Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open a cage so he could 'smash' a silverback gorilla in the face
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Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open a cage so he could "smash" a silverback gorilla in the face.
Tyson said he was being given a private tour of a zoo more than 30 years ago, saw a gorilla being a bully, and offered the tour guide a considerable sum of money so he could go inside the cage and punch him.
"I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and [ex-wife] Robin [Givens]," Tyson said, according to Boxing Scene."I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let [me] smash that silverback's snot box! He declined."
It is not the only wild Tyson story involving an exotic animal.He recently said one of his pet tigers in the 1990s attacked a woman who had trepassed on his property.
The tiger "f----- up" the trespasser so badly he paid her approximately $250,000. "I didn't know what they could do to a person's flesh," he said recently in an Instagram Live chat. "I had no idea."Tyson's attitudes towards animals have changed drastically since then. Where there was once gorillas and tigers, there is now a pet poodle which he allows to lick him on the mouth.
He even films himself playfully sparring the little dog, which he said is called Mars.
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