Pattaya_Fox Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Our Pattaya City News night journalist was alerted to a hungry elephant that had gone on the rampage in Soi Postisan, Naklua. Inside Soi 10 was a 60 years old elephant who was destroying fences to get to trees and other plants for some much needed nourishment. The elephant master, known in Thai as the Mahoot, is Khun Pong 53, who arrived and quickly brought the animal under control. This particular elephant works at an Elephant Show in North Pattaya and apparently escaped whilst her master was asleep. Although this elephant is not a stray, this case highlights the potential problems with the many stray elephants that can be found in the Pattaya and Jomtien areas. If the elephants suffer from a lack of food they can become aggressive and destructive, and if approached, the animal could kill or seriously injure a person. We have sent pictures to Pattaya City Hall to highlight this potential problem. Pattaya City News Saturday 3rd September 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 When ever I visit either soi 7 or 8 beach road, I find elephants along with the Thai men selling elephant feed. Loud music drunken farang men approaching the elephants from behind. I am always horrified to see farang men paying to feed the elephants. Really this is an tragedy waiting to happen, It dosent take a genus to predict what will happen, it is just matter of time. Any person feeding these elephants in these circumstances is no more than an idiot and deserves to be crushed to death....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppa Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 rocky , the money the falans give to the manhoots is not going to feed the elephants its going in the manhoots pocket , do you realy think you could take a hungry elephant anywhere , trust me if that elephant was hungry you have to feed it first or else its going nowhere , its another scam and a very cruel one at that , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tufty Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 rocky , the money the falans give to the manhoots is not going to feed the elephants its going in the manhoots pocket , do you realy think you could take a hungry elephant anywhere , trust me if that elephant was hungry you have to feed it first or else its going nowhere , its another scam and a very cruel one at that , <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And here's me thinking they survived solely on a diet of small bananas bought by farang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbo Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 I seem to remember it being made illegal to parade elephants around the bars. About 18 months ago. Correct me if I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattaya_Fox Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 I seem to remember it being made illegal to parade elephants around the bars. About 18 months ago. Correct me if I'm wrong. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Blind eye per norm!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 It is also illegal to kill in Thailand, Though many of the Thai girls are killing their farang boyfriends and getting away with it. In the bigger picture I wouldn’t imagine elephants would be that much of a problem to the police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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