Dangerous Animal Incidents

[nan]

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[PRWIN]

From the last attack



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Speeding????????

[nan]

. on the first one... is a tusk

[mouseinthehouse]

It does look a lot like the elephant landed on top of the car I had one of my horses get out on the road and ran side on into a car and rolled over the bonnet and windscreen. It looked like a lesser version of the above. But I am slapping myself on the wrist for speculating (SP have indoctrinated me -O ) By the way my horse was OK.

[Richprins]

The first one is a verified ellie attack near Byamiti, nan! Quite a difference!

[Flutterby]

Can't find the pics , Flutts?

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/co ... cle-in-KNP

Look here RP:

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/co ... se-tourist

[PRWIN]

From Beeld

http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/O ... e-20130416

[Richprins]

It does look a lot like the elephant landed on top of the car I had one of my horses get out on the road and ran side on into a car and rolled over the bonnet and windscreen. It looked like a lesser version of the above. But I am slapping myself on the wrist for speculating (SP have indoctrinated me -O ) By the way my horse was OK.

That is just giving your opinion, mith!

Look, here is some speculating: The visitors were obviously speeding and hit the elephant. SP is paranoid about bad press, and wouldn't dream of saying anything bad about anything or anyone remotely connected to our new imperial masters, China!


Now THAT is speculating!

[Richprins]

Can't find the pics , Flutts?

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/co ... cle-in-KNP

Look here RP:

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/co ... se-tourist

Thanks, Flutts!

[Richprins]

Onder olifantpote

So lyk die wrak van ’n Poolse toeris se motor nadat ’n olifantbul in die Krugerwildtuin sy woede gisteroggend daarop uitgehaal het.

Buks Viljoen
’n Poolse toeris is gister ernstig beseer toe ’n verwoede olifantbul in die noorde van die Krugerwildtuin verskeie kere op sy Hyundai-motor getrap en dit omgeslaan het.

Die dier het daarna die bos in verdwyn.

Die 49-jarige man, wat in China werk, en sy Chinese vriendin (29), glo ’n student van Pretoria, is op die H1-7 tussen Shingwedzi en Punda Maria aangeval.

Hulle het in Punda Maria oornag en was op pad na Mopani.

Die aanval het kort ná 06:30 naby die Babalala-piekniekplek sowat 40 km van Punda Maria en net enkele meters van die afdraai na die Vlakteplaas-veldwagter se huis gebeur.

Wildtuinpersoneellede wat op pad werk toe was, het op die wrak afgekom waar dit op sy dak langs die pad gelê het.

Verskeie van die Poolse man se ribbe is gebreek en hy het ook inwendige beserings opgedoen.

Hy was nog in die voertuig se wrak vasgepen toe hulp opgedaag het.

Die vrou is uit die motor geslinger. Sy het toe glo na die motor teruggekruip en langs die wrak geskuil. Sy het net geringe beserings opgedoen.

Die vrou het vertel hulle het die olifant ’n ent van hulle af in die veld sien wei.

Toe die dier skielik storm, het hulle die motor afgeskakel in die hoop dat hy sou ophou storm as dit stil is.

Tog het hy voortgestorm. Voordat hulle die motor aan die gang kon kry, was die dier bo-op die motor.

’n Helikopter van die wildtuin is van Skukuza ontbied om die beseerde Pool op te pik. Hy is na ’n hospitaal in Phalaborwa geneem. Die vrou is later in dieselfde hospitaal opgeneem.

Hulle sou vandeesweek deur die wildtuin toer en Sondag terugkeer Pretoria toe.

William Mabasa, woordvoerder van die wildtuin, het gesê hulle is in die duister oor hoekom die alleen­loperbul die motor aangeval het.

Daar is na die dier gesoek, maar dit is baie moeilik om die spesifieke olifant te identifiseer, het Mabasa gesê.

Mabasa het toeriste gemaan om altyd ’n veilige afstand van olifante te handhaaf.

“Wilde diere is gevaarlik en hul gedrag baie onvoorspelbaar. Mense besef nie aldag hoe vinnig so ’n groot dier soos ’n olifant kan beweeg nie.”

Marinda Bouwer, bestuurder van die Clinix Phalaborwa- private hospitaal, het gesê die paartjie se toestand is bestendig.

A 49-year-old Polish tourist who works in China, and his Chinese ladyfriend, apparently a student from Pretoria, were attacked by an elephant which repeatedly stomped on the Hyundai and rolled it over. Kruger staff found the vehicle on its roof next to the road. The man was still trapped in the car, while the woman was flung from the wreck and said she crawled back to the shelter of the wreck in terror once the ellie had left.

They had stopped to watch the ellie, and when it charged switched off the engine hoping it would calm down.

His condition is stable while she is slightly injured. Kruger's chopper took him to Phalaborwa.