Elephant opens ‘toll plaza’ in India
May 28th, 2007 by Heywood
NEW DELHI, India — An elephant in eastern India has sparked complaints from motorists who accuse it of blocking traffic and refusing to allow vehicles to pass unless drivers give it food, The Hindustan Times said Monday.
“The tusker then inserts its trunk inside the vehicle and sniffs for food,” local resident Prabodh Mohanty, who has come across the elephant twice, was quoted as saying.
“If you are carrying vegetables and banana inside your vehicle, then it will gulp them and allow you to go.”
“We are telling commuters regularly not to tease the elephant,” said Sirish Mohanty, a forest ranger working in the state. “But if people don’t heed to our advice and harass the tusker, then it can retaliate.”
(Story via CNN.com; Image via swanksigns.org– a site that deserves its own post, which it will soon get)
