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...weeks ago the foot of San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein was severely damaged in an attack by a 10-foot Komodo dragon at the Los Angeles zoo. Sharon Stone had arranged the visit to the zoo as a present for her husband. She talks to TIME's Jess Cagle about the accident...
...TIME: First of all, why was he going into a Komodo dragon's cage...
...went in and he started petting the dragon. The thing has a long, skinny forked tongue with yellow stripes. It started darting out at Phil's shoes. The zookeeper said, 'I'm sure he think it's the white rats that we feed him. You'd probably be better off without your shoes.' I thought they've got it all under control. Because we had no real experience with these animals, we didn't know. They told us it was mild mannered and kids pet it. If they'd said this tiger was mild mannered and kids petted...
...Phil gets in the cage and he's petting the dragon and I took a picture. The zookeeper, who was also in the cage, said, 'Come around to the side a little bit so she can get a better picture,' and as he started to move, this thing just lunged at him, grabbed his foot...
...heard this crunching sound. Instead of doing what I would've done if a dog bit me or something, shake my leg to get it off, Phil was very clever. His heel was still out of the thing's mouth. He stepped his heel down to pin the dragon. The deal is, they pull you off your feet and apparently then...