Asks Anti-Citizen-One after spotting this tale of woe:
A 47-year-old telecommunications engineer died on Tuesday night in a freak accident when his car rammed an elephant at Nkunga forest on the Meru-Nanyuki road. Mr Dalton Mwachenga, who was travelling from Uganda, hit the elephant that then fell on his car...
Highway officers, who were manning a roadblock near the forest, rushed to the scene but could not rescue the man as there was a herd of about 50 elephants hovering around the scene...
Meanwhile, another car overturned as its driver evaded an elephant crossing the road...
What is puzzling is that people are complaining about the lack of road signs warning drivers that they are entering a forest. Wouldn't the fact that there are tall trees on each side of the road be a bit of a clue?
Big Green Bills
28 minutes ago
6 comments:
Is it like running over a pheasant? You don't get to keep the ivory, but the guy in the car behind you does..? ;)
JM, probably. In which case, drive around behind Dearieme and you'd want for nothing.
That elephants have evidently added levitation to their list of aggressive accomplishments does little to inspire confidence.
For years I've taken my grandfather's advice and occasionally sprinkled sand across the top of our driveway to keep elephants out. Always worked, I thought; never yet saw an elephant in the garden. But now I find they can hover...... damn.
FT, that trick with sprinkling sand never worked, it's just that people never noticed that elephants had been in their garden because, being able to levitate, they left no footprints.
Durrrr........ you could be right at that. Sneaky sods.
...and nobody has yet noted it was a trunk road?
tusk tusk...
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