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Sometimes a helmet just isn't enough
As the title says, sometimes a helmet isn't sufficient protection. https://bit.ly/2H590Bd -- Cheers, John B. |
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Sometimes a helmet just isn't enough
On 2019-02-27, John B Slocomb wrote:
As the title says, sometimes a helmet isn't sufficient protection. https://bit.ly/2H590Bd Link expands to: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gen...o-yai-elephant (Please don't use URL shorteners unless necessary...) In which cyclist is chased by oliphaunt. "His family later learned the elephant is known as Yoyo and becomes annoyed whenever he encounters tourists' vehicles, but has never hurt anyone." -- Gregory S. Sutter Mostly Harmless http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ |
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:27:17 -0600, Gregory Sutter
wrote: On 2019-02-27, John B Slocomb wrote: As the title says, sometimes a helmet isn't sufficient protection. https://bit.ly/2H590Bd Link expands to: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gen...o-yai-elephant (Please don't use URL shorteners unless necessary...) In which cyclist is chased by oliphaunt. "His family later learned the elephant is known as Yoyo and becomes annoyed whenever he encounters tourists' vehicles, but has never hurt anyone." Given the size and strength of elephants it is best not to irritate them as the usually result is the death of the irritant :-) The comment about tourist vehicles is rather strange as the highway through Khao Yai is used by both tourists and locals. Unless the elephant can tell the difference between locals and tourists... maybe the elephant can read the number plates? -- Cheers, John B. |
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Sometimes a helmet just isn't enough
On 2/28/2019 9:02 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:27:17 -0600, Gregory Sutter wrote: On 2019-02-27, John B Slocomb wrote: As the title says, sometimes a helmet isn't sufficient protection. https://bit.ly/2H590Bd Link expands to: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gen...o-yai-elephant (Please don't use URL shorteners unless necessary...) In which cyclist is chased by oliphaunt. "His family later learned the elephant is known as Yoyo and becomes annoyed whenever he encounters tourists' vehicles, but has never hurt anyone." Given the size and strength of elephants it is best not to irritate them as the usually result is the death of the irritant :-) The comment about tourist vehicles is rather strange as the highway through Khao Yai is used by both tourists and locals. Unless the elephant can tell the difference between locals and tourists... maybe the elephant can read the number plates? Teach 'em once and they never forget. Mark J. |
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Sometimes a helmet just isn't enough
On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 9:28:27 AM UTC-8, Mark J. wrote:
On 2/28/2019 9:02 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:27:17 -0600, Gregory Sutter wrote: On 2019-02-27, John B Slocomb wrote: As the title says, sometimes a helmet isn't sufficient protection. https://bit.ly/2H590Bd Link expands to: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gen...o-yai-elephant (Please don't use URL shorteners unless necessary...) In which cyclist is chased by oliphaunt. "His family later learned the elephant is known as Yoyo and becomes annoyed whenever he encounters tourists' vehicles, but has never hurt anyone." Given the size and strength of elephants it is best not to irritate them as the usually result is the death of the irritant :-) The comment about tourist vehicles is rather strange as the highway through Khao Yai is used by both tourists and locals. Unless the elephant can tell the difference between locals and tourists... maybe the elephant can read the number plates? Teach 'em once and they never forget. Mark J. More likely it's the smell of the occupants. Maybe he dislikes Macy's. Who, after all, sold ivory during his lifetime. |
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Sometimes a helmet just isn't enough
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:12:35 -0800 (PST), Doug Landau
wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 9:28:27 AM UTC-8, Mark J. wrote: On 2/28/2019 9:02 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:27:17 -0600, Gregory Sutter wrote: On 2019-02-27, John B Slocomb wrote: As the title says, sometimes a helmet isn't sufficient protection. https://bit.ly/2H590Bd Link expands to: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gen...o-yai-elephant (Please don't use URL shorteners unless necessary...) In which cyclist is chased by oliphaunt. "His family later learned the elephant is known as Yoyo and becomes annoyed whenever he encounters tourists' vehicles, but has never hurt anyone." Given the size and strength of elephants it is best not to irritate them as the usually result is the death of the irritant :-) The comment about tourist vehicles is rather strange as the highway through Khao Yai is used by both tourists and locals. Unless the elephant can tell the difference between locals and tourists... maybe the elephant can read the number plates? Teach 'em once and they never forget. Mark J. More likely it's the smell of the occupants. Maybe he dislikes Macy's. Who, after all, sold ivory during his lifetime. Perhaps. I've read that an elephant has a better ability to smell than dogs do. Or maybe elephants don't care for the cheap cars that tourists drive and prefer Mercedes' and BM's -- Cheers, John B. |
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