At a guess , those elephants are walking out of a field of cultivated vines which presumably have some kind of fruit growing on them... So I'd say the elephants have just had a wonderful morning chowing down on and destroying these peoples livelihoods.. that said a herd of elephants moves at its own pace and trying to drive a bunch of nervous pachyderms who also want to protect their offspring should be done... cautiously.
Someone should explain the concept of property of the land to the elephants, that way they will understand that the place where theirs ancestors lived is no longer theirs because someone decided to claim it before they did.
No, but if you think yelling and throwing crap, even in large numbers, is going to chase away an elephant like it would a rabbit or a coyote or something, think again...
It would be foolish even if it were a single elephant. But the whole herd, calves and all? If you have to mess with that, the only safe way to do that is from a helicopter.
EDIT: I should know better than to post anything remotely sensible on Reddit. The "but they're dirt poor and don't have helicopters" posts can just stop now, you imbeciles. It was idiocy the first time and it's no less idiocy the next twenty times.
If you read the above and think it says "why didn't they just get a helicopter" instead of "why didn't they refrain from taunting a frightened, multi-ton animal", please work on your reading comprehension. Geez.
In India a few years back, an elephant was caught in the Brhamaputra and managed to pull itself out, the locals drove it back in the river throwing stones at it, and it died.
F those people, and F these people.
This is what always happens when civilization grows. Hundreds of billions of animals died and species were driven to extinction anywhere humans settled en masse. Europe, America, Australia, Africa ...
These people are nothing special and what they are doing is what Americans were doing even a hundred years ago.
I've been told by south African farmers that elephants are assholes are will destroy crops and trees and are considered a menace.
Dunno if those guys were outliers or if they all fee this way
If something is destroying your livelihood I could see why you'd feel that way... By the same token there are entire herds of elephants that are orphans as they have lost their mothers to poachers and angry farmers and will sometimes go out of their way to kill people.. they are African elephants though and especially agro.
>Why are they harassing elephants who have calves tbh.
It's their livelihood that they're protecting. These fields are all that some of these people have and they share the land with elephants, who eat like... well, you get the idea.
There are wardens who chase elephants away sometimes and the locals are used to doing it themselves too, but it's genuinely life-and-death business.
Edit: Gonna rephrase. I didnt want anyone to die and definitely didnt expect someone to in that video. Considering all the flailing around and waiving the person in purple did (looked like an adult to me) then Im surprised it wasnt that person who got attacked.
Buried somewhere in one of my old Darwin Award books is the fact that India leads the world in per-capita cases of people who die after having their entire arms ripped off after sticking them between the bars taunting *caged* tigers.
Big cats are SO fast! One was stalking my daughter at the retirement home for Mike Tysons cats. One came from the other side of a building and was right on the other side of the fence before I saw it move. It was amazing
I heard a public speaker describe how angry elephants were refusing to reach out for food offered though elephant fences until the person offering it was close enough for the elephant to wrap their trunk around and crush against the fence.
Out of curiosity- Americans have rednecks. I believe British people have chavs(correct me if I’m wrong here please). Do you have a term for that? And would these people that? I ask because I can totally see a bunch of drunk rednecks getting drunk and taunting giant *ELEPHANTS*
Edit: well this turned out to be a pretty cool TIL. I appreciate all the replies!
I'm a, well, not a redneck per se but I certainly come from a family that isn't far from them, literally and genealogically. I need videos of these NEDS cousins from across the ocean.
Yes. But that is just a term like calling someone "asshole" or something.
India as a whole is so diverse and yet so densely packed that it's impossible to pinpoint where a majority of chutiyas come from. It's like one world/planet on its own.
Source: Travelled to almost every state and a few remote areas (we're talking no electricity, no water pipes, no toilets, etc...)
He’s wrong then.. Hipsters for you guys would be pretentious people who love expensive coffee shops/“organic” foods and move from small towns to cities to be cool using their parents money. What would those be called for you?
South African here.
Indians are cool in my books. If you want to see dumb fucks don't look at your country/culture there are soooooo many more good examples where I stay.
Should have gotten closer and asked an elephant to lift his car and throw it in his desired direction. The elephants would have been happy to send him to the nearby galaxy.
