Posted on 02/02/2016 4:34:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
An elephant dubbed "Rambo" may have been startled or overwhelmed by the heat when it gored a Scottish tourist to death, Thai authorities said.
The pachyderm launched its attack Monday on the resort island of Ko Samui, throwing Gareth Crowe, 36, and his daughter, Eilidh Hughes, to the ground. Rambo then gored Crowe with his tusk and stomped on him.
The animal - who's also known as Golf - became enraged after its trainer, or mahout, climbed off to take a picture of the tourists.
Crowe had a prosthetic leg and was unable to run away from the elephant, officials say.
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The elephant has been chained to a tree since Monday so officials can monitor its behavior, the Bangkok Post reports. Officials say Rambo will take a 15-day break from work and then be moved to another branch of the trekking company.
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Irrelephant.
My friend just went to Thailand for a 3 week vacation on Monday. She plans on going to the elephant sanctuary. What timing she has. I wonder if they will let anyone in for awhile.
Excellent movie, The Ghost And The Darkness, staring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.
I rode one of those elephants during one of my trips to Thailand. I always enjoyed my time there. Never could convince the wife to retire there.
Prayers for his loved ones and for those who were injured.
I have always understood that male elephants can become unpredictable.
“I have always understood that male elephants can become unpredictable.”
Better watch out Cruz. One of them is coming after you right now....I’m sure you know who I mean, lol.
you cheap little bastid
. . “Folks just have to remember that wild animals are
just that.”
You are so right! Many years ago, here in our state, in the
heat of summer, a circus came to a little town. The
elephants were worked very hard putting up and then
breaking down the circus tents; then they were paraded
down the main street of the towns. The locals had a
grocery on the street and had cut watermelons set out on
tables on the sidewalk. One of the elephants spotted the
cut melons and, likely thirsty and starved for something
cool, sweet and delicious; it broke out of the parade line
and just went wild to try to get to the watermelons.
Someone was trampled. The animal was tried for murder and
a special scaffolding was erected and it was hanged. -
That is one of the most pitiful bits of history. I hope
that the Lord has seen to it that elephant has enough
good food and watermelons in the afterlife AND no hot,
blazing sun or hard labor, just happiness and love.
You’re misinformed. Earlier edirions mistakenly reported that Rambo had borrowed another elephant’s tusk. This was a correction.
A classic line!
What got rambo upset?........ eliphino
koh Samui, one of my favorite places on earth. However, watch for elephants.
Everybody hates tourists.
There are many “elephant sanctuaries” in Thailand, generally around Chiang Mai in the north.
Ko Samui is in the south, hundreds of miles away. Ko Samui is strictly a beach hotel area. European tourists book direct flights there to burn on the beach for a week, then go home. Any other aspect of Thai culture you could find there is pretty much “for the tourists”, elephants included.
There are elephant attractions all over Thailand, and an elephant round-up in Surin Province in the Northeast each year. This kind of thing is not frequent, but it happeans from time to time. This one incident will have no effect whatsoever except to the elephant involved and whatever venue hired it, which will all blow over in three weeks, by which time there will have been a complete turn-over in the tourist clientele.
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