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  • Michael Rosefield

    After seeing awful stuff like http://io9.com/5976696/elephant-taunting-now-a-thing-in-india, it’s nice to see the other side of the coin.

  • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

    Sounds like it was the biggest thing to happen there all month.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8834925 Chauncey Scott

    I’m amazed the elephant, climbed out of the hole with all of that noise, and then pressed forward under the backhoe.  That being said, who’s brilliant idea was it to park at the end of the escape route.

    All in all, job well done, though.

    • CLamb

       Yeah, I would’ve rather sat safely in a well then crawl under a precariously perched backhoe.

    • mkanoap

       I suspect the elephant started climbing as soon as there was a path, and they did not get an opportunity to move the backhoe that was used to make the path.

  • voiceinthedistance

    Waiter, my water tastes funny.

    • http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney

      Our deepest apologies, sir, it seems it’s got a little elephant in it.

      • PhosPhorious

        (Really?  We’re doing elephant jokes?  COOL!)

        “Waiter, what’s that elephant doing in my water?”

        “Looks like the backstroke. . . “

  • http://twitter.com/Epers Eddie Perkins

    It would tale Lassie forever to explain this. 

  • Boundegar

    You helped her?  Why did you do that?  Don’t you understand?  She never sleeps.

  • Roose_Bolton

    All’s well that ends well.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    Doesn’t it seem odd that the elephants would send a baby out as a scout?

    • http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

      That’s pretty irresponsible.

    • L_Mariachi

      The little ones are more nimble and can evade detection more easily than the adults.

  • BorkBorkington

    We’re sending our love down the well…

  • derek prowse

     that place was pach’d.

  • winkybb

    I saddens me to think that at the rate of ongoing habitat destruction and poaching, they’ll all be gone in a few (relatively speaking) years anyway. All the big cats (in the wild at least) will be gone in my lifetime, too.

  • greebo

    Doesn’t look like a well to me, looks like a heffalump trap. I wonder if it was baited with haycorns or honey?

  • http://www.doggo.net doggo

    Jeez, guys, why don’tcha scare the hell out of the little guy? I mean, I’m glad they got the little critter out, but holy crap, does everybody have to scream their bloody heads off the whole time they’re working on it? WTF?

    • winkybb

      And then all maniacally chase him like the zombie hordes from WWZ.

  • SuperMatt

    I hope its name is Jessica.  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure