I touched a sleeping bull elephant's tail with the barrel of my rifle.
Probably wouldn't try it again but there he was so I did it.

I also had a trespassing poacher step on my leg while I was wearing camo and sitting against a tree. He took off like a scalded cat when I asked him what heck he thought was doing.
I guess he figured the voice was coming from under the ground.

"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett