In 1986, Elmer Wagner was on a year long trek in Africa after graduating
from college. While on a safari in Kenya, he became separated from his
group during a hike through the bush. As he searched for his camp he came
across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The
elephant seemed distressed so Elmer approached it very carefully. Knowing
that this went against everything he had been told, Elmer got down on one
knee and inspected the elephant's foot, and found a large thorn deeply
embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Elmer worked the thorn 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 stern look on its face,
stared at him. For several tense moments Elmer stood frozen, thinking of
nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly,
turned and walked away. Elmer never forgot that elephant or the events of
that day.

Twenty years later he 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 Elmer and Elmer Jr. were
standing. The large bull elephant stared at Elmer and 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 Kenya, Elmer couldn't help wondering if
this was the same elephant. Elmer 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. Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again,
wrapped its trunk around one of the man's legs and swung him wildly back
and forth along the railing, killing him.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

How tragic!

anticlimax

LMAO!!! ROFLMAO!!!