[at-l] OT - Re: Elephant hanging

[janl2 at mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

>>Topsy killed three men in three years, the last being a
>> trainer who fed her a lit cigarette. 

This is as depressing a thing as I've read all week.

You just gotta feel sorry for most animals, born into a world filled 
with stupid humans. I'm dead serious.

It's one reason why I just had to quit training horses.
The horses were eager enough pupils, and learned their lessons quickly.
But the people (myself included at times) were thick-headed, 
conceptual (vs. the real world animals operate in), ego-centric, 
unwise in their use of power, mightily tuned out to the animal's 
viewpoint and filled with their own importance in the big scheme of 
things.

There's just alot of war in our race. I don't see that changing, 
there's more humans in the world than ever.

Hmmmm, I think I need to get outside and smell some roses. I feel a 
dark despair coming on.



> There is a book about this event called The Day They Hung The Elephant
> (shouldn't it read "hanged"?).
> 
> Sadly, the US also publicly executed another elephant, this one named
> Topsy.  

  >Topsy killed three men in three years, the last being a
> trainer who fed her a lit cigarette.  The decision was made to
> eliminate Topsy but she proved to be a tough old girl, surviving a
> number of cyanide laced dinners before leaving park management
> searching for some other option for her elimination.
> 
> Knowing a good PR opportunity when he saw one, Thomas Edison decided
> to electrocute Topsy in front of an audience 

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