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#1 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:03 pm

AN INTERESTING STORY!

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....

Veda · #2 Unread post by **Veda** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:08 pm

Oh no! I almost didn't keep reading the story because I thought it was going too be too sappy.

Septimus · #3 Unread post by **Septimus** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:36 pm

This is a great story for jerks like me but it is (un)fortunately false:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/elephant.asp

Shorts · #4 Unread post by **Shorts** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:25 pm

#5 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:11 pm

Septimus wrote:This is a great story for jerks like me but it is (un)fortunately false:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/elephant.asp

I hesitated putting this into the Funny Farm topic because I wanted people to get sucked into the punchline...

Someone actually tried to pass this off as a true story...