I don’t know if the elephant will remember it, but the couple whose SUV hit the animal sure won’t forget it. And either will the 911 call taker. The story from Enid, Oklahoma.
Animal rights organization says this was a repeat performance
“What elephant? I don’t see no elephant.” That was a line from Jimmy Durante (ask your parents, grandparents or Firegeezer). Luckily Bill Carpenter did see the elephant and swerved while driving with his wife on a road in Enid, Oklahoma.
Carpenter believes if it had been a direct hit they would have been a goner with 4500 pounds of elephant coming through the windshield. Instead it was a glancing blow that cracked the animal’s tusk as it ripped through the side of the SUV.
Imagine you are on the receiving end of the 911 call and hear that someone has just hit an elephant with their vehicle on U.S. 81.
The elephant is Kamba, who escaped from a traveling circus that had come to town. Since the Carpenters are okay, the serious side of all this comes from In Defense of Animals which believes the circus life has not been good to Kamba and cites a previous escape during a tornado in Kansas.
