An Amazing Story, get your tissues ready, the guys too, this is just awesome

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Magawr, Jul 27, 2008.

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    This too may have been posted before, or some of you may already have seen this clip and associated story.

    It's about a lion cub bought in England at Harrods of all places in 1969 and rescued by a couple of American gentleman, who took the lion cub back to their home in the U.S.

    There, raising the lion cub in the local church grounds, the lion before long grew too large to keep so they decided to return the lion to it's native country, Africa, and to try to rehabilitate the lion called Christian back into the wild, with the help of George Adamson, who some of you may have heard of, a very unique and wonderful individual in his own right (and his wife Elisa).

    Christian, was successfully rehabilitated to the wild and went on to become the head of his own pride.

    Some years passed and the original two guys that had rescued him from England, decided to contact George with the hope of finding Christian once again, which they were told would be a near impossibility. However, they took the chance at going back to Kenya to see if they could locate Christian to see him just once more in his native habitat.

    This is the story of that reunion.

    I don't care whether you are 6'6" tall like me or think you have a heart set in stone, get your tissues ready, cos in a few minutes, there's a good chance several of you on watching this particularly moving piece of footage will be crying your eyes out!

    Christian the Lion - the full story:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U&fmt=18

    More information on the story can be found here:

    http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp

    And here:

    http://www.fatheroflions.org/GeorgeAdamson_Photos_p.1.html

    Enjoy! :)
     
    Magawr, Jul 27, 2008 IP
  2. Kim-Webgirl

    Kim-Webgirl Peon

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    Wow what an amazing story, and it did bring a tear to my eyes, thanks so much for sharing that.
     
    Kim-Webgirl, Jul 27, 2008 IP
  3. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #3
    Yeah its nice. Quite old as seen by the clothes/hair style of the two people ;)

    I'd heard it before, and yeah its nice. Bound to bring tears to many peoples eyes :)
     
    mikey1090, Jul 28, 2008 IP
  4. baybossplaya

    baybossplaya Active Member

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    pretty cool
     
    baybossplaya, Jul 28, 2008 IP
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    gauharjk Notable Member

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    I was hoping for a twist in the Climax, something like, the lion attacked the two gentlemen, or maybe they found him, and the lion came to see his old masters with his flock... But there is no Climax here...
     
    gauharjk, Jul 28, 2008 IP
  6. Magawr

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    Why would you want to see such a thing, what part of you would that satisfy?

    Odd.
     
    Magawr, Jul 31, 2008 IP
  7. TheVccMatey

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    No tears yet.. Man, you owe me for those tissues I bought! :(
     
    TheVccMatey, Jul 31, 2008 IP