The Daily Mail reports: "Safari horror as Spanish tourist, 43, is trampled to death by elephants in front of his fiancee after stopping to take pictures of the herd in South African game reserve." The problem wasn't so much the taking of pictures as how he went about it:
Despite warnings from his three fellow passengers to get back into the car the tourist, aged 43, said he wanted to get close-ups of the six elephants and got out and walked towards them.
With a set-up like that, you know things are going to turn out badly, and voila!
A huge 3.5-ton adult female cow protecting the young members of the herd was spooked and charged at the man and she was joined by the other two adult bulls who also attacked.
The screaming Spaniard was racing back with his camera to safety through the bush to his friends in the car but was overtaken by the chasing herd who knocked him down and trampled him to death.
All that witnesses said was left after the 30-second attack was the tattered blood-soaked clothing of the tourist and the remnants of the tourist's body crushed into the earth.
So no open casket funeral?
For some reason, it reminded me of this song:
VIDEO: "Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye" (5 min.)
As Capstick said: "elephants have a variety of ways to kill you; no matter which way, death by elephant is icky!"
ReplyDeleteHeh! Very true.
DeleteI believe things like this is why the Darwin Award was created; stupidity is its own reward.
ReplyDeleteAlso, why telephoto lenses were invented.
Exactly! I almost wonder if the dead man was using a cell phone.
DeleteFAFO
ReplyDeleteYup.
DeleteStep off the safari and into the food chain.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't get to be at the top of the food chain by taking selfies with animals.
DeleteI'm thinking this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw (Dumb Ways to Die)
ReplyDeleteI had not seen this one before. Funny!
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