[DieHard the Hunter]

How could you guess that they guy was taking pictures? I can’t think of a stupider reason to die.

[poindexter]

Another reason for me not to set foot outside of the US.

[Beowulf9]

One of the hazards of bird watching.

[kenth]

The guide — attached to Adventure Gurudongma, a tour and travel agency — who has an experience of about four years, said he immediately directed the group to move away from the place but Robert was so excited that he insisted on waiting and started clicking photographs.

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Leaving the comforts of one’s civilized surroundings doesn’t quite set in for some people. If true, the guy acted like he was in a zoo, and not the wild. It’s always amazed me the people who survive such things, or their kin in worst cases, state that they couldn’t believe anything like that could happen.

[SunkenCiv]

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe 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 Mbembe 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, Mbembe 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.

Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mbemb 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 Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe and lifted its front foot off the ground, 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, Mbembe couldn't help wondering. He 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 Mbembe's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.



Probably wasn't the same elephant.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Ah, the ultimate safari experience!

[martin_fierro]

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