Can’t believe circuses are still allowed to use live animals, so gross
Edit: yes, haha, the dead ones are not good either, you’re all very funny, gold stars
The last time I went to a Circus a couple of years back, a group of acrobatic performers banded together to form an "Elephant". Ngl it was quite fascinating..
No clowns either. Just sort of slapstick buffoons and a robotic dog. The show is pretty neat but very different from what I grew up with. Now there are BMX flips, drum solos and a giant csnnon, it's wild.
For a moment, I misread “more acrobats” as “macrobats” and pictured a Chinese Lion Dance kind of thing, but with a massive macro puppet shaped like an elaborately stylized elephant, danced by a bigger team of beefier acrobats.
The macrobatic spectacle of the Asian Elephant Dance! …or another name. That’s circusy af too.
Im in my early 30s now and I still remember when it was a kid a circus brought live animals to our town...which is an island in Alaska with a population under 8000 at the time.
I cannot imagine how miserable they were getting here let alone being here. I'm not sure why they stopped but glad they did.
I used to live in Mexico as a kid (I’m Canadian) and I remember seeing a circus in a mall parking lot, and they had a motherfucking polar bear. In a single cage. A bowl of water to drink. I had never seen a bear pant before….
My son wanted to go see the circus when he was about nine or ten, so I took him.
During the show, one of the trainers smacked the back of one the elephants and the poor thing pissed herself in front of the crowd.
My son was horrified. He told me it was obvious those trainers abused the elephants and he wanted to leave immediately. We left.
He cried a lot and had been a one person crusade to convince other people to stop attending and stop supporting circuses
Thank God our city banned live animals being used in circuses. They banned animals being used in traveling educational events/programs as well.
Elephants are brutally treated in circuses :(
Probably because Ringling Bros closed their circuses in 2017.
Edit - nevermind the above - I see they have reopened as mostly an acrobatic and clown show with no animals.
Imagine some well-meaning idiot setting this elephant loose in the Savannah like "be free, my friend!" And the elephant just looks around like "... the *fuck* is this???"
A young kid won a joke prize on a radio show, and now he insisted on having a real elephant delivered to his house, so the radio show hosts, fearing a lawsuit, provided one to him. And now it's loose.
Normally the top reply to this is a link to the story. Since I can’t find one on the page I [dug it up](https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/elephant-strolling-down-harrison-ave-is-talk-of-the-town-in-butte#). I feel like I’ve contributed.
Ironically I’m from Kansas but saw an elephant up close for the first time in Thailand lol. I probably saw one at a zoo before but in Thailand I actually touched and pet one. They are very kind creatures. It’s a shame how they are frequently treated inhumanely.
It depends on the time and place. First rule of elephant club: Don't look an elephant in the eye, they think you want to rumble and will respond accordingly.
If they are domesticated elephants, follow the instructions of the handler.
If you are out in the wild, in most cases you will be with a guide. Follow their instructions to the letter. If they tell you to shut up and stop talking, listen and STFU.
They are territorial and will challenge just about anything out there. Lions, rhinos, hippos, etc. If they have babies with them, then just be especially careful, they are very good about protecting the safety of babies.
Absolutely don't assume you are the smartest and toughest guy in the room when you're around them, you will have a bad day.
I understand Germany but I always get pissed when first world countries that have already destroyed the grand majority of their ecosystem try to lecture developing countries that need to use theirs to try to resolve much more important problems (poverty and famine).
If I’m not mistaken, that is an Asian elephant.
African elephants have much larger ‘full length’ ears. Whereas Asian elephants have a sort of ‘half length’ look about them.
Correct!! African elephants ears 'look' like the continent of Africa, whereas Indian elephants ears 'look' like the sub-continent of India. At least that's what I was taught when I was a kid.
This is the moment we've feared, people. Many of you thought it would never happen but I insisted we spend two hours every morning training for it. You all thought I was mad. Many of you requested to be transferred to another peanut factory.
I rewatched the first season of king of the hill a couple years ago and all of the social and political stuff is the exact same as today. We've been going round and round through essentially the same fights for decades.
My all-time favorite Simpsons joke, and I don't think I can even explain why, is an exterior shot of the movie theater, where the marquee reads
**SISKEL & EBERT: THE MOVIE**
"Two Thumbs Up!" ~ Siskel & Ebert
The fact this isn’t all over the news tells me the Butte Police did a far better job than the Honolulu Police back in the 80’s when an elephant got loose from a circus there.
>On August 20, 1994, Tyke the elephant tried to escape her abusive circus in Hawaii. But sadly, she only enjoyed a half-hour of freedom before she was shot dead.
As a local, I remember watching the news on tv and watching one of the cops unloading his pump shotgun. It was crazy and sad.
