Elephant electrocuted in Samut Prakan while begging for food

By The Nation

 

An elephant was electrocuted while being led by its owner to beg on a Samut Prakan street after it accidentally fell into a road drain and broke a restaurant sign’s power cable.

 

The Bang Phli police were alerted at 9.50pm that an elephant had been shocked unconscious on Thepharak road in front of Wat Bang Phli Yai in Samut Prakan’s Bang Phli district.

 

The police coordinated with the Portecktueng Foundation and Samut Prakan’s Livestock Development Office.

 

Rescuers from the foundation arrived at the scene first and used a crane to lift the elephant from the drain.

In an operation that was broadcast on Facebook Live, the rescuers tried to resuscitate the elephant with advice from Phattarapol Manee-on, a veterinarian of the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department.

 

Later on, vets from province’s Livestock Development Office arrived to give it an injection for heart resuscitation. Some 20 vets and rescuers tried unsuccessfully for another two hours to revive the majestic pachyderm before the vets pronounced it dead.

 

Its owner, Phansa Yanamkham, 15, was arrested and charged with moving an elephant out of its province without permission, said Suraphan Noisa-ard, chief of the Bang Phli Livestock Development Office.

 

Phansa said he and his elephant, Phan Larn (Billion), came from Surin to make a living by asking passers-by to purchase food for the elephant.

 

Phansa said he and the elephant had stopped at the car park of a shabu shop to sell elephant food to shop patrons. When they were leaving, the elephant stepped on a wooden lid of a manhole drain.

 

The lid broke, and as the elephant fell into the drain, it broke the power cable of the shop’s sign, causing a short-circuit that electrocuted it.

 

Phansa said he shouted to the shop to pull the sign’s plug and people in the neighbourhood contacted the authorities for help.

 

Surphan said vets from Lampang would perform a post-mortem on Saturday to determine the cause of death.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30354528

 

 

A 15 year old owner? I don't believe this news.

I thought this was supposed to be illegal now like begging in general. The 15year old is probably the son of the owner perhaps? A local restaurant my family used to visit would have an elephant and a young kid come in everynight. Its cruelty in my eyes.

The guy got a fine ! What a bout the one responsible for the stupid wooden cover over the electric power cables???

Probably rotten and this elephant was the unfortunately tester and gave his life, while testing it.

The guy should be compensated, ok maybe illegal there with elephant, but the owner of the manhole is responsible 

However you cant get the elephant back again, it died on stupid negligence.

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Its owner, Phansa Yanamkham, 15, was arrested and charged

And doesn't that explain it all?

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Surphan said vets from Lampang would perform a post-mortem on Saturday to determine the cause of death.

Cause of death is extreme stupidity.

Probably best thing for the poor elephant. Saved from years of misery.

Happy now in elephant heaven.  

RCDs save elephants as well as humans.

 

Fit one tomorrow today.

Sides of the roads are death traps here, holes everywhere, someone should have warned the elephant. Double whammy with electricution, she must have thought, just my ****ing luck

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Wow so there was no electrical breaker on the shops sign and it even could kill an elephant...

 

And begging or walking on tarmac with elephants is also forbidden. That's why you don't see that in BKK anymore.

 

 

18 hours ago, RotMahKid said:

A 15 year old owner? I don't believe this news.

Believe it this is Thailand !!!!

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10 hours ago, malibukid said:

3rd world country.  don't get me started on Thailand and it's non existent safety codes.  stupid people.  Thai people are not concerned with looking at future scenarios in planning.  public safety is a travesty here.  on top of that they are very pig headed and will not listen to sound advice.

Is that why you don't live here or you moved away?

RIP to the magnificent Nellie.

20 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

Is that why you don't live here or you moved away?

RIP to the magnificent Nellie.

Not to change the subject  which is about the elephant (magnificent beasts who should never be reduces to begging, RIP Nellie)  but I don't get people who come here to get away from the way things are at their home country , and then complain why things are not the same as their own country, I know things need to improve for the Thai people  .

They are, and they will! in my 13 years here the change have being incredible.

But from my own personal, selfish point of view   I wish would never change,The good , the bad , and the strange are the ingredients that make Thailand  great IMO.

On 9/15/2018 at 12:06 PM, rooster59 said:

Surphan said vets from Lampang would perform a post-mortem on Saturday to determine the cause of death.

It was electrocuted.

Elefant don't need a owner just let them be in the jungle

Animals don't belong in the city 

it is cruelty to animals 

Stop make money for your self and let the animals live where they belong 

We all need to protect the nature and animals from people 

Stop give money or food to vendors as this please 

RIP 

6 hours ago, Kim J said:

The manner in which the animals were treated was utterly appaling and the Mahoots were openly selling ivory trinkets.

Agree, though the trinkets they were selling were almost certainly fake. 

12 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Elefant don't need a owner just let them be in the jungle

Animals don't belong in the city 

it is cruelty to animals 

Stop make money for your self and let the animals live where they belong 

We all need to protect the nature and animals from people 

Stop give money or food to vendors as this please 

RIP 

It's just that there is not enough jungle left for all of them.

Elephants and people are living and working together since thousands of years.

Of course nowadays transportation of construction materials is done by machines, that's why we see elephants working for the tourists.

I would not really take a ride on an elephant just for fun, but i like to see the young elephants interacting with humans, they are as funny as little babies.

It's not true that every mahut treats them poorly, even it's obvious that it can happen.