It Must Have Seemed A Good Idea At The Time,

stick a wicker basket to a tortoise shell,

and let the public pay for its food, throwing coins at specific objects, from temple bells and statues to airplane engines before a flight, is believed to bring good luck, but staff at a popular zoo in Guanxi, China, have been accused of animal cruelty and trying to swindle visitors,

the African spurred tortoise at Nanning Zoo, is in the provincial capital of Guangxi, photos of the animal crawling around in its enclosure with the basket sticking up went viral on Chinese social media and attracted criticism both from animal lovers and those who saw the gimmick as a way to swindle zoo visitors, clip from Tomonews, as I mentioned, it must have seemed a good idea at the time.