Okay, there’s stupid (voting for a Democrat Socialist), very stupid (waterbombing Danny Trejo)… and then there’s ultra-stupid:
A Spanish tourist reportedly has been “trampled to death” by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures.
If you look up the word “pendejo” in the dictionary, that’ll be his pic you see, right above that of the Trejo Waterbomber.
I remember one time I was driving friends around the Kruger Park when we suddenly came upon a solitary elephant. I stopped, of course, at a distance of about thirty yards.
“Get a little closer!” urged one friend (American, first time in Africa, in fact I think it was the first time she’d ever left New England).
Of course, I refused.
“He’s just standing there,” she said.
“See how his ears are flapping?”
“I know, it’s so cute!”
“He’s warning us off,” I said, and put the minibus into reverse.
Then the elephant took three giant steps towards us, whereupon I tried my very best to break the world speed record for reversing a VW minibus down a dirt road. Even so, he got to within about ten yards of the bus before our acceleration took us clear. Fortunately, the road was straight and after a minute or so the elephant stopped, flapped his ears at us one more time, and exited stage right.
I took the opportunity to turn the bus around, and got the hell out of the area.
One of the others managed to get a single pic of Dumbo, right before he got on the road and decided to shoo us off.
(in the very left-hand bottom of the pic you can see the car windowsill, to give an idea of how close he was, no zoom lens)
Get out of the car? Close to a herd with calves?
I guess the Spanish guy felt that he knew all about elephants, having done the African River ride at DisneyWorld where the elephants frolic charmingly along the river banks, rather than trampling people to death.
Afterthought: phew, if the whole herd got in on the act as the report says, all that remained must have been some bloody mud with bone splinters, with pieces of El Stupido’s iPhone mixed in.