# Enraged elephant turns maneater **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 19, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207 "2008-02-19T03:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/21 "2008-02-20T19:02:09Z")
The elephant should be wary of the mercury content of crushed Asians, though. Too much gorging on those and it might affect its mental health. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/22 "2008-02-20T19:49:03Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Man eats elephant? - That’s news. [/QUOTE] No, sadly some of the warlords in various African countries regularly slaughter elephants to feed their troops. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/23 "2008-02-20T23:10:59Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] But as the article said, elephants are herbivores. Stomping the guy into goo probably wouldn’t be surprising, but why would he **eat** the guy? [/QUOTE] He was hungry, and the guy was all mushy ? Seriously, while apparently normal elephants don’t eat people, it’s not that odd for herbivores to eat meat, given the chance. It’s just that they usually don’t get a chance at meat they can handle, without the means to hunt and the teeth to tear. Deer have been known to slurp down small, fish stranded by a flash flood, or eat cubes of meat left out by people for them. Also, from the article : > [@](#): > > Contact with humans has had another adverse effect with the beast picking up some of the vices of men. There have instances of elephants coming into villages looking for locally brewed wine, getting drunk, and going on a rampage, with fatal consequences for themselves at times. Actually, elephant interest in alcohol is older than contact with humans, apparently; they’ll go long distances to get at fermenting fruit. They just like alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/24 "2008-02-21T00:05:46Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] The guy he stomped was from China. It was obvious that the elephant had a preference for seafood, especially crushed Asians. I’m so sorry. [/QUOTE] There was a movie about this - **Elephant Wok** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/25 "2008-02-21T00:43:23Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] There was a movie about this - **Elephant Wok** [/QUOTE] In my nice little thread… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/26 "2008-02-21T02:32:39Z")
Hey, **you** started it ! \<— bursts into song… " Ebony and Ivory, stompin’ up some tasty man entrée … " 😃 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/27 "2008-02-21T02:59:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] " Ebony and Ivory, stompin’ up some tasty man entrée … " [/QUOTE] IBID 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/28 "2008-03-08T16:29:58Z")
[QUOTE=Xema] From the OP’s link: “Let’s see - I believe an early harvest Merlot should go nicely with long pig. Somellier - could you start us out with 30 liters of the '97 _Chateau Poopchute_?” [/QUOTE] Why don’t the bartenders simply cut them off? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/29 "2008-03-08T16:37:20Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] Why don’t the bartenders simply cut them off? [/QUOTE] Have you ever tried to tell an angry drunk elephant that he’s had enough? Let alone try to get his keys away from him. People may see happy pink elephants when they’re drunk, but apparently elephants see tasty human shaped trees. I think the obvious answer to this is they need to hire some mice to protect the village. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/30 "2008-03-08T22:05:18Z")
Did anybody else read this … > [@](#): > > said it was not normal for an elephant to eat a man … and think, “The front fell off.”? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/31 "2008-03-14T03:48:19Z")
I have a hard time believing this. I’ve never ever heard of an elephant eating someone. :dubious: I’m wondering whether the elephant stomped the man to death, as elephants are wont to do occasionally, and then some other animal came along and ate him. The story did not say anyone saw the elephant eating him. Some official “confirms” it happened, but what does that mean? Someone told him? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/32 "2008-03-14T03:51:20Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] When an elephant eats a man, that’s not news. Man eats elephant? - That’s news. [/QUOTE] Sadly, I’ve heard of this happening. Not often, fortunately, so I can only assume it was done for the novelty of it and that elephant is not all that tasy. Probably tough as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/33 "2008-03-14T04:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] Hey, **you** started it ! \<— bursts into song… " Ebony and Ivory, stompin’ up some tasty man entrée … " 😃 Cartooniverse [/QUOTE] “She’s a man-eater! Watch out, boys, she’ll chew you up.” ---
**Author:** ![Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/34 "2008-03-14T04:39:06Z")
Do you guys remember the chicken-eating cow? [http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSP25712220070307](http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSP25712220070307) From the article: > [@](#): > > “We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive,” Ghosh told Reuters by phone from Chandpur village. > > The family decided to stand guard at night on Monday at the cow shed which also served as a hen coop, after 48 chickens went missing in a month. > > “Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, sneak to the coop and grab the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat,” Gour Ghosh, his brother, said. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/35 "2008-03-14T18:34:09Z")
That headline is missing something. Shoulda been **Enraged elephant turns maneater: Body found in a trunk.** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/36 "2008-03-14T18:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] That headline is missing something. [/QUOTE] Jumbo Lecter, therapy elephant for Wringling Brothers Circus, fled to the Alabama Elephant Sanctuary, where the tusks are looser. Dammit, I thought I could go somewhere with this… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/37 "2008-03-14T20:18:51Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Jumbo Lecter, therapy elephant for Wringling Brothers Circus, fled to the Alabama Elephant Sanctuary, where the tusks are looser. [/QUOTE] The elephant was last seen trying to get into the pajamas of Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding, the African explorer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/38 "2008-03-14T20:30:01Z")
How an elephant will come up with the next line in this gig, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/39 "2008-03-14T20:35:27Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] How an elephant will come up with the next line in this gig, I’ll never know. [/QUOTE] It’s entirely irrelephant anyway. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207/40 "2008-03-14T20:41:50Z")
And [this](http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/SCENE/803140321/1011/SCENE) is obviously a ploy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enraged-elephant-turns-maneater/438207.md?page=3)