Elephants in this country are nothing to be sneezed at. They are harmless - if they stay in the mountains. But when they come into the village looking for water, all hell can break loose and everything can be destroyed (I think my childhood love of Babar was a farce). In the same waterless, solar powered village, we discovered a thick metal wire running its perimeter (that is, I got clothes-lined and then we discovered it). This wire is attached to a homemade contraption that holds a very heavy rock in place. When the wire is disrupted at any spot, the small boulder drops onto a flat rock at the exact place where fireworks have been placed. The fireworks go off and the elephants are spooked and run away. Well let me tell you exactly how "spooked" I was - after I hit the ground thinking we were being shot at, the concept of EAS was made very clear. Got it- Patent No. 5,687,104 coming right up.
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