How to go out... if you're an elephant

lippy · #1 10-26-2007, 06:46 AM

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ephants23.html

VickreyAuction · #2 10-26-2007, 03:35 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm

only in india

Bostaevski · #3 10-26-2007, 04:06 PM

omg the man died fighting off monkeys... lucky bastard

schaef · #4 10-26-2007, 04:51 PM

"One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques."

Hmmmm....

RiverFenix · #5 10-26-2007, 05:06 PM

Those two links are amazing. Had me laughing so hard.

Thug Bubbles · #6 10-26-2007, 05:42 PM

"increasing man-elephant conflict"

I am permanently incorporating that phrase into my daily vocabulary. And this:

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SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

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Is the greatest opening sentence of any news article I have ever read.

private joker · #7 10-26-2007, 06:00 PM

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And this:

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SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

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Is the greatest opening sentence of any news article I have ever read.

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You really prefer that to:

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Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote northeast, a wildlife official said today.

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Funny, I was thinking THAT was the greatest opening line ever.

fiskebent · #8 10-27-2007, 05:27 AM

I want a pack of trained attack monkeys. How cool would that be?

"Release the monkeys!"

Boise123 · #9 10-27-2007, 04:31 PM

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And this:

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SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

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Is the greatest opening sentence of any news article I have ever read.

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You really prefer that to:

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Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote northeast, a wildlife official said today.

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Funny, I was thinking THAT was the greatest opening line ever.

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lol [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

RiverFenix · #10 11-13-2007, 05:34 PM

Making the situation even funnier