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To: Stephen O who wrote (7557)	10/30/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 62552

Farmer injured trying to milk wild elephant Friday October 30 11:16 AM EDT dailynews.yahoo.com NAIROBI (Reuters) - A young farmer was badly injured by an irate elephant after he tried to milk her while she was grazing with her calf, a Kenyan newspaper reported Friday. The Daily Nation said Peter Baraza, 21, crept up on the wild elephant near Lake Nakuru in Kenya's Rift Valley and managed to pull nearly a pint of milk before the cow realized it was not her calf that was suckling. The elephant tossed Baraza and his half-filled can in the air and pursued him as he scrambled, badly winded, up a nearby tree. It then uprooted the tree with its trunk and waved it in the air with Baraza still clinging to the branches. The Daily Nation said the cow was finally distracted by a group of screaming women and Baraza was rescued and taken to hospital. The newspaper did not say why Baraza -- who suffered broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder -- tried to milk the elephant. Earlier Stories