Elephants Save 18-Wheeler Truck
American Ingenuity, Elephants, Louisiana
Business Insider describes an emergency situation in which it turned out that the trucker had exactly the right equipment in the back of his cargo bed.
Sometimes, the only thing standing between you and your 18-wheeler tipping over in the Louisiana mud is a couple of elephants that you’ve fortunately been transporting.
That’s just what happened on Tuesday when a truck became stranded by the side of a Louisiana road.
Sheriff’s deputies in Natchitoches Parish on Tuesday morning received a call about a stuck truck. Upon arriving on the scene, they saw two elephants preventing the vehicle from overturning.
Leaning side-by-side against the outside of the truck, the elephants propped up the trailer that was carrying three of the beasts from Florida to a circus near Dallas, the sheriff’s photos showed.
The truck had pulled over on an interstate shoulder near Powhatan, Louisiana, about an hour south of Shreveport. The ground was soft after recent rain.