Elephant crushes villager

[Lite Beer]

Elephant crushes villager
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- An elephant has stomped a man to death in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Kaeng Krachan National Park.

Ban Chalermpol village headman Watchara Kamporn said the victim, Detchai Chuanpadung, 50, was gathering wild vegetables in the forest in tambon Huai Sat Yai, Hua Hin district, when he was killed on Friday night.

Detchai's neighbours went looking for him and found his body at about 10pm, so they alerted Watchara.

A 20-strong team of volunteers went to retrieve the body but encountered an elephant herd near the it, Watchara said.

He said they drove the animals off by lighting firecrackers and retrieved the body at about 2am.

-- The Nation 2014-04-20

[The stuttering parrot]

What a way to go.

We normally hear of people getting killed by elephants for teasing them.

This guy was just out collecting vegetables.

I wonder whether it was just the wrong place wrong time.

His last minutes must have been terrifying so hopefully it's quick.

RIP

[ChrisY1]

These herds of elephant at the park are constantly harrassed by visitors with fire crackers, ping pong bombs and guns......there's many people visiting this area now and encounters with the elephants are frequent, especially at dusk and early morning.....they're on the roads and sometimes do not move.....until they are scared off with these explosives.

They're obviously quite nervous as this guy found out.

[The stuttering parrot]

I wonder what kick people get out of throwing crackers at these beautiful creatures.

And in a national park set up to protect them!

[Charlie1]

The second deadly case this year.. In January, a young american woman was killed as well. She thought, being a biology student, that she could go hiking alone in Kaeng Krachan. As people keep on intruding the living room of wild animals, this will not be the last deadly case at all, I fear. By the way, people in Huay sat Yai don't throw the firecrackers inside the park. They throw them at elephants, walking through the village, but without much effect as they come back every night. This is due to the fact that the village is exactly in the way the elephants have been using for at least decades, on their way to the river there. So, the village should actually dissapear...

Edited April 20, 2014 by Charlie1

[Just1Voice]

I didn't see it in the print news, but last week on the television it showed a big bull throwing it's mahat off, stomping on him, picking him up by the leg, throwing the man around and killing him. Then it attacked another elephant and knocked it down.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Thing is that elephants are just exceptionally dangerous animals.

Which makes it all the more puzzling why they are actively placed near people, or why tourists are so eager to visit elephant camps and even ride them, bathe them, etc.

They're among the most dangerous animals in Thailand. (Well behind dogs of course which are pretty much the worst when it comes to vermin.)

We don't let our kids anywhere near elephants (or dogs for that matter).

Edited April 20, 2014 by WinnieTheKhwai

[Loles]

poor guy, just wanted to pick up some wild veg.

RIP amigo

[MMarlow]

I wonder what kick people get out of throwing crackers at these beautiful creatures.

And in a national park set up to protect them!

They don't get a kick out of it and the elephants are not harmed, they're simply using them to scare the elephants away when they try to eat the villagers fruit or vegetable crops.

[circusman]

I didn't see it in the print news, but last week on the television it showed a big bull throwing it's mahat off, stomping on him, picking him up by the leg, throwing the man around and killing him. Then it attacked another elephant and knocked it down.

That might be a video I saw on Youtube about a year ago. There are several videos there of elephants getting revenge on people.

[Dibbler]

The second deadly case this year.. In January, a young american woman was killed as well. She thought, being a biology student, that she could go hiking alone in Kaeng Krachan. As people keep on intruding the living room of wild animals, this will not be the last deadly case at all, I fear. By the way, people in Huay sat Yai don't throw the firecrackers inside the park. They throw them at elephants, walking through the village, but without much effect as they come back every night. This is due to the fact that the village is exactly in the way the elephants have been using for at least decades, on their way to the river there. So, the village should actually dissapear...

Very true. Elephants use very old movement routes that they remember, and are probably taught by their mothers. And when people build roads, villages and dams in the way, they simply go through or around them to move between their feeding grounds. The only solution to avoid conflict is to move villages and fields and restore those movement routes to forest, or for villagers to be very tolerant. It doesn't help that Kaeng Krachan is one of the least protected parks in Thailand, rampant with poaching, so elephants naturally move out of the park to avoid gunshots, snares, vehicle traffic, and other human disturbance.

[chiang mai]

I wonder what kick people get out of throwing crackers at these beautiful creatures.

And in a national park set up to protect them!

The world is not always as in National Geographic with rapid response teams of vets and animal welfare types, able to be marshaled into action at a moments notice. Sometimes, most often I would guess, the locals do whatever it is they can based on limited knowledge, blame the education system.

[ginjag]

Very sad end to his life and loss to friends and family.

Now just comment on why in a national park would this guy be out at night gathering veg in the forest. He must have known being a local that Elephants are about in the area.

In the dark picking veg ?? at that time. makes me wonder why people have to do this. Is there no wild veg in a daytime ??? This is Thailand but personally I would want to be in the home with my family having had a shower and settling down for the night.

Wondered if he lived within the parks restricted area. These situations should be avoided.

[HerbalEd]

What a way to go.

We normally hear of people getting killed by elephants for teasing them.

This guy was just out collecting vegetables.

I wonder whether it was just the wrong place wrong time.

His last minutes must have been terrifying so hopefully it's quick.

RIP

We don't know what this man did ... or did not ... do when he encountered the elephant.

[JamesHawkins]

Very sad end to his life and loss to friends and family.

Now just comment on why in a national park would this guy be out at night gathering veg in the forest. He must have known being a local that Elephants are about in the area.

In the dark picking veg ?? at that time. makes me wonder why people have to do this. Is there no wild veg in a daytime ??? This is Thailand but personally I would want to be in the home with my family having had a shower and settling down for the night.

Wondered if he lived within the parks restricted area. These situations should be avoided.

I suspect he went out in the late afternoon when it was a bit cooler. In contact with elephant at dusk and killed. When he didn't return after dark and checking with neighbors etc. to be sure he wasn't visiting ... they went out to search for him . Took to 10 pm to find him. Nothing unusual, I don't think.

[jsflynn603]

Most likely musch.

"Musth or must /ˈmʌst/ is a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones. Testosterone levels in an elephant in musth can be as much as 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times. However, whether this hormonal surge is the sole cause of musth, or merely a contributing factor, is unknown; scientific investigation of musth is problematic because even the most placid elephants become highly violent toward humans and other elephants during musth, requiring segregation and isolation until they recover. Female elephants do not undergo musth."

[SeaVisionBurma]

A flippant nonsense troll post has been removed.