Elephant goes on bike-crunching rampage
When an elephant gets upset this is what can happen…An angry elephant has gone on a rampage in southern India, smashing a line of rickshaws and motorcycles.
Whether it was just having a bad day or was spooked by someone or something, the elephant wasn't in the mood for a tea party, tossing the vehicles around with his trunk and slamming them to the ground. All this while two people riding on his back held on for their lives during a Hindi festival.
Check out the footage here:
The elephant was eventually tranquilised, and no-one was hurt — except for the local insurance company…
It's the second incident in a month, after a large elephant rumbled through a neighbourhood in a town in West Bengal state in February 10, knocking over walls and stomping on motorcycles.
Four tranquiliser darts were used to knock out the elephant.
There were about 27,000 elephants in India when the most recent estimation was done in 2008, so we reckon two losing their temper isn't too bad.
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