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S. Korea: Woman Says Zoo Elephant Threw Stone at Her
Donga Ilb ^ | 09/16/09

Posted on 09/16/2009 8:58:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Woman Says Zoo Elephant Threw Stone at Her

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 05:42

Police yesterday said they are probing whether an elephant at the zoo inside Children’s Grand Park in Seoul threw a stone at a woman.

The Gwangjin Ward Police Station said, “A woman surnamed Kim reported to police that she was hit by a stone thrown by an elephant.”

Kim was taking a walk in the quiet zoo around 9:30 a.m. Monday. She told The Dong-A Ilbo, “The elephant (Taesani) was picking up a stone with its trunk. I was really impressed that it really used its trunk to hold something. And I then moved to the lions’ den.”

When she went to see lions, she said she was hit by a stone the size of a bowl. When she tried to find who threw it, she said she saw nobody nearby.

“I was hit on the left side of my head. I could see only the enclosure of the elephant on the left side. I shouted since it hurt so much, the elephant rolled up its trunk, and stared at me.”

After Kim reported the incident, police began an investigation Monday. They checked security camera footage taken nearby the enclosure of the elephant, but the place where Kim said she was hit by the stone was out of the range of cameras.

A police source said, “Though Ms. Kim believes the elephant threw a stone at her, it’s hard to conclude that the elephant attacked her since there are neither witnesses nor evidence. We’ll investigate whether the park is responsible.”

The zoo, however, ruled out the possibility that the elephant threw the stone. Given that the fences are located just three meters away from the enclosure, however, it is possible that the elephant did it.

Born in 1974, Taesani has been a popular attraction since 1975 when it was moved to the zoo.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: elephant; skorea; stoning; zoo
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1 posted on 09/16/2009 8:58:17 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A palestinian elephant?


2 posted on 09/16/2009 9:00:34 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Maybe the woman hurt the animal’s feelings? Hah!

Has the elephant “lawyered up” yet?


3 posted on 09/16/2009 9:00:46 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Amd somewhere in America, law students are salivating at the prospect of building a lucrative career around suing the pads, paws and claws off of members of the Animal Kingdom.


4 posted on 09/16/2009 9:01:29 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Does anyone offer Anger Management Classes for pachyderms?


5 posted on 09/16/2009 9:02:25 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: RexBeach

True.

I hear incidents of anti-elephant hate speech are WAY up world-wide this year. Something to do with some election in the U.S. last fall.


6 posted on 09/16/2009 9:03:57 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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Anybody who tried had been trampled to death.:-)
7 posted on 09/16/2009 9:04:49 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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bttt


8 posted on 09/16/2009 9:05:37 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: RexBeach
Has the elephant “lawyered up” yet?

If Cass Sunstein gets his way, that could happen.

9 posted on 09/16/2009 9:08:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Beware elephants bearing stones.


10 posted on 09/16/2009 9:09:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I guess I would stay away from the elephant. Sounds good to me.


11 posted on 09/16/2009 9:09:58 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Fresh Wind
If Cass Sunstein gets his way,

The elephant had better be a liberal. LOL.

12 posted on 09/16/2009 9:12:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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The zoo, however, ruled out the possibility that the elephant threw the stone.

Why would they do that? I saw an elephant at the zoo here in Oklahoma spray mud from it's trunk onto a mom and her kid. It looked like it had a smirk on it's face after it did it.

13 posted on 09/16/2009 9:15:23 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
We used to cut school in high school and go drinking beer in Central Park. One day we wandered into the monkey house, and my friend Kenny started taunting them through the bars. One monkey came close and spit a big gobber onto him.

That was way more fun than stupid school!

14 posted on 09/16/2009 9:17:43 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
This doesn't surprise me at all. I have studied elephants in the wild and can attest to their intelligence and sensitivity; they are very expressive animals. That said, I have also seen elephants in captivity do things to people that are downright shitty seemingly to amuse themselves. Elephants have a somewhat crude, juvenile sense of humor.


15 posted on 09/16/2009 9:20:23 AM PDT by stormer
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is why elephants shouldn’t live in glass houses.


16 posted on 09/16/2009 9:23:51 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: stormer

I went to a carnival probably 40 years ago and watched as an elephant blew its trunk at a young man who was harassing it. Poor kid was close enough to get a load of elephant mucous on himself.


17 posted on 09/16/2009 9:25:49 AM PDT by Marty
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This reminds me of a skit from the Carol Burnett Show. A rouge elephant went on a crime spree and they hung him.


18 posted on 09/16/2009 9:32:14 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: stormer
Elephants have a somewhat crude, juvenile sense of humor.

Wait, I thought manatees wrote "Family Guy"...
19 posted on 09/16/2009 9:35:24 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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'''>A rouge elephant went on a crime spree and they hung him...."

It really happened to this guy:


20 posted on 09/16/2009 9:37:38 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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