In India, cows may be sacred, but no one is teaching them that teasing an animal that can carry a tree with its tusks may not be a good idea. Yet that was the very idea that formed in Prawat's head (poor, poor Prawat), when he saw a herd of five performing elephants chained to trees outside a Buddhist temple.
While the owner waited inside conducting business Prawat, a 50-year-old man with nothing better to do, offered sugar cane to one of the ever-hungry elephants... then pulled it away. Then he did it again. And again. And again.
The game was great fun for Prawat, but the elephant quickly tired of it. The last time Prawat withdrew the treat, the elephant swung his massive tusks and gored him through the stomach. Prawat died on the way to the hospital. The elephant ate the sugar cane.
On your next trip through life, Prawat, stay away from the circus. Elephants are big and they never forget a face.
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