Pachyderm Paranoia

Anyone who has spent any length of time living in a large, overpopulated urban area has experienced either peripherally or first hand gang warfare. Some people who do not know their history may believe that gangs are a modern curse created by our fast paced lifestyle. Of course those who think that are incorrect.

Gangs have been with us for ages. In Europe before mass immigration to America and here in the United States some immigrants joined gangs almost as soon as they left Ellis Island.

In Chicago there was Al Capone and everyone knows about the mafia in New York.

Those in the know had come to accept that as far as gangs go there was nothing new under the sun. Unfortunately they were wrong. Just when it was believed that gangs had reached the apex of evolution a wrench was thrown in the works.

Gangs have jumped species. They are no longer limited to human behavior.

According to experts gangs of angry pachyderms have been attacking people and villages in Asia and Africa. Various theories abound from overcrowding to post traumatic stress syndrome.

Whatever the root cause, the thought of an animal as large as an elephant chasing me down does not produce restful sleep, on the contrary it produces nightmares and not ones featuring pink elephants on parade.

My only advice is to be careful when walking alone at night, look over your shoulder and if you should happen to see a suspiciously wide telephone pole run. You never know what might be hiding behind it.