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Elephant kills woman - then tramples her corpse at her funeral
The Telegraph ^ | 13 June 2022 | Joe Wallen

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: elephant; elephantneverforgets; india; olfactory; outofcontrolelephant; wildelephant
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To: 21twelve

Is there any chance that we can hire and send such a noble beast to Chappequau, New York? And will they work from a picture and and address?


61 posted on 06/15/2022 2:11:25 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: anthropocene_x

Baaaaad juju somewhere


62 posted on 06/15/2022 2:23:21 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: SmokingJoe

It was probably in the paper.


63 posted on 06/15/2022 2:36:53 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: FrdmLvr

Indian elephants read newspapers too?


64 posted on 06/15/2022 2:50:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: FrdmLvr; fidelis

You two are probably correct. :)


65 posted on 06/15/2022 2:51:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Secret Agent Man
This is India. They largely let animals roam.

Also, India being India, they brutalize the animals, doing things like randomly stabbing them or dousing them with petrol and setting them on fire.

66 posted on 06/15/2022 2:53:57 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: anthropocene_x

I’m not buying it.


67 posted on 06/15/2022 3:19:39 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: anthropocene_x

India must “do something “ now! Enact stricter Elephant control laws...that will do it!


68 posted on 06/15/2022 3:35:37 AM PDT by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: Nekman; angry elephant

[Enact stricter Elephant control laws...that will do it!]

How about putting up signs “No Elephant Zone”.

Seems like that would be the correct solution.

I think somebody has the right moniker for this thread!


69 posted on 06/15/2022 4:04:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: anthropocene_x

That elephant represents the way patriots will feel when Pelosi and hillary take their dirt naps.


70 posted on 06/15/2022 4:45:40 AM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
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To: Jamestown1630; anthropocene_x

“(if the story is true at all.)”

I agree - doesn’t pass the smell test.


71 posted on 06/15/2022 5:02:56 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Jamestown1630

Maybe she threatened a baby elephant


72 posted on 06/15/2022 5:43:04 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: anthropocene_x

Either the elephant or the woman was wearing an N95 in the first attack.


73 posted on 06/15/2022 5:51:08 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: 21twelve

An elephant never forgets. Apparently they never forgive either.
= = =

She was on the wrong part of the Hot-Crazy chart.


74 posted on 06/15/2022 8:24:37 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Damn bet the back of her car cover shirt has a WIDE LOAD sign on it.


75 posted on 06/15/2022 8:38:36 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Vaduz

hope her car service is a dually.


76 posted on 06/15/2022 8:41:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Indeed


77 posted on 06/15/2022 8:55:53 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: anthropocene_x

She must’a really dissed that elephant!


78 posted on 06/15/2022 9:26:30 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: anthropocene_x

That must have been one pissed off elephant.


79 posted on 06/15/2022 9:51:39 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Tommy Revolts

And remember...ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET!


80 posted on 06/15/2022 10:10:36 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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