{"id":6789,"date":"2021-06-22T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:50:38","slug":"watch-elephant-rummages-through-thai-familys-kitchen-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=6789&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Elephant rummages through Thai family&#8217;s kitchen at night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BANGKOK: Some families living in a jungle may be fearful of things going bump at night, but for one household in Thailand, the sight of an elephant rummaging through their kitchen was not a total shock.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt came to cook again,\u201d wrote Kittichai Boodchan sarcastically in a caption to a Facebook video he shot over the weekend of an elephant nosing its way into his kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/video.mkv\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Likely driven by the midnight munchies, the massive animal pokes its head into Kittichai\u2019s kitchen in the early hours of Sunday, using its trunk to find food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point, it picks up a plastic bag of liquid, considers it briefly, and then sticks it in its mouth \u2014 before the video cuts out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kittichai and his wife live near a national park in western Thailand, by a lake where wild elephants often bathe while roaming in the jungle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was unperturbed by the mammoth mammal, recognising it as a frequent visitor as it often wanders into homes in his village where it eats, leaves and shoots off back into the jungle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elephant had actually destroyed their kitchen wall in May, he said, creating an open-air kitchen concept reminiscent of a drive-through window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, its sole task was to find food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kittichai said a general rule of thumb in dealing with unwelcome visitors crashing is not to feed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen it doesn\u00b4t get food, it just leaves on its own,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am already used to it coming, so I was not so worried.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wild elephants are a common sight in Thailand\u00b4s national parks and its surrounding areas, with farmers sometimes reporting incidents of their fruits and corn crops being eaten by a hungry herd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News. 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