Feeling a little horny?

A friend of mine emailed this series of photos entitled "Road Rage" to me. Being an elephant fanatic, I did a little research, and in less than 5 minutes discovered the background of this story which is funnier than the captioned photos someone in cyberspace turned into a humorous email chain.

The emailed photos, in order, with accompanying text below:

These photos are from Thursday, Feb. 17 by someone from Centurion in Pilanesberg game reserve, South Africa. The guy in the silver Volkswagen (second photo) was trying to get past the elephant.

Road rage, it affects us all.


So...after taking a moment to laugh, I discovered this news article describing the incident with quotes from the terrified couple, John Somers and friend Carina Lowers, trapped inside the flipped car. For starters, the incident occurred on Mr. Somer's 66th birthday -- priceless -- but this poor man was not attempting to pass the elephant. The car was actually stationary when the bull elephant -- named Amarula -- approached.

Are you ready for this?

Amarula was in musth when he either 1) mistook the silver VW Passat for a female elephant or 2) recognized the car was NOT AN ELEPHANT and decided to use it to relieve his sexual frustration anyway.

What's the moral of this story?

Don't fuck with a horny elephant.