Topic: Twisted elephant story....

[nickjtc]

I don't usually like these heartwarming stories, but this one is truly interesting...

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe 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 Mbembe 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, Mbembe 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. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mbembe 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 Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing.

The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, 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, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant.

Mbembe 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 Mbembe' s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

[eldar]

Nick, you a strange, strange guy!

[CrisPDuk]

 

Cheers Nick, after the morning I've had I needed that

[Shenanigans]

I enjoyed this story

[Slapguts]

Hilarious. Thank you.

[ieism]

You have a sick sense off humour, but i like it.

Here's something similar that happened for real,in a zoo in my country about a month ago:

A woman goes to the zoo 4 days a week, only to look at a gorilla named Bokito. She imagines she has a special "thing" with this gorilla. Bokito is kept in a large outdoor habitat, separated from the crowds by a 4 meter wide canal. Gorilla's are said to be afraid of water, but Bokito is a badass gorilla not scared of anything.
Whenever the woman visits, she smiles at the monkey and is delighted to see him smile back. Off course, gorilla's don't smile, especially in a zoo. When they do show you their teeth, that means to want to either kick the #$%* out of you, or make sweat gorilla-love to you.
The 18th of may is a day she will remember. Bokito was smiling like he'd never smiled before. Also some youngsters were trowing little stones at him making him even smile harder. Then Bokito takes a big jump, reaching his big gorilla arms accros the canal, and climbes towards the woman. She tries to flee, but he swings his big gorillafist a few times, and bites her over a hundred times. She survives the atack, and doesn't blame the monkey but sues the zoo.

Biologist that analized the security video say that if she hadn't tried to run, she would have recieved only some gentle slaps on the back and a bit off monkey-love. 

[nickjtc]

Which reminds me of the joke ( told here before, but I can't be bothered to hunt for it)....

One day a little boy is at the zoo with his parents. They are looking at the elephants.

"Mum, what's that thing hanging under the elephant?" the little boys asks.

"That's his trunk." replies Mum.

"No, at the other end. That thing hanging down."

"That's his tail."

"NO. That thing in front of the tail. That thing, hanging down."

The mother is a bit flustered, once she realises what the boy is looking at, and replies "Oh, that's nothing."

Unsatisfied by this reply the little boy walks over to his father and asks the same questions, with the same responses. Finally the father figures out what the boy is asking, and replies, "That's a boy elephant, son, and that thing is his penis.

"Thanks for that, Dad," the boy replies. "But why did Mum say it was nothing?"

"Ah, son, Mum has been spoiled......"