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Full audience and you would hear the crowd clap, it gave me goosebumps. but despite the excitement, david knows that working with the world s largest land animals is inherently risky. david is warned about one elephant in particular. cindy had a lot of crazy behaviors with other keepers in the past. a known danger to humans, only keepers who had trained cindy when she arrived from a tacoma, washington, zoo are allowed to get close to the animal. newcomers like david always use the matriarch elephant, nita, as a shield when they are near her. for two years he keeps his distance from cindy. but on that day in january, he notices she s a little too close for comfort. cindy was next to the gate. i needed to get her moved. and in the process of moving cindy, i opened the gate and should have closed the gate behind me. but david doesn t close the gate. a mistake that will almost cost him his life. ....
Patriarch elephant nita as a shield when they are near her. for two years he keeps his distance from cindy. but on that day in january, he notices she s a little too close for comfort. cindy was next to the gate. i needed to get her moved. in the process of moving cindy, i opened the gate and i should have closed the gate behind me. but david doesn t close the gate. a mistake that will almost cost him his life. just moments later he senses he s in trouble. i just had a feeling that she was going to come after me. so i yelled for help. hey, bob! and right when i yelled hey, bob, she ran after me. she knew the terror in my voice. with 10,000 pounds of angry elephant heading straight for him, david lunges for the quickest escape route. the fastest way was diving under the belly of another elephant, so i can have a buffer ....
it s an awkward moment to say the least. i didn t know what to do. i couldn t walk over and hug him, i mean, that s not really the i don t think that s the social gesture for when someone breaks an artifact. chris may have moved on to the next topic, but almost immediately the show and tell moment becomes an online treasure. two days after this live event, i was sitting in a cafe. a gentleman walked by and he looked at me and he said, i just saw you in a video on the internet. it was you and an old guy and then he breaks it and he cusses. this was back in 2002 before youtube. the cylinder breaking isn t the only segment from the telethon that will catch fire on the internet. several hours later it s chris self-control that shatters. hey, what s so funny? [ burps ] excuse you. i need more pept ol biz moll. ....
i stood up and looked, and i saw the shelving tumbling, and i saw the wine running all over. richard immediately focuses on cleaning up the mess, although, at first he underestimates just what a huge task it will be. i said to my son, get a mop, but a mop wasn t something we needed. we needed something to suck up all the wine. every inch of the store needed to be wiped down. stock in the back rooms, that sits on the floor, so that was all wet. the cardboard cases were soaked with wine. so we needed to pick them up and clean underneath them. of course, those boxes were all ruined. they were soggy. with the help of a professional cleaning crew and almost all the employees, the work is completed in less than 24 hours. the store remains open throughout the entire ordeal. we never shut down. somebody came in the front door, we stopped them, asked them what they wanted, and got their product. ....
i stood up and looked and i saw the shelving tumbling. and i saw the wine running all over. richard immediately focuses on cleaning up the mess although at first he underestimates just what a huge task it will be. i said to my son, get a mop, but a mop wasn t something we needed. we needed something to suck up all the wine. every inch of the store needed to be wiped down. stock in the back rooms, that sits on the floor, so that was all wet, the cardboard cases were soaked with wine. so we needed to pick them up. and clean underneath them. of course, those boxes were all ruined. they were soggy. with the help of a professional cleaning crew and almost all the employees, the work is completed in less than 24 hours. the store remains open throughout the entire ordeal. we never shut down. somebody came in the front door, we stopped them and asked them what they wanted and got their product. ....