From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 2:58 PM
Ed Anderson wrote:
>
> Before my grandchildren descend on this household
later today I just > want to take the opportunity, while I have it, to wish
all my “Rotary” > friends a Great Holiday. I truly enjoy our
“conversations”. Though > there are a number of you I have not personally met
– yet, I think > truly kindred spirits indeed are those who undertake
this endeavor.
>
I would like to wish everyone the merriest of Christmases,
and to that end I would like to pass along this heat-warming internet
story that was recently passed on to me. May you always land heads-up and
wheels down.


In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after
graduating from Northwestern University.

On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull
elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant
seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one
knee, inspected the elephant’s foot, and found a large piece of
wood deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the
wood out with his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its
foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious
look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.

Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being
trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and
walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago
Zoo with his teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one
of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and
his son, Cameron, were standing. The large bull elephant stared at
Peter lifted its front foot off the ground and then put it down. The
elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while
staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help
wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage,
climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked
right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant
trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him
against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.



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