Child gets body slammed by elephant - GIF

[Altair]

Child gets body slammed by elephant.




Previously:

Elephant flips pickup truck - GIF
Elephant stopping trucks for snacks - GIF
Elephant uses stick to scratch between toes - GIF
Elephant bypassing electric fence - GIF
Giving water to an injured elephant - GIF

[hemmjo]

That could have turned our really badly.

When I was a kid. Little, do not recall the age, maybe 5-7 range. We went to the zoo. They had a machine where you could by peanuts in the shell to give to the elephants. This was back in the 50's when there was not all the safety restrictions etc. I was giving elephant peanuts one at a time. Hold one out, he (maybe it was a she, I did not check) would grip it with the tip of his trunk, put it in his mouth, then reach back for another. I still had a few in my hand, and for some reason I closed my hand. Not sure what either of us was thinking, but he did not like when I closed my hand. He quickly gripped my wrist with his trunk. Not hard, did not hurt. But my dad responded by hitting the trunk. By that time I had opened my hand just from the surprise of being held by an elephant. The peanuts fell out on the ground. The elephant let go, but did not like my dad hitting him. He pushed my dad back, kind of like you or me swatting a flea. Then blew elephant snot all over my dads shirt. Then began picking up the spilled peanuts. We had so many laughs about that over the years.

Just FYI, DON'T EVER get an elephant to blow is nose on your shirt. Elephant snot REALLY STINKS. Especially on a hot day.

[Jon]

I see your elephant body slam and raise you a horse backwards body slam:

[mr mikey]

When I was about 16 a group of us went horseback riding, the horse I was on stopped when we were out of sight of the barn, it bucked a little, was trying to bite me, I got off and walked back to the barn. The guy was yelling at me for not knowing how to control the horse. When he drove me back he grabbed the reins and punched that horse in the nose. There now get back on and don't do that again. That horse ran full speed the whole course, I couldn't stop him. I felt like the Lone Ranger trying to catch a bad guy. I passed the group a couple of times. He finally slowed down when it was time for the whole group to head back to the barn. I told my friends thats enough for me. I'll stick to working on cars. LOL. I sure hope that lady is ok.

[IntheGroove]

It looks like she just avoided the Christopher Reeve...

[Frank S]

It looks like she just avoided the Christopher Reeve...

Or maybe not, we didn't see her get up afterwards. A horse is a lot of animal to have fall on any part of your body

[stevechard_csi]

Or maybe not, we didn't see her get up afterwards. A horse is a lot of animal to have fall on any part of your body

A horse that rears over backwards, especially with a saddle, often breaks its back at the peak of the withers. Anyway, the animal is very dangerous and should never be ridden! Time to send it to the slaughter house.

[drivermark]

It looks like she just avoided the Christopher Reeve...

I thought he fell off doing a steeplechase type event and landed on his head. That's the way I heard it, but then again that was a while ago and I could just be full of "it".

[Frank S]

I thought he fell off doing a steeplechase type event and landed on his head. That's the way I heard it, but then again that was a while ago and I could just be full of "it".

I think you are correct, when inthegroove commented, he was probably refereeing to her not landing on her head, My comment was aimed towards the weight of the horse crushing her and possibly breaking her back and probably some ribs as well, meaning she could have sustained permanent injuries.
stevechard_csi has a point that horse is a danger to himself and anyone who attempts ridding him.

[Hans Pearson]

It looks like she just avoided the Christopher Reeve...

Looking at the horse footage very slowly, (after this silly lady pulled too tightly on the reigns and held the horse's head too high) she slipped out of the saddle to the left and appears to have had her right leg injured or at least trapped.