The King of Jungle briefly became the Emperor of Rome this weekend after a lion escaped from an Italian circus and prowled around in public.
The jailbreak happened Saturday evening in the seaside town of Ladispoli — where a traveling circus was passing through, and the big cat somehow got out of its cage and began roaming the streets, with a lot of eyewitnesses and cameras rolling.
Several bystanders captured video of the lion walking around residential neighborhoods … casually cruising along sidewalks and in between parked cars, minding its own business.
Eventually, the circus owners and local vets were able to track it down and sedate it — bringing it back to where it belonged — and nobody was harmed while it was out and about.
