[at-l] OT - Re: Elephant hanging

[lthompson at hollins.edu (Lilla Thompson)]

What I'm wondering is how you hang an elephant.  There have got to be (witness T. Edison's method) alot easier ways to kill one.  Not that I condone executing animals; it's a truly ridiculous concept.      




> There is a book about this event called The Day They Hung The Elephant
> (shouldn't it read "hanged"?).
>
> Knowing a good PR opportunity when he saw one, Thomas Edison decided
> to electrocute Topsy in front of an audience 

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