Elephants gone wild!

A story picked up by many websites:

Wild elephants in Thailand stumbled upon a feast when they found a tapioca delivery truck with a flat tyre.

The driver, Somkuan Sirisat, said he had gone for help to repair the tyre last night – and when he returned, he found five or six elephants surrounding his truck and devouring its contents.

"Five or six?" Is it that hard to get an accurate count of elephants? It's not like you have to squint or anything.

"I was too afraid to go toward the truck," Somkuan told television station ITV.

Maybe if he could have been assured there were only five elephants, Sirisat would've gone in. Because when there's a sixth, they can flank you!

Army rangers were sent to the scene, said one of their officers.

A policeman and the ranger said the elephants found their windfall in the Ta Takiab district of Chachoengsao province, 56 miles east of Bangkok.

ITV showed the elephants milling around the truck, one of them holding in its trunk a tarpaulin it had apparently removed from the truck.

See, in the "Elephants Gone Wild" videos, unlike other video series, the subjects remove the tops of vehicles instead of their own tops.

The elephants left the scene after eating their fill.

The footage showed signs in the area warning drivers to "beware of wild elephants foraging on the road at night".

Yet another reason to be proud of being an American, my friends. In this country we've practically eliminated elephant muggings. Granted, we've done it by rounding all the elephants up into internment camps (i.e. zoos), but desperate times call for desperate measures. I mean, Think Of The Children.