I feel like a circus performer doing daily death-defying feats on a high wire only to have the show stolen by an elephant. No sooner did I compose a post bemoaning the glacial speed of karma (even daring to question its very existence), than along came a story about an elephant—a very angry, rampaging elephant at that—who metered out some instant karma on his ivory poachers. (An upside of climate change? Perhaps global warming is speeding up karma along with the rate of ice-melt.)
But this was more than the faceless fate that seems to well up from the soul of Nature Herself (such as when a hunter falls out of his tree stand). This is a case of direct action on the part of an injured animal who decided to take his would-be assassin out with him in a single stomp.
Now that the story has gone relatively viral, I’m thinking maybe I should not waste time philosophizing and save my posting for any other entertaining acts of animal karma that come along (like when a deer trees a hunter or a trapper steps into his own freshly set torture device).
We can all use a good cheering up once in a while.
Exposing the Big Game 
Love the post!!
Thanks Beth
I think this would make a great series. Reminds me of the animal arson posts:
http://wildfiretoday.com/tag/animal-arson/
Good idea,
Yes! Screw the philosophizing! Post more stories about about poachers, hunters and trappers who get theirs! 😀
I hope there’s enough material to go on…;)
Reblogged this on Carinas space.
At the beginning of The Soprano series, Tony Soprano, was upset that a family of ducks had vacated his built-in swimming pool, setting up the character as being “sensitive.” James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano, recently died from a massive heart attack after consuming a huge plate of prawns and an oversized portion of Foie Gras. Seems ironic that the character cared about ducks but in the end the actor died after eating Foie Gras from tortured ducks. Now that’s karma. Good riddance.
Thanks for that info; now I will think about what he ate every time I hear the media drone on and on about him or the fact that his body is being shipped back to the U.S.