WHAT A STORY !!!!!

Some times there are stories that are almost impossible to believe.  This is one of them.

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.

On a hike through the bush, he came across

a young bull elephant standing with one leg

raised in the air. The elephant seemed

distressed, so Peter approached it very

carefully.

He got down on one knee, inspected the

elephants foot, and found a large piece of

wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully

and as gently as he could, Peter worked the

wood out with his knife, after which the

elephant gingerly put down its foot.

The elephant turned to face the man, and

with a rather curious look on its face, stared

at him for several tense moments. Peter

stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but

being trampled. Eventually the elephant

trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of

that day. Twenty years later, Peter was walking

through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son.

As they approached the elephant enclosure, one

of the creatures turned and walked over to near

where Peter and his son Cameron were standing.

The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its

front foot off the ground, then put it down. The

elephant did that several times then trumpeted

loudly, all the while staring at the

man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter

could not help wondering if this was the same

elephant. Peter 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. The elephant

trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of

Peter legs and slammed him against the railing,

killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

via email from my buddy Dimly Lit who loves a bad joke as much as I do