Bewildered police, for the first time, are to investigate an elephant on charges of assault on a person.
The unprecedented case was reported to the Gwangjin Police Station on Monday in which a 48-year-old woman surnamed Kim claimed to have been hit with large stones, thrown by an elephant, according to police officials yesterday.
Kim was taking a walk on Monday morning in the Children's Grand Park Zoo in eastern Seoul, when she was knocked down by a blow to the back of her head.
When she recovered from the initial shock, she found two stones close by, each the size of a grown-up's fist.
The only potential aggressor that she could see in the perimeter was the elephant in a nearby cage, she said during police questioning.
The woman holds the zoo responsible for not supervising the animal, and police are checking the CCTV tapes. After reading about how vindictive elephants can be, and seeing how animals can be treated at zoos here, I wonder if we need to read anything into this attack on humans.
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I was at that zoo last about 8 years ago. A zookeeper was in the Zebra habit and a Zebra was lying on the ground. The zookeeper had his foot on the Zebra's torso and was pumping his leg up and down like he was giving it CPR. It was ludicrous.
I suppose that is revenge for the millions of things Koreans throw at zoo animals every day. Bravo.
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