Wild mushroom picker seriously injured by a wild elephant in Kaeng Krachan national park

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Wild mushroom picker seriously injured by a wild elephant in Kaeng Krachan national park

 

 

One villager was seriously injured when he was accidentally trampled upon by an apparently panicky wild elephant in a chance encounter at a feeding ground close to the Kaeng Krachan national park in Petchaburi province on Saturday(Oct 7).

 

The victim, Mr Dam Chongcharoen, suffers a broken jaw, a broken left arm and a broken right leg. He was, however, rescued by park rangers and other villagers who put him on a make-shift stretcher and carried out of the forest to a waiting truck and rushed to the Hua Hin hospital.

 

A villager of Ban Pa Teng, Dam and another villager, went into the park to search for wild mushrooms and other forest products since Saturday morning. But on their way back home, they came across a wild elephants at a land plot where crops were grown for the elephants.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/wild-mushroom-picker-seriously-injured-wild-elephant-kaeng-krachan-national-park/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-10-08

[UnkleMoooose]

Don't touch Jumbo's 'shrooms.

[geriatrickid]

Perhaps if the chap was not poaching from protected lands from which  nothing is to be removed, he would not have been injured.

[Gandtee]

1 hour ago, geriatrickid said:

Perhaps if the chap was not poaching from protected lands from which  nothing is to be removed, he would not have been injured.

The elephants were poaching. Picking mushrooms? Oh. I forgot. Two mushroom pickers got a few years behind bars for doing just that.

[canopy]

16 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Two mushroom pickers got a few years behind bars for doing just that.

 

Don't be so gullible. You are believing the sensationalized headlines. They were busted for illegal logging. They unsuccessfully tried to say they were mushroom picking to get off. Every single court found them guilty of being complicit in illegal logging. The evidence was overwhelming. I'd say it's time to consider that just maybe they were guilty as charged and their mushroom story was just a smokescreen that you and others ate up.