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
That will teach that elephant handler a lesson he’ll never forget.
Another death due to Global Warming!
Or is it COOF?
I don’t Know anymore…
I feel bad for both the elephant and the dude.
I guess you could say that I’m torn.
Lengthwise or width-wise?
An elephant destroys its abuser?
Hmmmmmmm.
Global Warming or Coof? I don’t know anymore…
Eek. The Thai royal family’s tree doesn’t look like it has many branches.
@MJA
It’s a telephone pole.
MJA
AUGUST 29, 2022 AT 9:06 PM
“I feel bad for both the elephant and the dude.
I guess you could say that I’m torn.”
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SNS
AUGUST 29, 2022 AT 9:43 PM
MJA
AUGUST 29, 2022 AT 9:06 PM
“I feel bad for both the elephant and the dude.
I guess you could say that I’m torn.”
…whoops, wrong one. Try this…
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Can’t say I didn’t think about doing that to one of my supervisors at ExxonMobil. Just sayin’!
Strong Tyke, wasn’t he?
Free advice, don’t mess with animals that can rip you asunder.
Whut doe an elephant say when he rips up his handler?
“BENZINGA!”
I guess the mahout got the point.
Take this job and shove it!
Another global warming death. It’s all Trump’s fault.
Sarc/
Confucius say, he who upset elephant get split personality
Brad, lengthwise is a ‘Rip’.
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.