The scene Kruger National Park, in South Africa. An Impala was video taped skillfully escaping two cheetahs – by taking a leap of faith into a carload of tourists on safari.

The terrified animal was seconds away from becoming the cheetahs dinner when it saw the window, and jumped for the opportunity. This dramatic video was shot using an iPhone by 20 year old  Samantha Pittendrigh, who was on holiday with her family.

Alright, my first question when I heard about this story was who goes on safari and leaves their window open. It is winter in South Africa in June/July so one can not say that it what too hot, and there was no air conditioning in the car.

Then they say that the impala was lucky and managed to find its way through the window, what if that is exactly what it was planning to do? It saw an opening and it went straight for it the same way any of us would do.

So you pay for your safari, then you go on safari but whilst on safari the strangest thing happens to you. A giraffe starts chasing your open top jeep. I don’t know about you but the last animal I would have been scared off before going on safari would have been a giraffe. A lion definitely, a leopard, a buffalo, a rhino maybe even a hippo… but a giraffe?? Never!!

Upon further investigation, it turns out that giraffes can actually be very dangerous especially when they are hormonal like the one in the video below. It chased this jeep for over 5 km, I have no idea what the plan was since it is a herbivore. But hey with the way the climate is changing these days you never know what this giraffe could be able to do to you. So yes, the best thing to do would be to ruuuuuun for dear life or as in this video drive until you start to run out of road. This happened in South Africa btw.

At which point you can start banging on the side or the jeep and making ridiculous amounts of noise hoping that this will scare away your stalker. As Anthony the weatherman at a local news station said in response to this video ‘Hey you get what you pay for!’. I think he is dead on, who wants to hear a story about being chased up a tree by a lion or cheetah. Been there done that got the t-shirt. Try something new and funky like a 15 foot tall super long stride taking hormonal giraffe. Now THAT is a safari story!