Exotic Incident #636
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Rockwell, NC - USA
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Incident Date:
15/12/2003
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Summary:
Samson, a leopard or jaguar at Charlotte Metro Zoo, while being used in a television commercial for the Carolina Panthers, bit the zoo’s owner. In a separate incident, a cobra used for a Carolina Cobras football team commercial got loose during filming.