【海外の反応】シャロン・ストーンが夫のために用意したコモドドラゴンとの密会、まさかの惨劇に発展して海外騒然

I mean he got the full komodo dragon experience

I can’t believe the handler sucked this bad. Terrible idea to have the man take his freaking shoes off and get close.

[Sharon Stone in an interview about the incident:](https://time.com/archive/6907979/transcript-sharon-stone-vs-the-komodo-dragon/)

>So he 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 it, you’d go, ‘Yeah, but it’s a tiger.’ But you see this giant lizard and you don’t think it’s gonna try to rip you from limb to limb. The zookeeper was kind of one of those Mr. Rogers type guys, so we thought, no big deal.
So 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…
**This was after he’d taken off his shoes and socks?**
Oh, shit yeah! So there was that hideous moment where the three of us…It’s such a break in reality, it’s so inconceivable that it’s happening, but there’s that moment of stillness where you just stare in disbelief. Then Phil screamed and we 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 try to eat you.
**How seriously was Phil’s foot hurt?**
It was very serious. When he pinned it down with his heel, so that it couldn’t continue to maul him, it started to throw its body, slam its body back and forth, to try to 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 keep his toe, his foot, if he would ever be able to walk again or what was gonna happen. There were tons of children with their nose pressed against the glass while this was happening.
**While the attack was happening?**
Oh, absolutely.
**.**..
**How did he finally extricate himself from the dragon?**
I think he has an unbelievable calm under pressure. And I’m sure this is something he learned during his years in the war zone. You don’t become a Pulitzer finalist twice because you’re running around being freaked out, you know? This is a guy who can keep his cool when things are happening. He yelled, like screamed out, then he reached down and opened the jaws off his foot and threw this thing. Then he started to try to get back out the way he got in, which was the feeding door, which was about 3 and a half feet high by probably 20 inches wide, so he’s coming out foot first and I’m trying to pull him out.
Phil had scratches on his thigh from it clawing him on the way out. I pulled him out and laid him down on the floor right in front of the door. I turned his sock inside out and made a tourniquet and put his foot on my shoulder because he was bleeding so severely. I’m very busy doing what I’m doing and not realizing that we are less than two feet from the cage door where the zookeeper’s trying to get out and the animal’s still trying to attack Phil. It’s shoving its claws and its paws through the iron grill on the cage door. The zookeeper gets out and locks it and this dragon continues to slam its body against the door to try to get out and continue to attack him. Its underbelly is slamming against this metal grill about two feet from Phil’s head.
…
**How’s Phil now?**
He’s gonna wear a cast for four weeks, then he has three months of rehabilitation to learn to walk again and the infectious disease people are all over him.

>“It’s very mild mannered. Everybody goes in there. Kids pet him. It’s fine.”

Yes child, get right up in there with the giant reptile that eats prey about your size.

When I was ten, I read that Komodo dragons will stand up, sight prey, and then run it down at high speed, and also they climb trees. The main diet of adult komodo dragon is young komodo dragons. So you would never have caught me anywhere near a loose dragon.

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.’

Absolutely not way they'd ever let a kid close to one of those

The only way I'd be anywhere near a Komodo dragon is if it was completely locked down like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park during transportation.

FYI – Phil Bronstein seems to have made a good recovery after that, although he needed the tendons to be reattached surgically, and a have a cocktail of potent antibiotics for the bacteria.