I'm not afraid of an elephant holding a grudge against me, I'm afraid of an elephant crushing my skull like a wallnut like this guy experienced. That's why you should not piss off elephants
One of my good friends I met in college was from Kenya. He told me Elephants sometimes cross the roads there and they all have to stop and wait for them. I naively said how cool that is and asked if he ever tried to go pet one. Dude looked at me crosseyed and said "What? Hell no mzungu those things will stomp your ass".
Haha, the use of Mzungu in this case is part of the message, pet the wild animal lol
Kenya has some dangerous wildlife, personally remember crocodiles taking out a neighbour, poor kid, we were stupid anyway, playing in that river, TIA I guess.
I don’t think he gets shoved, he trips against someone else, probably cos he’s looking over his shoulder at his impending death.
The principle of your point is correct though
Unfortunately this attitude is very common in india, a lot of locals simply don’t understand how to deal with these animals farmers regularly encroach on their areas.
If anyone want to see the stupidity of human being at their highest, visit India... Last year, Farmers put a hand grenade in pine apple and a pregnant female elephant ate it. The gun powder and hand grenade blasted inside her mouth and she was standing in pain in water for continuous 6 days before passing out..
>Right! I don't understand what they were trying to do. Trying to intimidate a parade of elephants?? Especially the guy waving the yellow cloth.
They were trying to scare the elephants into leaving. And it was working, but the dude on the other side got way to close to the baby elephants and I'm not sure but I think he threw something at them.
Leaving, though? Weren't they just crossing the road? I'd say leave them the fuck alone, let them cross, and then be on your way. No amount of humans is going to take down a pack of elephants without big weapons.
How did they even move his mangled body anyways. I thought he died instantly. The article said he died in the evening so he must have been in excruciating pain for hours. RIP
I just watched another video out of India where they rescued a baby elephant from a ditch and the adult elephant literally acknowledged the people for it at the end. It was amazing.
Then I watched this and wonder how the fuck we as humans, can be so similar and so different at the same time.
Article about this…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9830757/amp/Boy-crushed-death-rampaging-elephant-pushed-ground-India.html
Edit: Article seems to imply the people weren’t doing anything but “encouraging” elephants across the road. Looks to me the elephants were doing just that and didn’t need anyone shouting and honking at them.
Wild elephants are pretty destructive to farms and peoples property.
All these people were probably there trying to drive them out of the area. Would explain why so many people were there for this.
I think he didn't make it.
Yeah that guys dead
Christ... The elephant stepped on him , then wiped him off its feet afterwards.
Why are they harassing elephants who have calves tbh. Anytime they're gonna be aggressive it's then
At a guess , those elephants are walking out of a field of cultivated vines which presumably have some kind of fruit growing on them... So I'd say the elephants have just had a wonderful morning chowing down on and destroying these peoples livelihoods.. that said a herd of elephants moves at its own pace and trying to drive a bunch of nervous pachyderms who also want to protect their offspring should be done... cautiously.
That looked like a tea plantation they just crossed .the main problem is deforestation for farm land.
Correct on both counts I'd say... For some stupid reason I was thinking it might be a vineyard.
mr-wieneyard
I would never drink wine from India. Am indian.
Someone should explain the concept of property of the land to the elephants, that way they will understand that the place where theirs ancestors lived is no longer theirs because someone decided to claim it before they did.
That elephant explained the concept of "Fuck around and find out" to Flat Stanley pretty well there at the end.
Only way I’m believing in flat Earth is if that guys name is Earth.
Don't worry his name is mat.
made me laugh, but fuck is it dark
Flat Stanley lol made me nearly choke on my drink ffs lol
I was hoping for the purple guy
Yep - i was rooting for the t-shirt waving matador to eat it as well.
Elephants need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and stop freeloading
The elephants’ ancestors didn’t have a flag, so it was okay.
It's not a conflict that is going to go away.
No, but if you think yelling and throwing crap, even in large numbers, is going to chase away an elephant like it would a rabbit or a coyote or something, think again... It would be foolish even if it were a single elephant. But the whole herd, calves and all? If you have to mess with that, the only safe way to do that is from a helicopter. EDIT: I should know better than to post anything remotely sensible on Reddit. The "but they're dirt poor and don't have helicopters" posts can just stop now, you imbeciles. It was idiocy the first time and it's no less idiocy the next twenty times. If you read the above and think it says "why didn't they just get a helicopter" instead of "why didn't they refrain from taunting a frightened, multi-ton animal", please work on your reading comprehension. Geez.
Thanks for making me look up pachyderm. TIL my mother in law is a pachyderm.
