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...scenes tour of the L.A. Zoo. As part of the tour, Bronstein was induced to enter the cage of a KOMODO DRAGON and remove his white sneakers, which a keeper thought the giant lizard might mistake for white rats. The dragon promptly chomped down on Bronstein's big white toe, sending him to the hospital for major surgery. More surprising than the gullibility of a hardened newsman is the lack of sympathy Bronstein received. A Bay Area political consultant contemplated a trust fund for the dragon, which he speculated had suffered food poisoning, while San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown...
...maul him, to try to eat his foot. It took a piece of the top of his foot off completely, like probably a 4-inch long by an inch and a half, maybe two inches wide, all the flesh. It severed the main tendon to his big toe, the main tendon to the next toe, crushed the casing to the joints that join the big toe to the foot. So its bacteria was then inside the bone. This thing carries 22 deadly bacteria in its mouth. His toe was completely hanging off, and we didn't know if he would...
...looking at his EKG. They had a guy working on sedating him. I cut his trousers off. He still had his sock as his tourniquet. He went right into surgery. They did the surgery, they didn't have to do the skin graft, they reconstructed the joint around his toe, they reattached the tendon. When we were at the hospital, the head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight for the first three days and sat down with me and said, 'Two weeks ago I had five kids who petted a Komodo dragon and got severe salmonella poisoning...
...first thing the zoo did was a fundraiser with the dragon on display, making jokes. And you know, Phil is home after five days in the hospital, but he's in a hospital bed at home with IVs of antibiotics. This not like, he got his little toe nipped and he's skipping around and everything's fine. The zoo has not only not done [sensationalized press and no quarantining], they have actively done the opposite and I'm really surprised. What's shocking to me is that they're continuing these visits with animals that are known...
...tiger and go, oh he's just mild mannered. You would still have the tiger wrangler. Something. Here's a pair of knee high boots with a steel thing. Not like swoop around here so we can get a better photo and pretending that it nipped him on the toe. If they don't spend some of all of this money they have quadrupled for some kind educational program so they can educate the zookeepers about how to handle situations, I just can't even imagine what to say next. I'm flabbergasted...