Elephant put down in KNP after attack

[HapticSimian]

1 - why the hell were you driving then?
2 - the gears in the UK are on the same bloody side as South Africa, you pathetic, lying moron. Even if you owned a LHD vehicle, you'd have completed in your driving test in a RHD vehicle.

3 - piss off out of the country and don't come back...

Not that I doubt the woman's idiocy one iota, but I suspect what she meant was that the location of reverse gear was opposite to what she's used to. Many cars have reverse to the right and down, where a Polo's is to the left and up. To complicate matters further VeeDubs have a safety mechanism which would have one pushing down - towards the car's floor - on the gear lever when hooking reverse; if one doesn't chances are the car will slip into first instead.

She's still a numpty, but that bit is plausible.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Not that I doubt the woman's idiocy one iota, but I suspect what she meant was that the location of reverse gear was opposite to what she's used to. Many cars have reverse to the right and down, where a Polo's is to the left and up. To complicate matters further VeeDubs have a safety mechanism which would have one pushing down - towards the car's floor - on the gear lever when hooking reverse; if one doesn't chances are the car will slip into first instead.

She's still a numpty, but that bit is plausible.

Surely she had driven the vehicle for a good 200kms by that point, even if she had just picked it up from the airport and gone straight to Kruger.... should have been aware of the requirements of reverse by that point.

 

[supersunbird]

And how did she get THAT close to the elephant in the first place?

 

[DJ...]

Not that I doubt the woman's idiocy one iota, but I suspect what she meant was that the location of reverse gear was opposite to what she's used to. Many cars have reverse to the right and down, where a Polo's is to the left and up. To complicate matters further VeeDubs have a safety mechanism which would have one pushing down - towards the car's floor - on the gear lever when hooking reverse; if one doesn't chances are the car will slip into first instead.

She's still a numpty, but that bit is plausible.

Then point 1 stands. WTF was she doing driving the vehicle in the first place if she didn't know where the gears were.

She's a prized specimen this one - a Darwin Award waiting to happen. One can only hope...

 

[HapticSimian]

Surely she had driven the vehicle for a good 200kms by that point, even if she had just picked it up from the airport and gone straight to Kruger.... should have been aware of the requirements of reverse by that point.

Well, sure... My post should hardly be construed as a defence. That said one should perhaps exhibit only enough charity to concede that, in a state of abject panic, the woman was confounded by an unfamiliar mechanism.

Doesn't change the fact that they shouldn't have been that close to the animal in the first place.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

And how did she get THAT close to the elephant in the first place?

That's besides the point. There should be a disclaimer that these are wild animals and attacks may occur. It is their habitat that she is invading, so why should the animal be put down for doing what it does naturally?

 

[Nerfherder]

1 - why the hell were you driving then?
2 - the gears in the UK are on the same bloody side as South Africa, you pathetic, lying moron. Even if you owned a LHD vehicle, you'd have completed in your driving test in a RHD vehicle.

3 - piss off out of the country and don't come back...

I think she means the reverse gear was on the wrong side of the gear box.

Some cars have it next to the 1st and others have it next to the 5th.


That could explain a lot of what they did wrong.... going forward when they should have been going back.


I hate it when I get in to a car and you have to do a handstand to get the car in to reverse... I have seen so many different kinds of reverse gears, push in, pull out, lift a ridge.
I can imagine with an elephant right there is might have caused a bit of stress.

BUT She should have figured that out before she got in the park.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Doesn't change the fact that they shouldn't have been that close to the animal in the first place.

In a nature reserve you sometimes get close to animals. One should understand that there are risks involved when this happens. Ignorance is no excuse IMO.

 

[Ninja'd]

The elephant, the car, the other tourists and so on. I bet she's last on the blame list.

 

[Nerfherder]

They opened the border to Moz. Hoping that the elephants will go over the border... well apparently Elephants are not as stupid as humans, They know they are and were poached in that area and do not cross over.

They actually spent millions moving some of them over and they just came right back. LOL