Elephant on the loose

[rapmarks Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close rapmarks]

A resident in baraboo was surprised to see an eight thousand pound elephant in his yard at five in the morning. She got loose from circus world museum. Police and the zoo keeper returned her to the museum.
If you are in dells July 1 to 4, $5 admission on those dates. There is a new big top and it was a good show this year with many acts and lasting over an hour. For adults, the wagons are worth the cost of admittance, and do take the guided tour. The buildings have very interesting displays. This year I took the historical walking tour of baraboo, and it was interesting. Two of the former ringling homes and the theatre also have tours.


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[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

Yikes an elephant?
They must have thought they were dreaming.
He must have been trying to run away from the circus.
Apparently they don't treat them too well.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

I saw it in the news. Imagine looking out your window and seeing an elephant go by???

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Many years ago at a place I worked a woman came in late one morning claiming the road was closed due to an elephant. No one believed her, but the next morning she came in with proof in a newspaper article. Turns out that there was a summer place for Elephants and other circus animals about 25 miles from where I live. I think it still is some kind of animal farm.

[mav Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mav]

Yikes an elephant?
They must have thought they were dreaming.
He must have been trying to run away from the circus.
Apparently they don't treat them too well.

U R so right about that!

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

Yikes an elephant?
They must have thought they were dreaming.
He must have been trying to run away from the circus.
Apparently they don't treat them too well.

We saw the show couple years ago.
Unlike the older 'working/traveling' circus where the elephants had to move equipment and do the heavy labor, these elephants do a small part of the show, then go back and eat.
But, like everyone else, they want to see what is beyond the pen. In her case, Miss Kelly wanted to taste something different. She ate flowers in someone's back yard. When her handler came to get her, she went with him willingly.

The place is interesting with all the old wagons and the history of the circus through the years and in other countries.

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When we first moved here, my husband went for a jog and came back telling me he ran past a buffalo. "A buffalo? Are you sure it wasn't a horse?" I said. He got very insulted and told me he certainly knew what a buffalo looked like.
Sure enough, they were just building our town' ecology center and had gotten a rescue buffalo. The park was not completed yet, so they just tied the buffalo to a tree on the side of the road. Now the ecology center is a thriving park, dedicated to the care of rescue animals. They got a mate for that buffalo (both are now gone) and they had many babies which were donated to other ecology centers.

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One year we went on a circus wagon tour (and I do recommended this). Our guide was so knowledgeable, and talked about finding these wagons in farmers fields. Turned out he had run away and joined the circus in his teens, he showed me a picture and he was a clown, in his eighties now.


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[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

When we first moved here, my husband went for a jog and came back telling me he ran past a buffalo. "A buffalo? Are you sure it wasn't a horse?" I said. He got very insulted and told me he certainly knew what a buffalo looked like.
Sure enough, they were just building our town' ecology center and had gotten a rescue buffalo. The park was not completed yet, so they just tied the buffalo to a tree on the side of the road. Now the ecology center is a thriving park, dedicated to the care of rescue animals. They got a mate for that buffalo (both are now gone) and they had many babies which were donated to other ecology centers.

One time I was driving on the turnpike and there was a
buffalo looking cow running across the road.
The state troopers were trying to catch it.
Turns out we have a local beefalo ranch and a few escaped.

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Once when we were crossing from North Carolina to Tennessee on I40, we had a two hour traffic delay. Word came down that they were shooting cows, but it was corrected to shooing cows, after a cattle truck overturned on the highway.


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[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

Add a 't' get one thing, remove it, much different thing.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

One time I was driving on the turnpike and there was a
buffalo looking cow running across the road.
The state troopers were trying to catch it.
Turns out we have a local beefalo ranch and a few escaped.

Once when we were crossing from North Carolina to Tennessee on I40, we had a two hour traffic delay. Word came down that they were shooting cows, but it was corrected to shooing cows, after a cattle truck overturned on the highway.




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