Shane McMahon's Ass
11-07-2009, 03:23 AM
A couple driving home from church in Oklahoma had a miracle escape after an elephant appeared in front of their SUV on a rural highway.
It's not unusual in that part of America for deers and cows to wander in front of traffic, but this was clearly a trunk road.
'Didn't have time to hit the brakes. The elephant blended in with the road,' said driver Bill Carpenter. 'At the very last second I said "elephant!"'
Carpenter, 68, said he swerved his SUV at the last second and ended up sideswiping the 29-year-old female elephant on a road about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City.
'So help me Hanna, had I hit that elephant, not swerved, it would have knocked it off its legs, and it would have landed right on top of us,' he said. 'We'd have been history.'
The couple, who own a wheat farm, weren't injured. But the 8ft, 4,500Ib elephant was examined for a broken tusk and a leg wound.
A local veterinarian said it appeared to have escaped major injury.
'I thought this can't be happening. Out here you could hit a deer or a cow, but this can't be happening. The good Lord was with us,' Carpenter said.
The elephant's tusk punched through the side of the SUV, tearing up sheet metal.
After sideswiping the elephant, his wife, Deena, flagged some people down and used their mobile phone to call police.
'The dispatcher didn't believe her: "You hit a what?'' he said. 'I told my wife, I don't know whether to cry or laugh.'
The elephant had escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds after something spooked it while it was being loaded into a truck with another elephant.
It's not unusual in that part of America for deers and cows to wander in front of traffic, but this was clearly a trunk road.
'Didn't have time to hit the brakes. The elephant blended in with the road,' said driver Bill Carpenter. 'At the very last second I said "elephant!"'
Carpenter, 68, said he swerved his SUV at the last second and ended up sideswiping the 29-year-old female elephant on a road about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City.
'So help me Hanna, had I hit that elephant, not swerved, it would have knocked it off its legs, and it would have landed right on top of us,' he said. 'We'd have been history.'
The couple, who own a wheat farm, weren't injured. But the 8ft, 4,500Ib elephant was examined for a broken tusk and a leg wound.
A local veterinarian said it appeared to have escaped major injury.
'I thought this can't be happening. Out here you could hit a deer or a cow, but this can't be happening. The good Lord was with us,' Carpenter said.
The elephant's tusk punched through the side of the SUV, tearing up sheet metal.
After sideswiping the elephant, his wife, Deena, flagged some people down and used their mobile phone to call police.
'The dispatcher didn't believe her: "You hit a what?'' he said. 'I told my wife, I don't know whether to cry or laugh.'
The elephant had escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds after something spooked it while it was being loaded into a truck with another elephant.