rooster59 Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkleMoooose Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Don't touch Jumbo's 'shrooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geriatrickid Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Perhaps if the chap was not poaching from protected lands from which nothing is to be removed, he would not have been injured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandtee Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canopy Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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