[nilesfunnies] Fw: The Elephant

A man was on holiday in Kenya. While he was walking through the bush,he
came across an elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.

The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot.

There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot. As
carefully and as gently as he could he removed the thorn and the
elephant gingerly put down its foot.

The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern look on its
face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood
frozen-thinking of nothing else but being trampled.

Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.

For years after, the man remembered the elephant and the events of that
day. One day the man was walking through the zoo with his son. As they
approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and
walked over to where they are standing at the rail. It stared at him and
the man couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. After a
while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him.

The man 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.

Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of
the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing,
killing him.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.