Elephant Rips Handler In Half In Thailand After Being Forced To Carry Wood Logs In Extreme Heat – IOTW Report

Elephant Rips Handler In Half In Thailand After Being Forced To Carry Wood Logs In Extreme Heat

Benzinga:
An elephant ripped its handler in half using its tusks in southern Thailand after being made to carry rubberwood in the scorching heat, according to a report.

A 32-year-old elephant mahout was found in a pool of blood at a rubber plantation in Thailand’s Phang Nga province last week after an annoyed elephant stabbed the man with its tusks multiple times, news outlet the Thaiger reported.

The initial investigation revealed that Supachai Wongfaed brought the 20-year-old male elephant named Pom Pam to haul wood at the plantation that morning. The police believe that the hot weather may have made the animal “go crazy” and attack the handler.

The livestock officers sedated the elephant with a dart from over 1,600 feet away to recover Wongfaed’s body.

In 1989, Thailand imposed a ban on the practice of using Asian elephants to carry logs; despite that, it still occurs in some parts of the country, according to the report. more

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  1. Lèse-majesté in Thailand is a crime according to Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code. It is illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the monarch of Thailand (king, queen, heir-apparent, heir-presumptive, or regent). Modern Thai lèse-majesté law has been on the statute books since 1908. Thailand is the only constitutional monarchy to have strengthened its lèse-majesté law since World War II. With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each count, it has been described as the “world’s harshest lèse majesté law” and “possibly the strictest criminal-defamation law anywhere”; its enforcement “has been in the interest of the palace”.
    So, I guess some of you better not vacation over there, If you do they’ll send you to the “Bangkok Hilton” 3rd floor or higher, and for the first 6 months your ankles will have steel bars hammered around them connected with a chain.

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