Comments on: The Elephant's Graveyard

The Elephant's Graveyard

SPrintF — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:22:32 -0800

Goodbye, Norma Jean. Norma the elephant was killed by a stroke of lightning. Seventy years earlier, though, Topsy was electrocuted by Thomas Edison, to "demonstrate" the danger of alternating current. Only a few years later, Mary was sentenced to death by hanging, to the amusement and edification of onlookers. It's rough being an elephant in America.

By: boredomjockey

boredomjockey — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:38:09 -0800

I loved going to see Ziggy at Brookfield Zoo when I was a kid. People are horrible to animals.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:57:52 -0800

nice addenum to this post

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:34:43 -0800

That Mary article is horrific. Sung: That's Entertainment!

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:20:40 -0800

It's rough being an elephant in America. True, but it's getting a little bit less so. In a few decades, our children may look at the practice of penning these remarkable creatures with the same disbelief with which we regard that of electrocuting them.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:26:08 -0800

i blame the liberals

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:45:29 -0800

Bring Back the Elephants!

By: steef

steef — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:48:31 -0800

what? no tusko?

By: aaaaa

aaaaa — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:15:40 -0800

What about Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA? They have an elephant buried on campus.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:17:47 -0800

Slightly off-topic: frankly, I'm shocked that there are still zoos that have the old-style cages and pens and whatnot. Ever since I visited the Minneapolis-St. Paul zoo twenty years ago, with its vast tracts of natural habitat for the animals to roam within (in some cases, you're lucky to see them—I remember the thrill of seeing, after waiting twenty minutes, the shape of a lion moving throught the grass). I suppose some animals can be happy in relatively small pens and cages, but surely the big animals can't. Having visited a progressive zoo like that one, I'm certainly not opposed to zoos on principle. Just the old-style ones.

By: y0bhgu0d

y0bhgu0d — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:08:47 -0800

when i went to school up in johnson city, tn last august, we passed by this small town called erwin. my friends spoke of erwin as if i should know about it. they explained, "that's where they hung an elephant."

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:37:06 -0800

better then being a black person at the time.