Kumo: Ninja and Elephant Conquerer Pt 1

Some of you know my crazy sister, Kumo.

She thinks she's a ninja.

The other night, we watched the movie Ong Bak 2.


Which is a pretty awesome action/martial arts movie. There are some seriously crazy fight scenes and stunts in this film. It's an amazing piece of cinema. Kumo, however, sort of took it as an educational video.

There's a scene in this movie where Tony Jaa runs across the backs of a running herd of elephants. It's not CGI, it's not blue screen, he really did it. And ever since we watched it, Kumo's been talking about reenacting the "running on the tops of the elephants" scene.



Voltaire and I met her outside this afternoon, where she said she'd gotten this elephant thing figured out.


She said the hardest part had been figuring out where to get a herd of elephants. But that Tycho had helped her out.

Tycho showed up just then, and said that he hoped Kumo wasn't disspointed, because it was a pretty small herd of elephants, but that he hoped they'd work for what she wanted to do.



He wasn't kidding when he said a "small herd." They were tiny!


I figured Kumo hadn't told Tycho what her plans for the elephants were, and that that would be the end of it. But Kumo took a look at the elephants and declared that she was going to give it a try!


As she lined up the "herd" I figured maybe she was just going to jump OVER the elephants, and that that would probably be enough like the Tony Jaa scene to make her happy.

I was wrong.

And it went about as well as you would've expected running over the backs of tiny elephants would go. Poor little things.

Tycho rescued his slightly traumatized (and squished) herd and left. And I really thought that would be the end of it. But again, I was wrong.



Kumo said that she had it figured out, she just needed the right elephants. She said to come back to the same place tomorrow morning and I'd see.

And now she's been on the phone all night, but I don't know who she's been calling. I'm almost afraid to see what happens tomorrow morning. But hopefully no more elephants will be squished in her attempt to imitate Tony Jaa.