May 12, 2008: Permission Granted

[monster]

I think he's about to "Fuel" the car. What's the capacity of the tank in those things?

[Leah]

Bruce I love the end result photo very cute, but honestly what stupid people they are, that elephant could probably out run their car anyway, why get so close.?????? Stupid stupid stupid people.

[Elspode]

Elephant spunk...the new biofuel!

You can trust your truck to a great big pachyderm fuck!

I gotta agree about the shocked expressions, though. I think they're less worried about what he's doing to the car with his fore trunk than they are with what he might be about to do with his aft trunk.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I don't know, but I'd be a mite more concerned that the roof was buckling.

[Scriveyn]

Canned food? Testing the vacuum seal?

Recipes anyone?

[dar512]

Forget the metric system, I think we've just invented the elephant measurement system.

Originally Posted by monster

I think he's about to "Fuel" the car. What's the capacity of the tank in those things?

About 3 espunks

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Uh...Can't a Rabbit outrun an elephant? I'd damn sure be finding out!

Depending on the species, rabbits are about 4500 esph whereas elephants are about 2500 esph. esph = elephant schlongs per hour

See. Much more understandable than metric.

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK, here's the story in the Telegraph.

"In front of us was a safari vehicle with tourists," said the 27-year-old.

"My sister and I drove in our Golf behind them. We saw a group of elephants and started taking photos when we saw the elephant head our way.

"A game ranger shouted that I must turn the car off, which I did."

Mr Beltrame then thought that the elephant would walk past them.

Instead, it seemingly decided to take a closer look at the occupants of the car.

"We got very scared when he stood by us and put his foot on the hood of the car," Mr Beltrame added.

"We waited about five or six minutes, sitting without moving, waiting, before the elephant continued walking. "It was an unbelievable experience."

Keith Marallich from Far and Wild Safaris said the photo was taken by one of their British clients.

According to Ms Renette van der Merwe, regional manager of Budget rent-a-car, who Beltrame rented the car from, the damage cost about R7000 to repair the car.

[Grismar]

Originally Posted by monster

I think he's about to "Fuel" the car. What's the capacity of the tank in those things?

About 45 liters - a little under 12 gallons - going by several online auctions of ca. 1980 VW Golf models. A single squeeze of the ... ahem ... fuel pump, when properly stimulated, would yield only about 40 milliliters of seminal fluid. Check here si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/318/1/Hildebrandt2000.pdf . So, you'd have to 'give this guy a hand' about 11,250 times before you've filled her up. And that's assuming his seminal vesicles (the glands that produce the fluids) are working overtime to keep up.

As far as recipe ideas go: shark fin soup anyone?