RE: [100% veg*n ] Mary the Elephants packed her trunk ... and Flees Circus

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damn..i was hoping she trundled off to the jungle...

at least she said goodbye to the circus

ba boom

John Allan <jallan wrote:

 

>associated Press Newswires

>Copyright 2002. The Associated Press. .

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>Tuesday, June 18, 2002

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>Elephant heads downtown, as people scatter

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>MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) - An elephant bowed out early from a circus

>performance and headed down Main Street, walking about two miles through

>the city before being corralled.

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> " All of a sudden the elephant doing a performance went over the ring

>and right through the center ring, " said Shirley Kistner of Menomonie

>who was attending the circus Monday afternoon with her 6-year-old

>granddaughter, Kaitlyn.

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> " People in the stands and everybody kind of scattered, and out the

>door it went. "

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>After the 6-year-old elephant named Mary broke loose at the Dunn

>County Recreation Park, the fire department responded with lights and

>sirens, prompting Mary and another elephant, 21-year-old Tory, to begin

>running in opposite directions, officials said.

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>Tory was quickly recaptured, but Mary continued into the business

>district of Menomonie, a western Wisconsin city of 14,000, and onto the

>University of Wisconsin-Stout campus until authorities managed to block

>its way, Police Chief Dennis Beety said.

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> " People were just dumbfounded, " firefighter Tim Koleski said. " It was

>amazing. "

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>Elephant trainer Billy Morris used Tory to calm Mary, her daughter,

>and got both elephants loaded onto a semitrailer truck to take them back

>to the circus.

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>One child was treated for a slight scrape, the only injury reported.

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>A door at the park was damaged, as was a city water truck that was

>used to block the elephants. One elephant backed into the truck, causing

>about $600 damage, police reports said.

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>Apparently Mary was sick of working for peanuts.

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