Posted on 06/14/2022 9:09:46 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
An elephant trampled a woman to death in India, only to return during her funeral to pull her body off a pyre and trample over her corpse again.
The incident was said to have occurred in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Thursday, and comes amid rising animal-human conflict in the country.
Maya Murmu, 70, was targeted by a wild elephant that had strayed from a nearby wildlife sanctuary while collecting water in the district of Mayurbhanj.
Despite being rushed to hospital, the elderly woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital and her body was placed on a funeral pyre the same evening.
On Saturday evening, while her family members were performing her last rites, the same elephant appeared and took Ms Murmu’s body from the pyre and trampled on it, before throwing it away.
Her terrified family members fled the scene and were only able to complete Ms Murmu’s last rites several hours later, once the elephant had left the area.
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Poor Topsy was fed a cigar by a tourist and tossed him against a tree, and was thus sentenced to death.
“ Don’t want this to happen to you, don’t do stuff to elephants.”
My thoughts too…but there are recorded events where the elephant thinks it is the person that abused it but gets it wrong.
No. She did something that was considered bad to that elephant or one of the elephants in that elephants’ group.
Hopefully an allegory for what Republicans will do to Nancy Pelosi and her party in November.
Stay clear of Stacey Abrams! Oh, elephants, not hippos. Umm, never mind.
I miss the Weekly World News. The print version.
There were always stories like this in there.
Hill do you really want to Arkancide that elephant?
Elephants never forget. Some elephants never forgive.
That’s the best Hillary ever looked in that picture.
I knew this thread would contain some of Gary Larson’s work when I read the title. I wonder how many people have sent him links to this article?
Hell hath no fury like an elephant scorned.
Haven’t really thought about doing that. I wonder if he is politically right like Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert?
Does this mean I have to give the T shirt back?
Ironic because of elephant worship.
Ganesha, one of the many Hindu deities, is their elephant god.
If they didn’t worship this god (and elephants as its incarnation) or believe that such animals were the embodiment of their ancestors, they wouldn’t let dangerous, wild animals run loose. It is a popular belief among the Hindus that having an elephant around brings good luck, in spite of them killing about 500 people per year and damaging lots of crops.
There is a simple reason we don’t hear about elephant attacks in the US: elephants are properly kept in captivity at places like the zoo. Of course, we don’t have elephants in the wild here like they do in India.
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