Amazing! Elephant plays with car with occupants inside

This elephant just have to scratch it’s body on a nearby parked Volkswagen CAR. Luckily for the two people inside the car at the time, he didn’t end up crushing them but it did cause a lot of damage to the car: all of the windows were crushed, the roof was smashed, all four tires were popped and the chassis was broken.



Armand Grobler, 21, who captured the moment in photographs, told UK Mirror “We were unsure of what to do in the situation when the elephant made contact with the car, and when the car was being crushed, we feared for the lives of the driver and passenger, but our efforts were very limited as to what we could do,”
Fortunately, the male and female occupants were unharmed but, understandably, very shaken.
“They were both in shock but happy to be alive,” Grobler told the Mirror.

Elephants use trees or rocks to scratch an itch they can’t reach with their trunks, but that might not have been the only reason for its behavior with the car.
“The elephant was presumably on musth, which is a time that an elephant male has an excess amount of testosterone, turning even the calmest Dumbo into a raging bull,” Grobler told the Mirror. “Yet even though it was in this condition, it displayed no signs of aggression or frustration and was in a more playful mood.”
As for the elephant, after giving itself a good scratch, it continued on it’s way itch free – oblivious to the destruction it had left behind.