I wrote this blog back in 2015, and recently went back to update it.
Back in mid-2015....over the weekend here in Hessen (my German state).....we had an old retired guy who got up early on Saturday (6AM) and started a walk in the woods near his place.....coming face-to-face with an elephant.
Things occurred....no witnesses.....and the elephant whooped the guy.....killing him.
We are left to wonder about this meeting between the two. Maybe the German thought it was a pet-elephant....or that it was just his imagination.
Police went to investigate this, and this was 'merely' an escapee from a local circus, and might have been mad or angry. The old guy might have said something or worn some funny bright clothing. Maybe the old guy had some kind of Old Spice stuff on him and had a funny smell.
Anyway....the old guy is dead and political folks got pretty hyped-up.
In Germany.....you never let an event like this go by.....without making trouble.
So the Green Party Environmental Minister for the state-level sai that there needs to be a ban on wild animals in circuses that travel around the state (bears, elephants, wild big cats, etc). Chimps seem ok, along with camels and horses.....guerrillas might be a problem.....and I imagine boas and big snakes might be in conflict too.
The affect here? Well.....if you take away elephants and lions/tigers and bears.....that's the end of most circuses that might travel through the state.
All of this....over an old retired guy encountering one single elephant on a back trail of some forest? Yeah, that's the emphasis of this story. If it'd been a wolf? The Green Guys would be in total fear of getting unfriendly with the free-wolf community.
Police went to investigate this, and this was 'merely' an escapee from a local circus, and might have been mad or angry. The old guy might have said something or worn some funny bright clothing. Maybe the old guy had some kind of Old Spice stuff on him and had a funny smell.
Anyway....the old guy is dead and political folks got pretty hyped-up.
In Germany.....you never let an event like this go by.....without making trouble.
So the Green Party Environmental Minister for the state-level sai that there needs to be a ban on wild animals in circuses that travel around the state (bears, elephants, wild big cats, etc). Chimps seem ok, along with camels and horses.....guerrillas might be a problem.....and I imagine boas and big snakes might be in conflict too.
The affect here? Well.....if you take away elephants and lions/tigers and bears.....that's the end of most circuses that might travel through the state.
All of this....over an old retired guy encountering one single elephant on a back trail of some forest? Yeah, that's the emphasis of this story. If it'd been a wolf? The Green Guys would be in total fear of getting unfriendly with the free-wolf community.
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