April 12, 2007
When Elephants Attack

No, really, when elephants attack.

Note to self: When on safari in Africa, do not let the guides steer the boat anywhere near a shoreline containing large, pissed-off pachyderms with little babies in tow. Nothing good comes of it.

Posted by scott at April 12, 2007 11:50 AM

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And yet another pair of yuppie morons finds out the hard way that nature isn't about cute fuzzy animals that want to play for the cameras.

Problem is, this kind of stupidity actually works often enough to fool people into thinking they really are sufficiently "in tune with nature" that they need never fear any animal attack. Like the "bear lover" who got himself and his girlfriend eaten, they actually manage to pet and occasionally even molest wild animals without harm, not because the animals love them, but because they've seen what armed hunters can do, and since the human is showing no signs of fear, the animal doesn't risk launching an attack that (it thinks) would end in its death.

Eventually these "nature lovers" run across an animal too young or inexperiened to be afraid of them, or too old, sick, or hungry to care about being shot, and they get the truth about nature in one quick and usually fatal dose.

Posted by: tatterdemalian on April 13, 2007 10:20 AM
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