11-09-2009, 07:26 PM | #1 |
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"At the very last second I said 'elephant!'"
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SUV sideswipes elephant in Oklahoma Couple OK; giant pachyderm examined for broken tusk, leg injury The Associated Press updated 3:41 p.m. ET, Thurs., Nov . 5, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY - It's not unusual to see a deer or a cow crossing Oklahoma's rural highways. But an elephant? An Oklahoma couple driving home from church nearly slammed into a giant pachyderm that had escaped from a nearby circus late Wednesday. "Didn't have time to hit the brakes. The elephant blended in with the road," driver Bill Carpenter said Thursday. "At the very last second I said 'elephant!'" Carpenter, 68, said he swerved his SUV at the last second and ended up sideswiping the 29-year-old female Asian elephant on the highway in Enid, about 80 miles (128 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City. "So help me Hanna, had I hit that elephant, not swerved, it would have knocked it off its legs, and it would have landed right on top of us," he said. "We'd have been history." The couple, who own a wheat farm, weren't injured. But the 8-foot (2.4-meter) tall, 4,500-pound (2,040-kilogram) elephant was being examined Thursday for a broken tusk and a leg wound. A local veterinarian said it appeared to have escaped major injury. Tusk punches metal The elephant's tusk punched through the side of the Carpenters' SUV, tearing up sheet metal. After sideswiping the elephant, his wife, Deena, flagged some people down and used their cell phone to call police. "The dispatcher didn't believe her: 'You hit a what?'" he said. "I told my wife, I don't know whether to cry or laugh." Enid veterinarian Dr. Dwight Olson said the elephant was hiding in some bushes just off the highway when he arrived shortly after the accident. Handlers from the circus were able to calm it down, and Olson cleaned the leg wound and gave it some pain killer. The elephant was taken Thursday to the veterinary school at Oklahoma State University for a follow-up exam. "I don't believe there's a broken bone, but I don't have an X-ray room big enough to examine it," Olson said. The elephant had escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds earlier Wednesday after something spooked it while it was being loaded into a truck with another elephant, Olson said.
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Hold mah beer!
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Now thats a deuce in the pants if there ever was one.
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11-09-2009, 07:40 PM | #3 |
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11-09-2009, 10:12 PM | #4 | |
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How the fuck do you not notice an elephant until you're practically under it? I can understand thinking its an illusion, but damn..
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11-10-2009, 12:10 AM | #5 | |
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I would have convinced myself that I did some coke and was seeing stuff and that it would be OK to keep going. Very understandable how he missed it
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11-10-2009, 10:17 AM | #6 |
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You know coke doesn't come on little pieces of paper, right?
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11-10-2009, 10:34 AM | #7 | |
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i dont think those people had any idea how much danger they were in. granted it was only 8 feet tall, and so it was likely not a mature elephant, but that fucker could have had tantrum and trampled everything moving. ever seen the elephant escape from the honolulu zoo/circus that frequently surfaces on those "ZOMG animals" shows ?
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