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Thought some of you might appreciate this from a photography site.
"On January 7th of this year, a woman was on a safari tour in Tanzania. See, apparently she was a volunteer for the Peace Corps and had decided to see a bit of the animal life in its natural habitat. Well, someone should have told her that 'natural habitat' does not include people wanting a better picture. Seems like she wanted a good snapshot of an elephant during a tour of Ruaha National Park, and proceeded to get out of the tour bus and approach the beast for a close up. Well, Simba didn't like that, and charged the woman, crushing her head with his enormous feet, as well as the camera.
The bus driver, Samua Selbir, told the associated press that, "The elephant saw her approaching and got scared. I told the women to get back in the bus but she told me that she is in the peace corps and know how to handle the elephant. The next thing I knew I saw the animal (elephant) walk up to the women, kick her legs from under her, then placed his heavy foot on top of her head. Her brain came right out of her skull and the blood and brain pieces spewed onto my bus."
The husband of the women, living in Chicago, gave the following short statement:
"Brenda was a women that had more of a passion for animals than Mother Theresa had for humans. I can picture my wife's face with a huge smile on it while the elephant was crushing her skull, and I know that she would never blame an animal for protecting itself. I have been asked if I blame the animal for her death, and I don't. I blame the American government for spending money on a possible war with Iraq instead of placing that money where it belongs, and it belongs in animal behavioral research. My wife would be alive today, possibly making love to me right this moment, if America backed off of Iraq and spent that money not on war machines, but on elephant hypothalamus research".
Moral of the story to my fellow Nikonites: Always respect your subject!
-------------------- Jim Upchurch Artworks Olympia WA Posts: 797 | From: Olympia, WA | Registered: Nov 1998
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The husband should get Johnnie Cochrane to sue the Elephant...!! I can see Johnnie's smile on his face as he crushes the man's wallet.
Maybe the US government could teach courses to moronic city-dwellers on how not to frighten or intimidate wild animals that could tip over their SUV while just passing gas!?!
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Just think, some of these people will be in politics soon, and will no doubt get support for such moronic programs. Check on your school age children, find out what views they are being taught !
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"Simba" is the KiSwahili word for "Lion". An elephant is "Tembo".
Years ago I was filming some Lions for a Nature Documentary. As we approached the beasts I slipped off my rugged hiking boots and put on a set of Nike runners. My director looked at me scornfully and said "You'll never out run a lion in those." to which I replied "I know, but I'll be able to out run you."
-------------------- Army Dave Oz Posts: 229 | From: Brisbane, Oz | Registered: Feb 2002
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man protesting the looming U.S. war on Iraq fell to his death from San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge on Wednesday as he was hanging a banner, officials said.
"He appears to have been hanging a banner of some kind," said California Highway Patrol officer Timothy Willock. "We're not sure if he decided to jump or slipped while he was, you know, hanging the banner. That's unclear right now."
Anti-war sentiment is strong in the San Francisco Bay Area but the death of the man in his 30s was the first related to the latest protests over the U.S.-led war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
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