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Friday, April 29, 2022

APRIL 29, 1968: WHEN YOURS TRULY COULD HAVE BEEN ATTACKED AND DEVOURED BY FOUR ESCAPED LIONS IN SOUTH AUGUSTA NOT TO MENTION BEING SWEPT UP BY A TORNADO IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND SWEPT AWAY TO THE LAND OF OZ! AND YES, YOU CAN’’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!

 This should have been made into a movie!

On this day in 1968, four lions escaped a horrible zoo in South Augusta where we lived.  I was 14 years old and in my first month of working at the Dairy Queen in West Augusta. This video is great as it recalls the incredible circumstances on a rainy night in Georgia which included a Tornado warning in South Augusta with an army of people outside in the heavy rain and lightening, in the dark under a tornado warning in the woods looking for four lions on the loose! You can’t make this stuff up! Enjoy the southern Augusta accent too….

2 comments:

rcg said...

Exciting to live in Georgia! You could have cooked sandwiches for the deputies and maybe attracted the lions for an easy catch.

ByzRus said...

The authorities should have just released some liberals into the woods to bait them out.