Chantaburi police to ponder legal action against rubber plantation owner for the death of an elephant

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Police to ponder legal action against rubber plantation owner for the death of an elephant

By Thai PBS

 

 

CHANTABURI: -- Police are awaiting a forensic report from veterinarians about the death of an adult elephant allegedly electrocuted at a rubber plantation in Kaeng Hang Maew district of Chanthaburi on Sunday.

 

Kaeng Hang Maew district police, local administration officials and officials from Ang Rue Nai national park rushed to the rubber plantation in Ban Khao Kong, Tambon Pawa, after an elephant, aged between 8-10 years old, was found dead with its head and trunk straddling on electric wire which ran parallel to the fence.

 

Pol Cpt Surapong Pornngarm, the duty officer who was put in charge of the case, said that the rubber plantation owner ran the electric wire along the fence in order to protect his workers from elephant attacks.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/police-ponder-legal-action-rubber-plantation-owner-death-elephant/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-09-18

[Thian]

So open electric wires even can kill an adult elephant.!

 

On the markets i even see loads of wires laying in puddles and people stepping/driving on them.

In our moobaan there are naked wires everywhere, sometimes they even make loud bangs en lightning flashes.

 

I'll stay far away from all that Thainess.

 

Poor elephant, when the Thai learn that they can make more money with elephants in the wild than with rubbertree's?

 

Or with great coral reefs instead of selling those small bonefull babyfish on the markets?

[tracker1]

Bare mains wires ! stupidity to the max and intentional murder

[Tchooptip]

 Electric fences are on 12-volt car batteries,  delivering 10 000 volts but very few amp like a taser. Tons like that the world over for livestock.

But bare mains wires,   criminal, could easily kill any human passerby too!

[tomwct]

I would also check and see if he was growing rubber on government lands. 

[off road pat]

8 hours ago, Thian said:

So open electric wires even can kill an adult elephant.!

 

On the markets i even see loads of wires laying in puddles and people stepping/driving on them.

In our moobaan there are naked wires everywhere, sometimes they even make loud bangs en lightning flashes.

 

I'll stay far away from all that Thainess.

 

Poor elephant, when the Thai learn that they can make more money with elephants in the wild than with rubbertree's?

 

Or with great coral reefs instead of selling those small bonefull babyfish on the markets?

We would be surprised to know how many people get electrocuted every year in Thailand if the newspapers reported them all !!!

[Thian]

3 hours ago, off road pat said:

We would be surprised to know how many people get electrocuted every year in Thailand if the newspapers reported them all !!!

Yes the guys who work on the power lines i guess. Do people also die from stepping in a puddle on a market? I really fear them but i'm the only one doing so on any market.

 

 

[off road pat]

7 hours ago, Thian said:

Yes the guys who work on the power lines i guess. Do people also die from stepping in a puddle on a market? I really fear them but i'm the only one doing so on any market. Read about someone been electrocuted on the street in BKK walking in the rain a couple of months ago....!