Hungry elephant stopped loaded truck and eat potatoes video goes viral on social media. A hungry elephant came from dense forest stopped a loaded truck at road and picked potatoes start eating in Bengal state India.
Elephants entering farm land and destroying food grains is a common incident in the state.
An often reported along with cases of villagers being killed in elephant attacks.
Hungry elephant stopped loaded truck and eat potatoes video goes viral on social media
Some truck drivers and people passing through the forests of Garhbeta in West Midnapore have witnessed a completely bizarre sight.
When a tusker stopped a truck loaded with potatoes and started eating them by removing the tarpaulin cover.
Some drivers gathered courage to get down from their vehicles to see the elephant in action from a close quarter.
The others found to capturing the moment on their mobile phones.
The truck which stopped by the elephant in the middle of National Highway 60.
The elephant did not care what the people were doing around it and went ahead with its work.
The elephant took out some potatoes from the truck and ate them.
Hungry elephant stopped loaded truck and eat potatoes video goes viral on social media
It dropped some on the road and then picked them up with its trunk and started eating again.
The elephant took out some potatoes from the truck and ate them.
It dropped some on the road and then picked them up with its trunk and started eating again.
The forest department employees burst fire crackers near the elephant but it remained unmoved.
The truck drivers shouted at the top of their voices to drive it away but nothing enough to make a full grown elephant get scared.
Vehicles plying through the area on Sunday morning remained stranded for nearly an hour till the forest department officials reached the spot.
Few minutes later the animal changed its mind and entered the forest area to a great relief of the forest department officers.
The traffic then became normal after almost an hour.
The locals who came to see the incident said it might have been too hungry after failing to get some food in the forest.
