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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...
...Sharon Stone: How about this. First of all we called the zoo. We did some research to find out who had a Komodo because Phil had always wanted...
...Phil didn't know where we were going or why we were going there. It was a complete surprise. So we came around the corner and he was like, 'Oh my god this is so fabulous, I've always wanted to see this.' And the zookeeper said, 'would you like to go in the cage? It's very mild mannered. Everybody goes in there. Kids pet him. It's fine.' I thought, well I'm not going in there. I want to go to the bunny cage. But I thought, well this is so neat, he gets...
...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...