Elephant Stomped Silicon Valley Giant Tom Siebel

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Elephant-Tramples-Silicon-Valley-Giant-Siebel-56915727.html

Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Siebel says he's recovering from broken ribs and legs after an elephant charged at him and a tour guide in the Serengeti a month ago.

Siebel on Wednesday told the San Jose Mercury News that the animal plowed into the guide and then attacked him, breaking several ribs, goring him in the left leg and crushing the right leg.

"It was all happening so fast." Siebel told the paper. "There was no place to hide, no place to run."

The 55-year-old Siebel Systems software founder said the Aug. 1 attack happened during a photo safari in Tanzania.

Siebel and the guide were watching a group of elephants from about 200 yards away when one of them charged at the pair without warning, he said. The guide fired at the massive animal as it thundered toward them, but missed.

The elephant stomped and gored the billionaire until he "curled into as tight a ball as I could," he told the paper.

that a big supporter of Sarah Palin got stomped by an elephant?

not every elephant is a Republican.

I'm glad that Siebel is recovering. Must have been a scary and painful experience.

It could've been worse. he could have been dressed as Billy Banana and been peeled to death! :rofl:

I thought that it would be about how he was somehow screwed over by the Republican party. It never crossed my mind that he was actually physically stomped on by an honest-to-God elephant.

That had to be some scary!

I'm just sayin'.

Not a word from Siebel or the reporter about what happened to the guide. Hope he wasn't just dismissed with wages.