my elephant story .........

magick

I was up in Dublin and got the faint smell of Dog Sh*t and it reminded me of Dublin zoo and my African friend Mikkelle Mebemben ...........

let me tell you his story.......

In 1986, Mikkelle Mebemben was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mikkelle approached it very carefully.

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mikele worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.

The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mikkelle stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted lou dly, turned, and walked away.. Mikele never forgot that elephant or the event s of that day.

Twenty years later, Mikkelle was walking through the Dublin Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mikkelle and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mikkelle, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mikkelle couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mikkelle summoned up his courage, climbed over th e railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mikkelle legs
and slammed him against the railing exploding his head open, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

Pompey Magnus

Pity he didn't have a hammer with him.

Karoma

1977, eh? Old 'joke' is old ...and unfunny.