A Lion in the Toilet!

If we thought the hyena rummaging in the dustbin all night wasn't enough. Or the loud australian tourists making a scene outside our tent at 5.30am. We were pretty fed up anyway when we discovered from fellow campers and one nervous looking Masaai that there was a female lion stuck in the mens toilet cubicle prohibiting anyone from using it! At first we thought it was a joke or tourists being nuerotic, but the Masaai confirmed the story and suddenly we were a bit nervous. We realised that if a lion had been stuck in the toilet all night a very angry animal had the potential of bursting out into the camp. And as if the lion in the toilet wasn't enough, the whole campsite was shocked into silence when an italian/spanish? tourist walked out the mens bathroom after taking a twenty minute shower. When dad asked him if he was aware of the huge predator in the cubicle he simply laughed and tried to explain in broken english that he did not think it was a lion but the backwash of the toilet that was making the banging and roaring sounds. No matter how much we tried to reason with this man he refused to believe us! We chose to believe the Masaai who had seen her throught the window. he simply had no concept of the danger he was in. It made the whole experience almost comical, were it not for the roaring and grunting coming from the bathroom area. The game rangers arrived and she was let out safely with little injury a couple of hours later.