snoop1130 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Selfie-craze almost costs runners their lives as elephant sees red By The Nation Two runners, who tried to take selfie with a wild elephant in Khao Yai National Park, had to sprint for their lives after it turned on them and chased them. Their encounter was captured by a Facebook user, Kamron Petprayoon, who was taking photos of the male elephant after spotting him on a roadside leading to the national park. The runners had tried to take photos with the elephant despite repeated warnings by park authorities to avoid bothering the elephants and taking photos with them, as they were wild animals. Kamron wrote on his Facebook page that he went to the park on September 13, taking a road from Prachin Buri province. After passing the checkpoint at about 4pm, he spotted the pachyderm that was eating leaves on a side of the road about a kilometre from the checkpoint. “I stopped my car and took photos of the elephant. Drivers of vehicles that followed me along the road spotted it also and refused to drive past it. So I led them past the elephant which appeared to pay no attention to us.” After passing it, Kamron parked his car with the engine on to be ready in case of emergency. “After about 14 kilometres, the elephant was eating leaves when I saw two runners go near the animal and take selfies with it. When they went nearer, I turned to change my lens. When I turned back, I saw the elephant quietly running towards them.” Kamron said he shouted “watch out” and the runners sprinted for their lives. During those three seconds, Kamron said he took about 35 photos of the elephant chasing the two. “When the runners had gone far ahead of the animal, it stopped chasing. But when they stopped running, it chased them again but this time, it made a loud noise. This happened about three times. After that, the apparently angry pachyderm stood in the middle of the road, blocking all vehicles until park officials came to chase it away. Meanwhile, Kanchit Sri-noppawan, chief of the national park, said the runners should not have gone near the elephant to take selfies. “Such acts are very dangerous because if the elephant gets angry, it could attack and kill them. It’s a warning to other tourists as well. They are very lucky that the animal was not very angry. “People can gauge an elephant’s feelings by looking at its ears and tails. If it is moving its ears back and forth, it suggests that it is in a good mood. But if it raises its ears and points its tail, that’s a warning that it is very disturbed and could harm people.” Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327314 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-9-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGareth2 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Darwin award? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxpower Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Som nam na Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinsdale Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Is it just me or are people actually becoming more stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thian Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 9 minutes ago, dinsdale said: Is it just me or are people actually becoming more stupid. Are you saying that making selfies is stupid? You no hab fayboo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven100 Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 what do you call an elephant on the road .... sir ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinsdale Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Thian said: Are you saying that making selfies is stupid? You no hab fayboo? Seriously it's lucky one or both of them weren't killed. Couple of tons of angry elephant chasing you. IDIOTS. Edited September 22, 2017 by dinsdale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Selfies for FB overwhelms any vestige of intelligence. I am surprised that FB has not set up any Governments in SE Asian countries. FB already determines which crimes are to be investigated by Thai police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkidlad Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Selfies are for narcissists. I've never taken a selfie. Why would I? So I can send to someone or post online and get people to like it and say I'm handsome? Oh, now I see why. Likes are the video game points. And people using filters and photo-shop to make themselves look fairer-skinned or thinner. Meeting people from dating sites must make dating a real disappointment nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senechal Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Vanity is dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YetAnother Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, steven100 said: what do you call an elephant on the road .... sir ! so they thought this 5500kg huge wild animal was their pet ? Edited September 22, 2017 by YetAnother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggusoil Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 3 hours ago, dinsdale said: Is it just me or are people actually becoming more stupid. Its not you . . . Your observations are in sync with reality. IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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