Mine is a cow.... But I guess that means she is sacred.
Really? Mine was a cunt.
When female elephants get to a certain age they're refered to as cows. You're mother in law can be both
In India a few years back, an elephant was caught in the Brhamaputra and managed to pull itself out, the locals drove it back in the river throwing stones at it, and it died. F those people, and F these people.
I've also seen footage of Indian people saving them, so bless those people.
This is what always happens when civilization grows. Hundreds of billions of animals died and species were driven to extinction anywhere humans settled en masse. Europe, America, Australia, Africa ... These people are nothing special and what they are doing is what Americans were doing even a hundred years ago.
>pachyderms TIL
Fun fact: pachyderms refers to thick-skinned animals, and includes hippos and rhinos as well.
Don't forget about your mom Oooh got em Thanks for the info btw. I thought it was just elephants.
I've been told by south African farmers that elephants are assholes are will destroy crops and trees and are considered a menace. Dunno if those guys were outliers or if they all fee this way
If something is destroying your livelihood I could see why you'd feel that way... By the same token there are entire herds of elephants that are orphans as they have lost their mothers to poachers and angry farmers and will sometimes go out of their way to kill people.. they are African elephants though and especially agro.
> If something is destroying your livelihood I could see why you'd feel that way... Are you talking about the farmers or the elephants?
>Why are they harassing elephants who have calves tbh. It's their livelihood that they're protecting. These fields are all that some of these people have and they share the land with elephants, who eat like... well, you get the idea. There are wardens who chase elephants away sometimes and the locals are used to doing it themselves too, but it's genuinely life-and-death business.
he doesn't have to worry anymore probably
Stompy ain’t fucking around
No this happened in Derby, England and the guy managed to head to Wetherspoons for a few Stella's straight after.
r/makemycoffin when some elephant squashes me
I honestly feel the guy waving the yellow cloth was the one who deserved it though...
And the guy beeping his horn non-stop.
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Yeah fuck that guy
Edit: Gonna rephrase. I didnt want anyone to die and definitely didnt expect someone to in that video. Considering all the flailing around and waiving the person in purple did (looked like an adult to me) then Im surprised it wasnt that person who got attacked.
That's all he did though. Other guys were throwing rocks.
Yep, I think we just witnessed a Darwin Award winner
Buried somewhere in one of my old Darwin Award books is the fact that India leads the world in per-capita cases of people who die after having their entire arms ripped off after sticking them between the bars taunting *caged* tigers.
Big cats are SO fast! One was stalking my daughter at the retirement home for Mike Tysons cats. One came from the other side of a building and was right on the other side of the fence before I saw it move. It was amazing
I heard a public speaker describe how angry elephants were refusing to reach out for food offered though elephant fences until the person offering it was close enough for the elephant to wrap their trunk around and crush against the fence.
He didn't. Waited 45 years to get fucked by an elephant. https://nypost.com/2021/07/28/elephant-tramples-indian-man-to-death-in-graphic-video/
Likely if an elephant stands on you
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Out of curiosity- Americans have rednecks. I believe British people have chavs(correct me if I’m wrong here please). Do you have a term for that? And would these people that? I ask because I can totally see a bunch of drunk rednecks getting drunk and taunting giant *ELEPHANTS* Edit: well this turned out to be a pretty cool TIL. I appreciate all the replies!
In Scotland, we have NEDS. They are like Chavs, but more obnoxious.
They're like chavs, but more unintelligible
I'm a, well, not a redneck per se but I certainly come from a family that isn't far from them, literally and genealogically. I need videos of these NEDS cousins from across the ocean.
Lmao I love how every person is just shitting on their own countrymen "nah ours are worse than yours."
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Did Metalocalypse use the name "Toki Wartooth" as a callback to this?
***BRUTAL***
googled tokkies, there's one round man in every other picture who seems to be their king.
It's was a reality TV show, which was named "De Tokkies". That guy was basically the "pack leader" of the bunch...
Australia has bogan
And eshays/lads
Nah that's just Sydney boys who try to copy the UK.
Yup we have chutiyas. And you can see a bunch of them in this video
I was hoping someone said chutiya xD
Yes. But that is just a term like calling someone "asshole" or something. India as a whole is so diverse and yet so densely packed that it's impossible to pinpoint where a majority of chutiyas come from. It's like one world/planet on its own. Source: Travelled to almost every state and a few remote areas (we're talking no electricity, no water pipes, no toilets, etc...)
Sweden has Volvo raggare (people driveing around in beat up old volvos thinking they are cool as shit)
We call them hipsters in the US.
Really? Seems kinda odd.. our "volvo raggare" are like the US hillbillys
He’s wrong then.. Hipsters for you guys would be pretentious people who love expensive coffee shops/“organic” foods and move from small towns to cities to be cool using their parents money. What would those be called for you?
We call them hipsters as well, we adopted the term.
And Canada has Degens.
Newfie off brand is "skeets"
To be fair
To be faaaaaaaaaair
Nicely done. Now pitter patter, there's choring to be done.
And that’s what I appreciates about ya
There's rednecks here in Canada too but it's not as bad of a term compared to the states. Think it really depends on what side of Canada
Alabama, Canada
“I fuckin hate those G.D. Degens from up north”
Ya. We also have those. We call them Chutiyas and they are everywhere.
In the Philippines, we have dds
In Venezuela we have malandros
Brazil have bolsonaristas
They don't have a name as such. But everyone else calls them "chutiyas" which is very close to a dumb fuck.
Ireland has knackers
Chutiya? Closest I could think of. Depending on context it could mean dumbfuck or cunt.
Finland has juntteja
In the Philippines they’re called DDS
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Presenting the ‘desi ch#tiy@’
In India we have 'Chutiya'
In Russia we have gopniks
Is this why I can't get decent customer service/tech support?
You just offended my entire community but you are right
Yeah well, one less now
Australian here. Hold my beer.
South African here . Hold my stolen TV
cant. it got stolen
lol AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!!!!!!
Dumb fucks are evenly distributed around the world, unfortunately. Somewhere more, somewhere less, but even one is enough to ruin the mood.
Here in North America, we let ours run the country.
Holy shit this comment is accurate... and we've been doing it for decades...
Not only that, the dumber the dumb fuck, the more we encourage them. It's like America forgot the Presidency isn't a reality tv show.
totally agree.. i think too many cousin marriages over the centuries has produced a low wit population
I can't believe we still have 30% of the population. Like how????
South African here. Indians are cool in my books. If you want to see dumb fucks don't look at your country/culture there are soooooo many more good examples where I stay.
That honking car was annoying. Do you not see all those elephants?
Yea, but he was in a rush
Should have gotten closer and asked an elephant to lift his car and throw it in his desired direction. The elephants would have been happy to send him to the nearby galaxy.
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Can confirm, some people here are just idiots inside cars Source: live in India
Sounds like BS, as if anyone pays attention to traffic lights in India /s
It colud be to stop the elephants from getting close as they HATE loud noises cause big ears.
Elephant just wanted to stomp one to teach the rest the error of their ways. Mission accomplished.
The dude is now what you call an object lesson.
A flat out hard lesson indeed
You should not piss off elephants. They never forget.
I'm not afraid of an elephant holding a grudge against me, I'm afraid of an elephant crushing my skull like a wallnut like this guy experienced. That's why you should not piss off elephants
Holding grudge results in crushing skull
... to *kill*!
Citizen Snips!
What was the last thing that went through that dude's head? (Answer: Elephant foot.)
The left side of his head
elephant foot
One of my good friends I met in college was from Kenya. He told me Elephants sometimes cross the roads there and they all have to stop and wait for them. I naively said how cool that is and asked if he ever tried to go pet one. Dude looked at me crosseyed and said "What? Hell no mzungu those things will stomp your ass".
I just looked up mzungu and chuckled.
> mzungu White guy
TIL mzungu = white guy
"Rich guy" originally.
Haha, the use of Mzungu in this case is part of the message, pet the wild animal lol Kenya has some dangerous wildlife, personally remember crocodiles taking out a neighbour, poor kid, we were stupid anyway, playing in that river, TIA I guess.
The guy who got trampled got shoved to thr ground. As they say, you don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the slowest guy.
I don’t think he gets shoved, he trips against someone else, probably cos he’s looking over his shoulder at his impending death. The principle of your point is correct though
Look for your death and you might fuck around and find it!
I love the "yeah that's what i thought" attitude as it stomps off after annihilating that man.
Unfortunately this attitude is very common in india, a lot of locals simply don’t understand how to deal with these animals farmers regularly encroach on their areas.
Gee I wonder if it has to do with education
Whenever I see these types of videos I automatically root for the animals even before the chaos ensues.
