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Registered Member #49
Joined: Tue Dec 06 2005, 01:37AMPosts: 1561 |
You'd think this has to be ridiculous- it can't be true. But sometimes life just does have huge coincidences, and this is one of them. Anyway, I love elephants. I've always been fascinated with them. I'm telling you to counter all this new information about them getting drunk and electrocuted. Take a look at the picture In 1986, Dan Harrison ( see picture above ) was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Dan approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Dan worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Dan stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Dan never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty years later, Dan was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Dan and his son Dan Jr. Were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Dan, lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Dan couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Dan summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Dan's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. Edited Wed Oct 31 2007, 05:21AM |
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| Pracket |
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Registered Member #853
Joined: Wed Aug 29 2007, 07:01AMPosts: 377 |
Omg. So terrible. | ||
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| JapJap |
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Sup son?
Registered Member #720
Joined: Fri May 25 2007, 01:09AMPosts: 1326 |
Wow.. i thought it would be good then..BAM! evil | ||
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| jigg4joe |
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Registered Member #326
Joined: Wed Jul 05 2006, 04:15AMPosts: 635 |
guns don't kill people, elephants kill people. | ||
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The All-Cum Diet
Registered Member #47
Joined: Mon Dec 05 2005, 04:55PMPosts: 1888 |
jigg4joe wrote ... guns don't kill people, elephants kill people. People with moustaches kill people. Edited Wed Oct 31 2007, 11:16AM |
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| NoSkill |
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Sir
Registered Member #457
Joined: Tue Oct 10 2006, 01:13PMPosts: 2628 |
I guess it wasn't the same elephant. Poor Dan Jr. now has to grow up in a world without the beacon of light guidance of a man who climbs into elephant pens for emotional bonding. | ||
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| slick |
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Registered Member #877
Joined: Tue Oct 02 2007, 07:21PMPosts: 663 |
wow fucked up...very sad | ||
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| Infernus |
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Aww, internets!
Registered Member #76
Joined: Sun Dec 18 2005, 06:43AMPosts: 238 |
Denied. | ||
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| nostie |
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Registered Member #185
Joined: Thu Mar 30 2006, 10:42PMPosts: 3167 |
slick wrote ... Are you... kidding?
wow fucked up...very sad |
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Meteor 2016
Registered Member #316
Joined: Mon Jun 26 2006, 09:14PMPosts: 3503 |
Rofl. I hope it's not real (Which I doubt) because I lol'd. | ||
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