Elephants on the loose cause a circus in Ontario

[applegrove]

Elephants on the loose cause a circus in Ontario
Two circus elephants freak out the locals in Newmarket, Ont. as confused police officers take their calls
OMAR EL AKKAD

Globe and Mail Update

July 12, 2007 at 4:09 PM EDT

TORONTO — "In the no-nonsense parlance of York Regional Police, they were described as “elephants outstanding.”

In fact there were elephants out standing in the middle of downtown Newmarket, Ont., just north of Toronto, early Thursday morning – munching on tree leaves, stress-testing the concrete, freaking out the local population, and doing what escaped circus elephants do.

Suzy, Bunny and Minny, weighing in at a combined 11,000 kilograms, managed to escape from the confines of their Garden Brothers Circus pen around 3 a.m. Thursday. An electric fence, the sole guard against such pachydermic freedom, had been accidentally disabled earlier in the evening.

And so Suzy and Bunny made a break for it. Minny, too, got out of the pen, but then promptly fell asleep.

.......SNIP"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070712.welephants0712/BNStory/National/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp

[taterguy]

1. I've had it with these motherfucking elephants in a motherfucking Canadian village

I guess that line works better with snakes and a bad-ass accent.

[achtung_circus]

3. That village

has 75,000 people and I'm the on-call SPCA Officer tommorrow and as such, time permitting, am expected to inspect the circus. If I do I'll take some pics. Follow the link and there's audio of the 911 call and the York Regional Police radio traffic on the call. It's pretty good. The Yorkies rock, we love them.

[Kali]

9. hey I need to send you a pm - check it in a bit

:hi:

[stuntcat]

2. Best. Headline. Ever.

:thumbsup:

[xchrom]

4. lol -- minny promptly fell asleep!

ooookkkkaaaayyyy -- freedom, been there done that -- got bored.

[applegrove]

5. Well it was night time and minny probably found it all too much with the walking and all LOL!

Lots of walking when you are free.

[xchrom]

6. lol --oh -- Honey -- don't i know how she feels!

you go minny girl -- you just take that nap!

[applegrove]

7. Sometimes they use the actual elephants to raise the "big tent". Minny could be

tired from putting the whole thing up. That is hard work.

[xchrom]

8. yeah -- i've seen them do that.

amazing stuff --

although in my mind -- minny probably finds a way out of it -- and naps.