Boonchuay The Burglar
When you’re sound asleep in the middle of the night and hear a crash in your kitchen, you fear the worst, thinking there’s a potentially armed intruder breaking in to rummage through your valuables. Usually, you call the cops. But what do you do when you discover the thief is an elephant?
Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon grabbed her camera and recorded Boonchuay, who crashed through her kitchen wall and used his trunk to search her shelves for a midnight snack. Believe it or not, he’s a regular in the village, searching for food when the local markets pop up and lure in the elephants from the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand.