Trang: Berserk Male Elephant Kills Mahout

**StrontiumDog** · 23-02-2012, 11:29 AM

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Berserk Male Elephant Kills Mahout

UPDATE : 23 February 2012

A male elephant has gone berserk and killed its mahout.

A male elephant has gone berserk and skewered its mahout with its tusks at a rubber plantation field in Trang's Kantang District.

According to Kantang police, the Asia Specific Company hired mahouts to bring four elephants to take down the trees. Two of the elephants, Mongkol and Santi, belonged to 58-year-old Somchok Chuban.

Mongkol was taking down the trees in the morning as usual, with Somchok riding on him, when the animal suddenly went wild and shook the mahout off.

Somchok fell and tried to run away, but Mongkol chased him and attacked him, flinging him with his tusk. Somchok's body hit a rubber tree and he died. Then, Mongkol escaped into the rubber forest.

When police arrived at the scene, Somchok's badly broken body was discovered. Previously, Somchok owned an elephant named Natalie, who killed seven people.

He sold her to the Ayutthaya Elephant Sanctuary, and bought a one-year-old elephant named Mongkol and another named Santi, to do work at the rubber fields instead of Natalie.

Officials from the Kantang Livestock Department and the Wild Elephant Lover Club in Trang Province have gathered to search for Mongkol, as he may attack local residents in the surrounding areas.

**dirtydog** · 23-02-2012, 11:33 AM

Bad luck with elephants or maybe he is / was treating them wrong?

**BobR** · 23-02-2012, 11:56 AM

^ I've read enough stories from tourists about seeing elephants being bloody from being prodded to work that there must be some truth to it. If he abused the elephant, fuck him he got what he deserved, if not RIP.

Much like a working dog, I would suspect an elephant would only want to work for you after it bonded to you, and accepted your affection as a reward, and that could not happen with a rental elephant.

**harrybarracuda** · 23-02-2012, 04:09 PM

Sounds like a rutting tusker. They go berserk when they're horny.

**sabai sabai** · 23-02-2012, 04:53 PM

^ How do you explain Natalie then ?

I'm pretty sure she wasn't in Musth

**sunsetter** · 23-02-2012, 06:45 PM

wow, mustve got stomped well, is that black thing on his upper body the print where it danced on his head?

**Mid** · 23-02-2012, 06:53 PM

not surprising when you see how they break them

**harrybarracuda** · 23-02-2012, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Mid

not surprising when you see how they break them

Ain't that the truth.

**Rural Surin** · 23-02-2012, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Mid

not surprising when you see how they break them

Probably had it coming.
Som nom na.

I can imagine that the authorities would be looking to put it down.

**Kurgen** · 23-02-2012, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Previously, Somchok owned an elephant named Natalie, who killed seven people.

That's one nasty Nelly. You'd have thought after the first couple someone might have noticed a pattern emerging.

**guyinthailand** · 25-02-2012, 02:08 AM

I'm surprised that elephants on amphetamines don't kill their captors more often.

The elephant situation in Thailand and a plea for co-operation - Roger Lohanan

**Smug Farang Bore** · 25-02-2012, 03:13 AM

Yep Im with you lot.

Seen them being badly treated.

Yet if I had to bet on an elephant v mahout chess game....

Mines on the big bugger...!

**crocman** · 25-02-2012, 05:25 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

I can imagine that the authorities would be looking to put it down.

Bloody SEPPOS would hang it. Pulling down trees at the time,maybe it was spooked by an animal/snake.

**sabai sabai** · 25-02-2012, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Kurgen

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Previously, Somchok owned an elephant named Natalie, who killed seven people.

That's one nasty Nelly. You'd have thought after the first couple someone might have noticed a pattern emerging.

I'd imagine those 7 people were in close proximity

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