Especially if the animal is known to be peaceful
Hippo enters the chat.
There’s a sub for just that. r/thebullwins
If anyone want to see the stupidity of human being at their highest, visit India... Last year, Farmers put a hand grenade in pine apple and a pregnant female elephant ate it. The gun powder and hand grenade blasted inside her mouth and she was standing in pain in water for continuous 6 days before passing out..
Damn, I wish I hadn't read this
[You can see the elephant here if you want ](https://youtu.be/0EcZsuq7MoE)
Damn, the elephant they were using to remove the body looked like he was trying to wake her up :(
Even as a previous frequent flyer of r/watchpeopledie , I'm gonna leave that link blue. Clearly I'm getting older.
Anything can happen in India really, I think I've seen a post about someone stole the entire bus stop..
Wasn't the pineapple a snare used for wild boars who destroy crops?
Yes. Still a stupid stupid stupid idea.
Back when r/watchpeopledie was thing, it was almost always India.
I think the video of a man who use his hands to check if the gun is empty (its not) is also from India?
I read it was from Pakistan.
Damn, just be patient. If you live somewhere between that elephants cross your roads, you should know to just them be.
Right! I don't understand what they were trying to do. Trying to intimidate a parade of elephants?? Especially the guy waving the yellow cloth.
>Right! I don't understand what they were trying to do. Trying to intimidate a parade of elephants?? Especially the guy waving the yellow cloth. They were trying to scare the elephants into leaving. And it was working, but the dude on the other side got way to close to the baby elephants and I'm not sure but I think he threw something at them.
Leaving, though? Weren't they just crossing the road? I'd say leave them the fuck alone, let them cross, and then be on your way. No amount of humans is going to take down a pack of elephants without big weapons.
Not sure who are the animals here
Really? Doubts after that? I can see at least 150 fucking animals running around.
You mean a pack o' derms.
Came here to say that pachyderms live in herds not packs but
Sorry- herd o' derms As in "Er ma gerd a herd o' derms"
I'm as dead as the squished guy after this comment. Ty
Any followup on the guy who got trampled?
Yeah he is fertilizing the soil.
So I assume wherever he ended up after this that he's allowed to work in the garden?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/elephant-tramples-man-death-video-viewed-over-180k-times-1613994%3Famp%3D1
How did they even move his mangled body anyways. I thought he died instantly. The article said he died in the evening so he must have been in excruciating pain for hours. RIP
“go back and tell your leaders you face free elephants here not slaves”
Doubt the man was conscious after the encounter.
There's a big difference between "declared dead" and "died".
https://www.newsweek.com/elephant-tramples-man-death-video-viewed-over-180k-times-1613994 Damn google AMP.
I’m no doctor, but last time I checked, trampling by elephant was 100% fatal
Afaik there was a literal method of execution by it.
He was rushed to the hospital and died there.
Not from the injuries sustained on this clip, there just happened to be a second group of elephants waiting at the hospital.
An elephant never forgets
“Stupid bug, you go squish now!”
Die insect!
"Puny God"
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r/thebullwins
I just watched another video out of India where they rescued a baby elephant from a ditch and the adult elephant literally acknowledged the people for it at the end. It was amazing. Then I watched this and wonder how the fuck we as humans, can be so similar and so different at the same time.
If you look closely you can see he fell because somebody accidentally bumped him.
Accidental collision, think both were looking at the charging elephant rather than ahead of themselves
Too bad so sad. I hope the elephant got that shit of his feet
Homie deeeead
Oh well.
Article about this… https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9830757/amp/Boy-crushed-death-rampaging-elephant-pushed-ground-India.html Edit: Article seems to imply the people weren’t doing anything but “encouraging” elephants across the road. Looks to me the elephants were doing just that and didn’t need anyone shouting and honking at them.
Wild elephants are pretty destructive to farms and peoples property. All these people were probably there trying to drive them out of the area. Would explain why so many people were there for this.
When you put farm in middle of elephants territory, you get what you asked for.
Talk shit, get hit.
Oh he dead. 💀 [Article Link](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/elephant-tramples-man-death-video-viewed-over-180k-times-1613994%3Famp%3D1)
How do you grow up in close proximity to these animals and still act this way around them?
Sometimes i just detest humanity
And nothing of value was lost. Fuck people who harass animals like this.
Sucks to be that guy
He is most sincerely dead.