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Videotaping Set Off Elephant Rampage

Videotaping Set Off Elephant Rampage County Treasurer Ruffles Ecaped County Treasurer Allen Ruffles, just returned from a year in East Africa as a sergeant in the Army Reserves, said the only time he felt in danger was when he was videotaping this herd that wandered past his unit’s bivouac in Uganda.  This is a still from the video.  The elephants noticed him and charged, but Ruffles, who returned to Cooperstown from his one-year assignment last Sunday, was able to take…

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Assigned To Djibouti, Ruffles Trained Rangers, Dodged Elephant Herd

COUNTY TREASURER HOME Assigned To Djibouti, Ruffles Trained Rangers, Dodged Elephant Herd By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Only once did Allen Ruffles feel he was in any danger. A sergeant in the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, Army Reserves, he was living in a small wooden house in Uganda, training local wildlife rangers in anti-poaching techniques. One morning, Ruffles – Otsego County treasurer in civilian life – heard a rumble and looked out the window at a…

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