Wetass Sport #62–Prison Soccer, Inmates vs. Elephants: Yes, elephants. Why? Because if you are a prison warden in Thailand you have two things: bored prisoners prone to gambling and other trouble, and a surplus of elephants. So what do you do? You stage an inmate vs. elephant soccer match during the European soccer championships. Not only that, you give the massive, not-very-nimble pachyderms a little love by using an oversized 20-pound ball. “We train the elephants every day to play soccer, kick the ball, and to keep from stepping on the other people,” said Pattarapon Meepan, 19, son of the elephants’ owner. “They are not the best players, because they are quite slow. But they try their best.” Their best was pretty good. The elephants managed a 5-5 draw. Perhaps it was because the prisoners seemed oddly reluctant to steal the ball out from under a lumbering two-ton animal who would rather be eating peanuts…



“Be careful dribbling around the next guy, Dumbo. He’s in for triple homicide…”