Dangerous Elephants

A couple of days ago, on our safari in South Africa, our guide told us a true story involving an elephant, a car and a crash.  A couple was driving through the Kruger National Park on the way to meet the fiancé's family right before their wedding.  The man was South African and the woman was English.  She was driving because it was her first time among these animals and her first time in South Africa.  He wanted to make it special for her.  

As they were driving along they came upon an elephant in the road.  Now these sightings are relatively common so they didn't think much of it.  However, the elephant got pissed off.  He started sort of walk/running toward the car and in the hectic moment the woman accidentally stalled the car.  The elephant rammed into them.  The car flipped over three times and came to a stop off the road.  Now you might be thinking, "What did the people watching do??"  Well, the two cars watching took a picture and a video and drove off because, "The elephant was still there and angry."  In the video they took, you can clearly hear the driver of the car watching say, "Wow we can make a fortune off of Facebook with this!"  What an inconsiderate idiot.  The couple in the car was fine in the long run.  Although the woman had her thigh run through with the elephant's tusk and the man was a bit banged up, they still both had a full recovery and got married!  

Now the point of the story was to explain why when we saw an elephant strolling toward us in the road,  Ruby was screaming, my dad was sweating up a storm, my mom was staring in awe and my guide was taking photos.  Elephants shake their heads when they feel threatened so if you paid attention, you would be able to tell that we weren't in danger.   In the end, the elephant just wanted some leaves and didn't want to mash up our car, thankfully.