A lesson in elephants she hopefully won't forget

MrBishop

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A 25-year-old woman climbed past barriers and into an elephant's zoo exhibit, then crawled out with minor injuries after the 6,000-pound animal smacked her with its trunk.

"That's how an elephant reacts to something they would perceive as a threat," said Cameron Park Zoo director Jim Fleshman.

After saying she wanted to play with the elephant, the woman climbed over a 3-feet-high wood-and-wire fence, scaled an 8-foot-tall artificial rock structure and bypassed an electric wire before jumping into the exhibit Thursday afternoon, Fleshman said. A moat extends around most of the exhibit.

After the woman got out, fire and emergency crews took her to a hospital with minor injuries, including scrapes on her side and arm. Waco Fire Capt. Greg Kistler said the woman, whose name was not released, was visiting the zoo with a child and another woman.

The exhibit contains two female African elephants that have been at the zoo at least nine years. Only one of the elephants struck the woman.

Both animals were stressed after the incident and were moved to a private area for part of the afternoon, and one didn't want to return to the exhibit even later in the day. But both were back for visitors to see Friday, Fleshman said.

"They're not used to somebody being in their space," he said.
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Bet that smarts!
 
I guess she never saw the video of the elephant that sat on a guys head.
 
We heard a story on the talk radio today about an incident at a zoo in Virginia. A mother took her 4 yr old son to see the 2 bears and decided to climb the embankment to get closer. To make a long story short, bear bites boy but boy escapes with limbs intact. The park gets concerned that the bear might be carrying rabies. In order to test you know they have to kill the bear...but they don't know which one of the two bears bit the boy...so they euthanize them both. The local citizens are outraged and rightfully so.
 
tonksy said:
We heard a story on the talk radio today about an incident at a zoo in Virginia. A mother took her 4 yr old son to see the 2 bears and decided to climb the embankment to get closer. To make a long story short, bear bites boy but boy escapes with limbs intact. The park gets concerned that the bear might be carrying rabies. In order to test you know they have to kill the bear...but they don't know which one of the two bears bit the boy...so they euthanize them both. The local citizens are outraged and rightfully so.
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Is it just me? Exactly how stupid do you have to be to take your 4 year old child into a bear enclosure?
 
There's the legendary footage of the imbecile who slathered her infant's arm with peanut butter while on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in order to get a black bear to eat from said infant's hand. When the bear bit the tot's arm off...
 
Two words: WILD animal

as in...not tamed, not trained and often...not friendly or appreciative of people just dropping in.
 
tonksy said:
We heard a story on the talk radio today about an incident at a zoo in Virginia. A mother took her 4 yr old son to see the 2 bears and decided to climb the embankment to get closer. To make a long story short, bear bites boy but boy escapes with limbs intact. The park gets concerned that the bear might be carrying rabies. In order to test you know they have to kill the bear...but they don't know which one of the two bears bit the boy...so they euthanize them both. The local citizens are outraged and rightfully so.
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That's just stupid, why not give the boy the injections around the belly button and around the mother's ass?
 
Luis G said:
That's just stupid, why not give the boy the injections around the belly button and around the mother's ass?
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Well, that would inflict more pain on the child...and we can't have that. Poor kid, it's not his fault his mother is an imbecile.
 
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