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Posted on 06/01/2015 10:10:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Louisiana State 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 Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. Surely, this injury would have eventually become infected, killing the elephant. So, as carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his 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. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly -- once, twice, three times -- picked its foot up, and put it down, then turned and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teen-aged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly -- once, twice, three times -- all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter 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 Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same damned elephant.
This is for everyone who sends me those heart-warming B.S. stories.
Oh, man, that was funny...!
Knows YOU enough to capisce that when the story goes “...20 years later...”
Somebody’s gettin screwed, and not in the fun way...
That was soooooo Laz funny. : )
It probably WAS the same elephant.
Ah, what a beautiful, heartwarming... WAIT! It killed him???
And the "Darwin Award" winner is!!!!!!!!
DON’T LET THE ELEPHANT LAND!
DON’T LET THE ELEPHANT LAND!!!
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HA, HA. YOU WILL LIVE IN FR HISTORY NOW.
HA, HA. YOU WILL LIVE IN FR HISTORY NOW.
HA, HA. YOU WILL LIVE IN FR HISTORY NOW.
A hipster couple were recently vacationing in Africa. They came across a dead elephant with a pygmy standing upon it.
“What happened to this elephant?”
“I killed him with my club.”
That’s amazing! How big is your club?”
“Oh, we have about twenty members.”
;)
You really had me going there; I thought the elephant was going to lift his foot and stomp him!
Assume the elephant was a metaphor for main stream Republicans and Peter represented conservatives.
I never thought of it that way, but it totally would fit!!!!
Sorry Laz.
It’s just anybody with a brain would never go near an animal if their offspring were close by. Common sense. But, I know that’s sorely lacking these days.
Hope you are happy.
LOL .. Laz, I’m sorry .. but you’ll get over it.
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