This is touching

[The_Reaper]

I don't normally pass these feel good stories around, but I
>thought
>this one was special...
>
>
>In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from
>North-western University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a
>young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
>The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully.
>He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot, and found a
>large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently
>as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after
>which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
>The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on
>its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen,
>thinking of nothing else but being trampled.
>Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
>Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
>
>
>Twenty years later, Mbembe was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his
>teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the
>creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu
>were standing.
>The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the
>ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times, then
>trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
>Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if
>this was the same elephant. Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed
>over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right
>up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
>
>
>
>The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe's
>
>
>legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
>
>Probably wasn't the same elephant.

[The-Stig]

ROFL...Reps!