News Thailand - overworked elephant decapitates owner (allegedly)

[MicroBrew]

- A 20 year old male elephant in Thailand pierced and decapitates his 32 year old owner.
- News says it was hot and the animal was overworked.
- Elephant was being to hail logs

- The victim was found in a pool of blood
Rescue workers, officers and the village chief went to the scene of the incident and saw Wongfaed’s body in the middle of a rubber plantation. They reportedly found his corpse split in half in a pool of blood with Pom Pam standing over it.

https://www.newsweek.com/elephant-rips-owner-half-making-him-work-heat-1734738

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/overworked-elephant-rips-thai-owner-180748184.html

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Anyone have further info? Is this story legit? Newsweek is reporting so odds are it is but am skeptical, because the Asiatic elephants don't generally have tusks, but some do.

 

[Noveltymortar]

Naughty Pom Pam!

 

[Five Fingered Fresh Fist]

 

[Snowblindlove]

They always say Elephants never forget

 

[Bunk Moreland]

https://www.newsweek.com/elephant-kills-woman-returns-funeral-tramples-corpse-india-1715075

this is crazy too.

 

[west42]

Hail logs are a bitch, no doubt

 

[Zazen]

This is why you should never do anything elephant related in Thailand unless you know for a fact it is a sanctuary that rescues abused elephants. Scumbags keep doing this for that tourist money.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Sometimes enough is enough.

 

[Tankeray]

Good. Fucker deserved it

 

[Tone C]

 

[Batjester]

We've all felt like that elephant.

 

[Fugazy]

Didn’t know elephants were used as beasts of burden. Seems like a terrible idea.

 

[MicroBrew]

This is why you should never do anything elephant related in Thailand unless you know for a fact it is a sanctuary that rescues abused elephants. Scumbags keep doing this for that tourist money.

Yup. There are these places that take tourists on elephant rides. A lot of people just think oh it's just like horse rides, and don't realize that many of these places keep the animals in small enclosures. Elephants shouldn't be in capitivity and should be allowed to form family groups.

 

[Bacco]

Anyone have further info? Is this story legit? Newsweek is reporting so odds are it is but am skeptical, because the Asiatic elephants don't generally have tusks, but some do.

Thai elephants here in the pic

btw elephant does'nt need very long tusks to pierce an human, they pin down whatever smaller creature they want to kill and crush them pushing down face first on it

 

[NoSmilez]

Elephants are kinda dicks especially the males. I don't think the heat made it go crazy. It's 89 degrees. That is pretty normal for Thailand

 

[Fluffernutter]

Yup. There are these places that take tourists on elephant rides. A lot of people just think oh it's just like horse rides, and don't realize that many of these places keep the animals in small enclosures. Elephants shouldn't be in capitivity and should be allowed to form family groups.

Went to a kid's birthday party in India years ago.

They rented an elephant and let kids ride it. I didn't let my kid near it.

The handler used a fireplace poker to "direct" the elephant.

One parent and their preschooler hopped on the elephant and the handler have it a slight whack to get it to start walking down the block.

The elephant had had enough. It pulled up a small tree and tossed it in the road. It then knocked over a gate.

I took my kid and left

 

[MicroBrew]

Went to a kid's birthday party in India years ago.

They rented an elephant and let kids ride it. I didn't let my kid near it.

The handler used a fireplace poker to "direct" the elephant.

One parent and their preschooler hopped on the elephant and the handler have it a slight whack to get it to start walking down the block.

The elephant had had enough. It pulled up a small tree and tossed it in the road. It then knocked over a gate.

I took my kid and left

Several years ago me and sibling's family were vacationing on the Riviera Maya. There are many tour companies that operate out of the resorts that sell you packages to various excursions and parks. The nephew and niece wanted to visist one that had dolphins which were kept in a sort of lagoon. I was pretty adamant that we should not , as there is a lot of abuse in that entertainment, with the animals being cooped up and forced to perform.

 

[Kardashians]

LEAVE THE FUCKING ELEPHANTS ALONE

god people suck. got what he had coming

 

[Michaelangelo]

Should’ve gored him twice

 

[clutchCAT420]

Should’ve gored him twice

I imagine it went like this..