A touching story.

boofredlay

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern 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 and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his hunting 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, 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 teenaged 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, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter couldn't 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 proceeded to slam the idiot against the railing, killing him instantly.

Stinkie

Gee, Boo. Thanks for the acute depression.

remus

i thought this was going to be some namby pamby nonsense!

Ross Macintosh

That's harsh man. Really harsh.

Regards, Ross

PS - As a child of about five or six years old I remember being at a zoo in Germany (Wuppertal Zoo) and a man was telling his friend that all the tigers had their teeth removed. To prove it he jumped the first guardrail and stuck his arm into the tiger cage. A tiger came over and bit his thumb off. The part I remember vividly isn't the blood or anything like that but the really surprised look on the man's face!

Jim

@unknownuser said:

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

-- Mel Brooks

mateo soletic

A really nice touching story .
Knowing Boo I was expecting
some crazy twist at the end.
But no this is a really nice
touching story.