Pattaya: Chinese tour guide dead after tourist enrages elephant by pulling tail

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Pattaya: Chinese tour guide dead after tourist enrages elephant by pulling tail

 

Picture: Siamchon News

 

A Chinese tour guide was killed by an elephant yesterday after a tourist "behaving badly" enraged an elephant at a Pattaya camp.

 

The 17 year old male elephant called Uthen was carrying two tourists on its back near a group of other tourists.

 

One of the tourists on the ground thought it was funny to pull its tail and it started charging, reported Siam Chon News.

 

Tour guide leader Mr He Yongjie was trying to get his clients clear of the elephant but was hit and kicked. He died at the scene and was covered in a white cloth.

 

One tourist was tossed off the elephant - another held on before mahout U Rungram managed to calm the elephant.

 

Two other people who fell in the melee were taken to hospital.

 

Sakda in charge of safety at the Sam Liam Thong Kham (Golden Triangle) Camp said that they tried to get the tourists on the ground to safety but there was a lot of them and in the confusion everyone ran in different directions.

 

The mahout blamed one of the tourists for bad behavior in pulling the tail of the elephant enraging it.

 

Huay Yai police are continuing their investigation.

 

Source: Siamchon News

 

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[nikmar]

of all the idiotic things to do!!!

 

RIP to the deceased.

[darksidedog]

Unbelievable depth of stupidity to do that. I hope that the idiot is identified and charged with causing the death of the tour guide. Quality tourist he is not.

[colinneil]

How could anybody be that stupid?

Stupid tourist probably thought it was just a joke.

Poor guide killed just trying to take care of the tourists.

Elephants are magnificent creatures, they have feelings to, 

Edited December 22, 2017 by colinneil

[Darcula]

Feeling sorry for Sakda. Why did this have to happen on his watch?

[canuckamuck]

What was the nationality of the tourist?

[worgeordie]

Poking Tigers and pulling the tails of Elephants is not something

you should do if you value your life,he  thought it was funny but

the Elephant did not.these animals must be stressed out,so like

Thai drivers any little thing can set them off !

regards worgeordie  Happy Christmas to all

[Dave67]

Not Wacist by any standard and having to work in the backwaters of China, not Beijing or Shanghai, Its like the people are on another planet, we used to call it the Middle Kingdom or The Land That time forgot.

 

[irwinfc]

too bad Darwin struck the wrong one here. RIP mr. tour guide

[Destiny1990]

Let those elephants roam freely around without taking rides with tourists.

[Toscano]

Chinese tourists to Thailand are note for their rudeness and bad behavior . 

[sammieuk1]

Elephants have memory Tigers take note!.

[Justgrazing]

38 minutes ago, Toscano said:

Chinese tourists to Thailand are note for their rudeness and bad behavior . 

And now it would appear also their stupidity ..

[whitemouse]

Wild animals should not be kept for amusement of people. 

[Catoni]

1 hour ago, Destiny1990 said:

Let those elephants roam freely around without taking rides with tourists.

     let 'em roam freely...poachers take them for their tusks...and if they get sick...there's no vetenarian to treat them.

 

 They don't mind working with people and giving people rides as long as the people are friendly and don't start annoying them. 

   Same as a horse, dog or cat.....   be kind and caring... they can be wonderful companions.... annoy them or treat them wrong... they can turn on you 

[bkk6060]

Truly sad and disgusting.

[InMyShadow]

Like a thai male the elephant overreacted after losing face.

[Catoni]

25 minutes ago, whitemouse said:

Wild animals should not be kept for amusement of people. 

Those elephants that people ride are not wild.  If they were wild.... you would never even get near them, let alone ride on them.

 

     They are domesticated...  like domesticated horses and dogs and cats.

 

   Treat them right... and they don't mind giving you a ride.  Treat them wrong... and they can turn on you.... as even dogs and cats and horses will if you treat them wong.  Many years ago, I witnessed a horse turn on a man who was misteating it.....  putting the idiot in a hospital...  

 

    And we all know cats and dogs will bite if you mistreat them...     Easy solution... be kind to the elephants and treat them right...   Be their friend, and they are happy to be with you and give you a ride like horses give us rides...

Edited December 22, 2017 by Catoni
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[pattayadon]

Quality tourists .....  Take that Thailand.   Many more on the way.     RIP tour guide!

[SidJames]

Said tourist should be up on a charge.

 

[Briggsy]

I thought foreign tour guides were illegal.

[hansnl]

1 hour ago, Dave67 said:

Not Wacist by any standard and having to work in the backwaters of China, not Beijing or Shanghai, Its like the people are on another planet, we used to call it the Middle Kingdom or The Land That time forgot.

The problem is that many have the MKS syndrome.....

[dfdgfdfdgs]

24 minutes ago, Catoni said:

     let 'em roam freely...poachers take them for their tusks...and if they get sick...there's no vetenarian to treat them.

 

 

Khao Yai national park is full of wild elephants and there are armed guards patrolling the jungle 24 hours a day.  It's the same for many of the other national parks and wildlife sanctuaries where there are tigers, bears and elephants.

 

Your argument that animals should be locked in captivity in case they get sick is very stupid.  They managed fine for millions of years without vets.

 

And female asian elephants don't have tusks, nor do a lot of the males.  They're not the same as their african cousins.

Edited December 22, 2017 by dfdgfdfdgs

[dfdgfdfdgs]

27 minutes ago, Catoni said:

 They don't mind working with people and giving people rides as long as the people are friendly and don't start annoying them. 

 

 

The only way they will let any human near them is if they are tortured (usually as a baby) to 'break their spirit'.

 

"They don't mind" - how do you know?  I suspect their obedience is more to do with their awareness of a sharp metal hook just behind their ear.

[Catoni]

2 minutes ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

 

Khao Yai national park is full of wild elephants and there are armed guards patrolling the jungle 24 hours a day.  It's the same for many of the other national parks and wildlife sanctuaries where there are tigers, bears and elephants.

 

Your argument that animals should be locked in captivity in case they get sick is very stupid.  They managed fine for millions of years without vets.

    If you call a brutl and shorter life "..managing fine..."      These elephants used for rides are NOT wild animals.  They have been domesticated....  like with horses and dogs and cats. 

  

      Or do you also believe we should release all our horses and dogs and cats back into the wild also ? ?  After all, they managed fine for such a long time....

[Basil B]

Easy to blame a tourist for what could be poor management of the park.

 

Do they have proof or is this another Thai PR thing, do not blame us...

 

Suppose they will have difficulty in tracing the Chinese person as they all look alike. 

Edited December 22, 2017 by Basil B

[12DrinkMore]

2 minutes ago, Catoni said:

They have been domesticated

 

They have been tied to posts, tortured into obedience and ruled with the threat of more pain.

 

Should be banned.

 

Outright. 

[dfdgfdfdgs]

You cannot domesticate an elephant without the use of torture.  An elephant is not a fat horse.  When was the last time you saw a dog being strapped down and beaten, cut, stabbed, to 'domesticate' it?

 

If the elephant was born in captivity it might not need to go through the full severity of the breaking the spirit process, but it will still need to be abused on a daily basis (the ear hook being the weapon of choice) to 'train' it.  That's why you see so many elephants with holes in their ears and blood around the ears.

 

Living in the wild, eating and doing elephant things is not 'brutal'.  Dragging around ignorant tourists for hours every day is.

 

By your logic, let's capture you and lock you in a prison, and make you work all day, every day.  After all real life is brutal so you should prefer the prison, right?

[Time Traveller]

3 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

What was the nationality of the tourist?

Does it matter?

[Ron19]

A disgusting troll post has been removed.