JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A safari guide rushed on foot toward an elephant at a South African game park while fellow guides whooped and laughed at the foolhardy stunt, which cost the ranger his job when a video of the incident was posted online.

The episode at Kruger National Park was a startling reversal of the occasional tales of elephants charging tourists in vehicles that got too close, and a variation of the “man bites dog” saying, originally a journalistic reference to how the unusual constitutes news.