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In 1986, Dan Harrison 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 Dan 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, Dan 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. Dan stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Dan never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Dan 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 Dan and his son Dan Jr. were standing. The large bull elephant stared curiously at Dan, lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the amazing encounter in 1986, Dan couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Dan 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. For a few moments frozen in time the man and the great creature stared silently at each other. The elephant trumpeted again, gently wrapped its trunk around one of Dan's legs and then slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. Probably wasn't the same elephant.
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That's just cold. Funny, but cold.
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LOL... Dumb Dan... hee hee...
HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!
OMG! You got me! LOL!
That IS COLD, really cold... funny too, wow~ didn't expect that... hahahahah... have a beautiful day~ hahahahaha... lots of luv, hugs and :)))))
I kept hoping that it wasn't going to have an ending like that...
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Now THAT was funny :D
Oh no! This one was vicious, Sandee... I di not see it coming. You got me!
Have a great weekend and stay away from elephants!
At first I was wondering where the funny was. I can usually get a good laugh here and I kept waiting for the punch line. Very funny!!
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Have a great weekend on the boat!
Oh Geeze Sandee...I was so touched until the end. Argh~ Dumb Dead Dan!
Have a lovely weekend!
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Kimmie
Bwhahahahahaha! I just cracked up! Don't you think I should expect this kind of ending from you, Sandee... but you always get me! :D
Probably not!
Ha ha ha! We had a advert running in the UK with the same sort of storyline. A little boy had teased the elephant at the zoo. The elephant, many years later, remembered the little boy (who was now a man). He didn't kill the man, but gave him an almighty whack across the face with his trunk ;O)
Oh my gosh - still laughing - and laughing - and still laughing. You are a riot girlie girl!! Happy weekend, pickle.
Everyone has an ultimate moment of stupidity in their lives - apparently that was Dan's!
You never fail to surprise.
Have a great weekend!
Heh heh heh...I got this one in an e-mail a while back and I laughed out loud! Too funny.
(does that make me a sick-o???)c
ROFLMAO!!! Your sick sense of humor reminds me...well...of mine.
didn't see that coming! ha ha ha
smiles, bee
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Yeah-my guess is it was an angry cousin or something. :)
That is hilarious. Unexpected ending and its good. Do post more like this.
Yikes! I didn't see that coming!
OK, I knew it wasn't going to be warm and fuzzy cause it comedy but I wasn't expecting THAT. I was thing mouse, you know, like the one that took the thorn out of the lion's paw. Where's the mouse?
Jen
Too funny. I've seen this before, but I'm so dumb, I always expect the ending to be different and I'm slayed every time. LOL.
And thanks for stopping by my blog. Cheers, eh.
Another great "punch" line. Bwaahaaahaa..
Oh man what kind of ending is that lol! Here I got caught up in the special moment and them bam! hahaha Thanks for the laughs, love & hugs Sandee!! :D
The story was nice until half way, I couldn't help but laughing. Haha. Weird ending. Poor guy.
Yup! this is good gifted thing for elephants.
Indeed they can do even destruction too through their knifes.
With the elephant bull, there is still the additional phenomenon of the musth apart from its size and strength. The musth has the effect that elephant bulls cannot be kept like female elephants. Elephant bulls, which are tied up in the stable for hygiene, are a thing of the past. Where this is still done, a heavy accident is pre-programmed.
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