Feb 5: An incident has surfaced from Sri Lanka that has left the internet furious. A TikToker chased an elephant with his car for a video.
The video shows a man harassing a wild elephant in the middle of the night on a road near a forest. The video has gone viral on social media and has sparked outrage on Twitter.
The clip was initially shared on TikTok by the user named ‘@shashikagimhandha’. The video was reshared on Twitter and other social media platforms after it went viral.
A Twitter user Poorna Seneviratne shared the video saying, this guy needs to be found and dealt with
The video shows the TikTok user scaring away a wild elephant with his car. He spotted the elephant while driving on an empty road at night. He then deliberately chased the elephant, who clearly seemed scared, with his car an filmed the video.
If you don’t have an ounce of brains to not realize that this is absolutely disgusting and wrong, you need to be absolutely destroyed. DO NOT endanger and disturb wildlife for stupid social media views. It ain’t cool. This guy needs to be found and dealt with. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/R5SmMMWGNx
— Poorna Seneviratne (@PoornaSenev) February 3, 2022
The video even caught the attention of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka. They said they have all the details of the disturbing incident have been submitted to the Department of Wildlife Conservation for action.
The video sparked outrage among the Twitterati and animal lovers.
Gosh this made me furious! The audacity to endanger the wildlife and make a video out of it for likes.Tagging those who can legally deal with this kind of behavior so this does not become a trend. @cher @otaradel @ShermiRaja @RajapaksaNamal @wnpssl.
— Thashuki Mendis (@ThashukiMendis) February 3, 2022
Cancel his DL and put him behind the bars
— ♚Kohli (@ARind87) February 4, 2022
This is so disturbing one…. So bad how humans behave sometimes #HorribleHorriblePerson
— Ashok kumar (@ashok7545) February 4, 2022
