A Texas household acquired greater than they bargained for when their drive-thru safari expertise took a flip.
Jason Toten, his fiancé Sierra Robert, and their kids took a visit to the Fossil Rim Wildlife Heart in Glen Rose to take their wildlife tour on Saturday, Toten instructed McClatchy Information.
‘We had been having somewhat household day, simply getting out of the home,’ he mentioned.
Just like a petting zoo, Fossil Rim permits guests to feed some animals with meals they supply.
The couple and their daughter, Paisley, had been admiring the animals passing and getting a close-up take a look at the hungry wildlife when a giraffe walks as much as the truck, taking a specific liking to the toddler.
Inside an immediate, the little woman is lifted into the air.
Jason Toten, his fiancé Sierra Robert (pictured), and their kids took a visit to the Fossil Rim Wildlife Heart in Glen Rose to take their wildlife tour on Saturday, Toten instructed McClatchy Information
A Texas household acquired greater than they bargained for when their drive-thru safari expertise took a flip
The automobile behind the truck with Toten and his household additionally took a video, the place you possibly can see the giraffe by chance seize the toddler’s shirt, lifting her into the air.
Robert reacted instantly, grabbing Paisley as she was lifted into the air by the giraffe.
‘I regarded out the again window and I noticed the giraffe … after which up she went,’ Toten mentioned. ‘My coronary heart stopped, it scared the hell out of me.’
However the worry subsided shortly as all it took for the giraffe to let go of the toddler’s shirt was a stern ‘hey’ from Robert.
And Paisley was the least involved of everybody.
‘I assume it startled the giraffe,’ Toten mentioned. ‘She wasn’t even scared,’ he added. ‘As quickly as her mother caught her, she went ‘oh.’
Toten mentioned he understands the scenario was a whole accident and that the giraffe meant to seize the meals bag out of Paisley’s arms, which she refused to let go of.
‘It ended up getting her shirt and lifting her out of the truck,’ he mentioned.
Toten mentioned he understands the scenario was a whole accident and that the giraffe meant to seize the meals bag out of Paisley’s arms, which she refused to let go of
After the incident, the household took Paisley to the reward store, the place all she wished was a luxurious of her new favourite animal.
“We go in there and all she wished was a giraffe toy and a giraffe T-shirt,” Toten mentioned. “We ended up getting her each, we figured she deserved it.”
Toten mentioned their household is not deterred from coming again to Fossil Rim and that they’re going to nonetheless journey behind the truck ‘as a result of that is an expertise in itself.’
