Denver police reported that a woman who went into a sealed off area designated for elephants was so intoxicated, she had to be to be taken to a nearby medical facility on Monday.
The Denver Police and Fire Departments told USA Today that they first received reports at around 9 p.m. that a patron might have been shocked.
But after a request for confirmation on ABC 7's Twitter, police reported that the woman appeared to have entered the enclosure and sat on a net of electrical wiring.
"Denver Zoo security was alerted that a disoriented woman was found inside an animal yard in the zoo's Toyota Elephant Passage exhibit," officials from the Zoo wrote in a statement released Monday night. "No animals were in the yard at the time."
The woman's identity has not yet been released, USA Today reported.
@DenverPolice Can you clarify if she was shocked by the wires? Also, were they wires of a fence? Fire said they thought she was shocked
— 7NEWS Denver Channel (@DenverChannel) December 24, 2013
@DenverChannel Officers on scene provided the updated information that the female was not shocked but extremely intoxicated. — Denver Police Dept (@DenverPolice) December 24, 2013
