of them got booted, and then decided to call the po-po.

Cops and paramedics showed up, the women were evaluated but neither needed medical treatment. However, we’re told booze was clearly involved. In the end … no arrests and both women had to leave the property. Law enforcement say they had no interaction with French.

As we reported … French had a star-studded 33rd birthday bash at a mansion Thursday night.

via TMZ

A man in blackface and wearing a beanie  who was caught on surveillance video trying to rob a Corona bank in August was arrested in his Lake Elsinore home Wednesday, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said Thursday.

Investigators gathered enough evidence to serve a search warrant Wednesday at the Lake Elsinore home of Jerrad Schmittle, 40, according to a sheriff’s press release. Schmittle was subsequently arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery.

On the afternoon of Aug. 18, deputies from the Lake Elsinore sheriff’s station were called to the Wells Fargo Bank in the 11000 block of De Palma Road in Corona after a silent alarm was triggered, according to the statement.

Investigators learned a white man, “with obvious dark make-up to disguise his appearance,” had given a teller a note that demanded money, officials said. The man also told the teller he had a gun.

After waiting for a few seconds, the man, later identified as Schmittle, ran off without getting any money, sheriff’s officials said.

The man’s identity remained unknown until Nov. 1, when new leads led investigators to Schmittle’s home, according to the sheriff’s statement.

Schmittle was booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Center in French Valley.

Authorities ask anyone with information on the case to call the Lake Elsinore sheriff’s station at 951-245-3300.

via http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/11/09/man-in-blackface-seen-in-video-attempting-to-rob-corona-bank-arrested-in-lake-elsinore/