A wild elephant raided a home in the middle of the night to steal fruit before being chased away by a policeman<br /><br />Buarai Khamdech, 66, was at home with her grandchild when she was woken up by a stomping sound in Chonburi, Thailand on Wednesday (November 28) night.<br /><br />She peeked through her window and was shocked to see an elephant at her neighbour's house, where it was chomping through fruit trees.<br /><br />Footage shows the jumbo walking around the house opposite from Buarai before it trampled some of the garden furniture.<br /><br />Police Lieutenant Wallop Tassanathanapong received an emergency call from the pensioner. He arrived within a few minutes and chased the jumbo away.<br /><br />Buarai praised the policeman, who she said had a ''special ability'' to command the elephants.<br /><br />She said: "Our village is located near the mountain where the elephants live and they always come down and eat our fruits.<br /><br />"This policeman is the only person who can deal with them quickly.''<br /><br />The policeman said that he was just doing his job. He said he remained calm so the elephant would not panic and goes berserk.<br /><br />He said: "Villagers have superstitions and believe that I possess some kind of supernatural skill that can control the jumbos, but actually I'm just a normal policeman.<br /><br />"I just try to talk to the elephants calmly without scaring them because shouting or making sudden movements might startle them and cause them to hurt the residents."
