Elephant kills owner, tries to hide him

By The Nation

 

A man was killed by his elephant in Krabi's Khao Phanom district on Sunday.

 

Police said relatives found the body of Amorn Morakot, 50, covered by tree branches near the spot where he had chained his 37-year-old female elephant in Moo 4 village in Tambon Na Khao.

 

An autopsy showed that he had been kicked on his face and several parts of his body.

 

Relatives said Amron had chained his elephant at the side of a rubber plantation after he had it been pulling up logs during the day.

 

Relatives noticed that the man had been away from his house for several hours, so they went looking for him and found his body under the branches of a tree at 8.30pm.

 

They believe the elephant killed him and then tried to conceal his body. They also said the elephant had once attacked and injured Amorn before.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30332567

 

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The elephant was also seen passing out some brown envelopes,

Fascinating. I wonder if she (the elephant) was being abused by the owner?

500 baht fine to the elephant - next story please. 

20 minutes ago, retarius said:

Fascinating. I wonder if she (the elephant) was being abused by the owner?

Yes. It said in the article. He kept her chained up next to his house and made her drag logs all day.

Smart elephant.  It takes some courage to trample the guy who you know can tear your ear off with those cattle prod hooks.

 

I've heard the saying "the elephant in the room", but I've never heard it used like this.   

Any death is tragic, but the elephant's guilt has yet to be proven beyond doubt.  Is there any blood from the man on the elephant ?   Did anyone see the elephant kill the man ? 

Even if there is forensic evidence linking the elephant to the scene of the crime, it is entirely possibly that the death was accidental.  The elephant could have simply not seen the man and sat on him, or could have been startled by a snake and crushed the man whilst backpeddling. At worst that would be considered negligent.

In all probability the owner had been mistreating the Elephant for years and she has had enough.  Good on her I say. 

What does the owner expect when he controls the animal with a long stick with a metal spike at the end ?

Wrong time of the month.  I have the same problem with my wife.

2 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Any death is tragic, but the elephant's guilt has yet to be proven beyond doubt.  Is there any blood from the man on the elephant ?   Did anyone see the elephant kill the man ? 

 

 

How do you think about a wild animal?

 

Guilt or innocence/

 

 

Am waiting to see the elephant pointing or painting.

Good for the elephant!!!

From a sociological point of view, the opening 13 replies are interesting. 6 are cheering the death and 4 are wisecracks. None show sympathy. All with no supporting evidence.

 

What would the responses have been if a farang volunteer at one of the elephant camps had been killed by an elephant?

 

See how people empathise or don't with those of different races.

There is a saying that an elephant never forgets !!!....

 

RIP anyhow to the victim.

I am firmly on the side of the elephant. Bravo!!!!!

How can you own an elephant ?

On 11/27/2017 at 12:03 PM, Briggsy said:

From a sociological point of view, the opening 13 replies are interesting. 6 are cheering the death and 4 are wisecracks. None show sympathy. All with no supporting evidence.

 

What would the responses have been if a farang volunteer at one of the elephant camps had been killed by an elephant?

 

I can't speak for everybody else but it makes no difference to me what race the person abusing the animal is.  If the animal kills them, then I have no sympathy, just like the guy in this story had no sympathy for the elephant he made to pull logs.