Laurence J. Peter - "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
In 1986, Peter Davies 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 Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee,
inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply
embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the
wood out with his 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. Peter stood frozen,
thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant
trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that
elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his
teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the
creatures turned and walked over to
near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull
elephant stared at Peter, 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, Peter could not help wondering if
this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over
the 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 Peter legs and slammed him against the
railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same elephant.
This is for everyone who sends me those heart-warming bullcrap stories.
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