JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African mugger fleeing the scene of his crime hides in a tiger enclosure.

On the country's coast, a woman attempts to be a good Samaritan by pushing a young seal into the sea, believing the poor thing is stranded.

Both people paid heavily for their stupidity, underscoring one of nature's truisms: humans do dumb things around wild animals.

"I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you," said James Cameron, a South African professional hunter.

The cartoon image of wildlife may have prompted a 49-year-old South African woman in October to try to help a seal which she believed was stranded, allowing her 1-year-old grandchild to stroke the creature in the process.

The seal responded by biting off the woman's nose

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I feel like the fat kid who goes on a rollercoaster right after finishing a pie eating contest

But I bet those are hard to come by this time of year.

Sunday, Leila, David, Erin, Michael, Allison, and I went hiking up in Tunica Hills. We got there by passing up Port Hudson, which is were we were origianlly going. It doesn't even matter. Tunica Hills was so beautiful!

The day consisted of 4 hours of:
Skipping along huge bolders
Scaling precarious ledges
Letting Michael convince me to jump off that rock across a stream
(I almost didn't do it. That should give you an idea of how high up it was)

I'm sore, but it was all worth it