Philobiblon

At regular intervals, elephants go on the rampage in Bangkok, sometimes simply because it is just an incredibly stressful environment for them (I remember some years ago a woman being crushed to death in a car because drivers in a queue all started blowing their horns and the elephant unsurprisingly lost it), and sometimes they are mistreated.

In this case the latter … the mahoutt “left it chained without food since Wednesday morning while he visited a relative”

If you are thinking “somewhere I read that elephants were banned from Bangkok” – well you’re not wrong – that’s been “done” about six times… but policemen will take bribes, plus there’s the fact that since Thailand has virtually no forest left, having logged it all, there’s no work for elephants in the countryside.