Cameron Bates wroteon November 23, 2008 at 9:48pm
This is a challenge to all members of this forum: Please try and beat this ‘news’ story. I bet you can’t.
A herd of wild elephants coming in tens of them, have been obtruding Balairaja subdistrict in Riau since weekend, and the number increased to more than forty as of Monday.
The elephants' rush caused local residents to remain nervous and uneasy for those wild animals, honking their trunks while intruding into the village, have damaged four resident houses, eaten plants at the community gardens and undoubtedly scared of the people around.
"I saw them with my naked eyes, at least there were forty of these mammals with long prehensile trunks really vandalizing our civilization," a Balairaja residents muttered.
Local authorities were reported to not have taken any necessary actions regarding this elephants flee and rather leaving it up to the villagers.
At least seven families were forced to move out of the region due this perturbation, including those whose house crunched by that stampede of large tife-toed animals of the Elephantidae family.
"We feel terrorized by these grayish whoppers, particularly during the night. As people sleep these big ivory monsters wake us up,"said Freddy Simbolon, a Balairaja resident as reported by Antara.
Simbolon has moved his wife and children leaving the villlage.
He and some other adult male inhabitants remained, gearing up for lest the unexpected comeback of the elephants, at anytime.
Another villager whose house was completely smashed by a mass invasion of these four-legged jumbos with tusks claimed that his family were already evacuated.
"Look at my house! It's gone. These animals have eaten anything including my house," he angered.
"Awhile ago, two big elephants collapsed my house, and they just disappeared behind the bush and came back to gluttonously eat the major of rice fields in the subdistrict," Simbolon raised his voice raggedly.
A herd of wild elephants coming in tens of them, have been obtruding Balairaja subdistrict in Riau since weekend, and the number increased to more than forty as of Monday.
The elephants' rush caused local residents to remain nervous and uneasy for those wild animals, honking their trunks while intruding into the village, have damaged four resident houses, eaten plants at the community gardens and undoubtedly scared of the people around.
"I saw them with my naked eyes, at least there were forty of these mammals with long prehensile trunks really vandalizing our civilization," a Balairaja residents muttered.
Local authorities were reported to not have taken any necessary actions regarding this elephants flee and rather leaving it up to the villagers.
At least seven families were forced to move out of the region due this perturbation, including those whose house crunched by that stampede of large tife-toed animals of the Elephantidae family.
"We feel terrorized by these grayish whoppers, particularly during the night. As people sleep these big ivory monsters wake us up,"said Freddy Simbolon, a Balairaja resident as reported by Antara.
Simbolon has moved his wife and children leaving the villlage.
He and some other adult male inhabitants remained, gearing up for lest the unexpected comeback of the elephants, at anytime.
Another villager whose house was completely smashed by a mass invasion of these four-legged jumbos with tusks claimed that his family were already evacuated.
"Look at my house! It's gone. These animals have eaten anything including my house," he angered.
"Awhile ago, two big elephants collapsed my house, and they just disappeared behind the bush and came back to gluttonously eat the major of rice fields in the subdistrict," Simbolon raised his voice raggedly.
