Drunk Man Hurt After Running Into Elephant (hold muh peanuts alert)

Newsday ^ | 5/19/2003 | Associated Press

[SAJ]

HANOI, Vietnam -- A drunk Vietnamese tourist who ran into an elephant he didn't see standing in the street was injured when the animal picked him up and tossed him aside, an official said Monday.

Vu Quang Phuc, 39, was rushed to a hospital after Saturday's attack, said the official of Buon Don tourist site in Daklak province, some 220 miles northeast of Ho Chi Minh City.

[SAJ]

At first, I thought this might have been Fat Teddy, incognito.

[Charles Henrickson]

Vu Quang Phuc. . . .

Nope. Not gonna do it.

[Larry Lucido]

For you elephant ping list.

[Larry Lucido]

animal picked him up and tossed him aside

Vu Quang Phuc. . . .

Nope. Not gonna do it.

So, you don't give a flying --

Oh, never mind.

[xJones]

Phuc didn't see the full-grown elephant -- one of several dozen owned by villagers in the area -- and he ran into it. The animal lifted him up with its trunk and pitched him several meters.

Didn't see a full grown elephant.....give him a Florida driver's license and voting rights, he'll fit right in with all the other Phucs.

[SAJ]

Yep, ROFL, he sure would~! :^)

[The_Victor]

I guess he was accustomed to the pink elephants evaporating as he approached.

[guitfiddlist]

Reminds me of an old Buddhist story. A monk was instructing a new convert (and one could easily envision a Richard Gere-type bozo here) in the perceptions and philosophies of Buddha - how God was in all things great and small. The convert was enthralled with this thought as he left and walked home down a busy road.

Seeing in the distance a work elephant with rider approaching - he decided to demonstrate this idea to himself and sat in the way of the elephant, thinking "The elephant is Buddha, I am Buddha - the elephant will not hurt me", even as the elephant continued, and as the rider screamed at him to move. The elephant reached the convert - picked him up - and threw him ignominously into the roadside bushes.

Dazed and confused, the convert rushed back to the monk and demanded to know why the Buddha in elephant had done that to him. The monk looked at him with derision and said "Well, why didn't you listen to the voice of Buddha screaming at you to get the hell out of the way?"

[capt. norm]

How would you like to be a radio newsman pronouncing that name on the air, live, for the first time?

[DainBramage]

Dink Drang Lot Trunk Hut Hiem

[rudypoot]

Attack? What attack?

[Billthedrill]

Oh, he saw it all, right, he just didn't think it was real. The old "So Much Old Overholt You See Elephants" thing - happens to me, what, four, five times a week...

[gridlock]

I once bicycled into an elephant, and I was stone cold sober at the time. It's hard to see a grey, dusty elephant at dusk, you know. They don't put tail-lights on the legs of these things.

But my favorite not-seeing-an-elephant incident happened a few years ago. My wife and I were motoring down the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, passing Fort Hamilton as we approached the Verrazano Bridge. There was a carnival at the Fort, and staked out to a tree, right on the other side of the fence was an elephant and a small Shetland pony.

As we drive by, my wife remarks something like "look at the cute little pony!". When I pointed out to her that the pony was standing next to an elephant, she was shocked. She had looked right at the elephant, but it just didn't make any sense that an elephant should be standing next to the Belt Parkway, so she just ignored that information. They pony, however, made it through the filter.

Funny how the mind works. BTW, my wife is brilliant.

[Pearls Before Swine]

BTW, my wife is brilliant.

Yeah, but sometimes the most brilliant people can't see an elephant in front of their face, so to speak. Good story.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I will resist the temptation to point out what your opinion of your wife's intelligence says about your own. Just not gonna dew it. :-)

[gridlock]

So you're saying that everything is reletive? Maybe so.

After all, I run into elephants in my spare time...

[holdmuhbeer]

Hey thats supposed to be a hold muh beer alert. I feel slighted.

[dighton]

Elephants and booze bump.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I was just giving you a friendly elbow in the ribs. I imagine you and your wife both are quite intelligent.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bwhaahahahha. This sounds like something out of the Onion.