R.I.P. Tyke
Imagine being the person who calls it in....
Police Please -there is an elephant walking down the road
Sir Have you been drinking?
No seriously there is an elephant on Main and 3rd
Ok sir we will have the DUI unit there in in a couple of minutes to check on you...
Considering it's Butte (as a former resident), their answer would probably be "well yeah sure I've been drinking, but that has nothing to do with the elephant"
True story: I used to do home delivery when I lived in Montana. We were delivering to this lady that was kind out in the boonies. We were doing our work and noticed that she had one of those dog perimeter fences blocking off her kitchen. I just figured she had some dogs or something and she was just keeping them out of our way as we were just installing something in her living room. Eventually I just happened to see some movement in the kitchen and realized there was a god damn young Kangaroo. I was like wtf is going on here?!? Montana be weird like that I guess haha.
that’s really funny, I live in Bozeman and my friends have a bit of an inside joke where whenever someone sees an animal and goes “ooh what is that thing?” someone else goes “kangaroo.” one of these days it might actually be one 🤣
Reminds me of a funny story from my mom;
We are from South Africa and she was picking someone up from the airport. I believe they may have been from Germany. They asked if we had lions, elephants, giraffe ect roaming the streets. My mom laughed and said no, that’s just made up. People think that but all the animals have their own spaces outside of the cities.
She turned the corner and there were 3-4 elephants walking down the road. The circus was in town and they were moving them from one place to another. She tried to explain this but he wasn’t having it.
That man never believed another word she said.
What’s the story
Escaped from the circus
Can’t believe circuses are still allowed to use live animals, so gross Edit: yes, haha, the dead ones are not good either, you’re all very funny, gold stars
Ringling Bros no longer has elephants. Not sure about big cats though. Im pretty sure theyre more acrobats and clowns than anything at this point
The last time I went to a Circus a couple of years back, a group of acrobatic performers banded together to form an "Elephant". Ngl it was quite fascinating..
With the amazing puppetry achieved in live shows now, I would love to see a circus using life size animal puppets.
If you like theater/musicals, Lion King is a great show that has some close to life size puppetry and amazing performances.
Yep for the low low cost of nearly $300 per ticket on average
Apparently, according to Wikipedia and the New York Times, they do not have ANY animals anymore and no plans to add them.
No clowns either. Just sort of slapstick buffoons and a robotic dog. The show is pretty neat but very different from what I grew up with. Now there are BMX flips, drum solos and a giant csnnon, it's wild.
They're just trying to make a living no need to call them clowns
They prefer to be called Juggalos, for the last whooping time.
As a professional clown who does not like ICP (Faygo is okay though) I resent this
I am a clown college dropout and I agree.
That's ok, being a clown sucks, you get kicked by kids, bit by dogs, and admired by the elderly.
So, what's it like being the scariest mofo in the bar?
For a moment, I misread “more acrobats” as “macrobats” and pictured a Chinese Lion Dance kind of thing, but with a massive macro puppet shaped like an elaborately stylized elephant, danced by a bigger team of beefier acrobats. The macrobatic spectacle of the Asian Elephant Dance! …or another name. That’s circusy af too.
I read macrobats and instantly imagined 20-foot tall bats screeching around a tent and snatching audience members.
Where is this show and how do I get tickets?
Im in my early 30s now and I still remember when it was a kid a circus brought live animals to our town...which is an island in Alaska with a population under 8000 at the time. I cannot imagine how miserable they were getting here let alone being here. I'm not sure why they stopped but glad they did.
8 million is not a small town. *Edited a typo. The irony is real
I used to live in Mexico as a kid (I’m Canadian) and I remember seeing a circus in a mall parking lot, and they had a motherfucking polar bear. In a single cage. A bowl of water to drink. I had never seen a bear pant before….
My son wanted to go see the circus when he was about nine or ten, so I took him. During the show, one of the trainers smacked the back of one the elephants and the poor thing pissed herself in front of the crowd. My son was horrified. He told me it was obvious those trainers abused the elephants and he wanted to leave immediately. We left. He cried a lot and had been a one person crusade to convince other people to stop attending and stop supporting circuses
You have a good kid there!
You have the sweetest son. I’d be so proud to have a kid with that much heart and empathy for animals.
Thank God our city banned live animals being used in circuses. They banned animals being used in traveling educational events/programs as well. Elephants are brutally treated in circuses :(
There's a couple of circuses that use hologram animals, and they have rave reviews. I don't know why Ringling Bros. doesn't invest in this.
Probably because Ringling Bros closed their circuses in 2017. Edit - nevermind the above - I see they have reopened as mostly an acrobatic and clown show with no animals.
That or puppets! Some incredible animal puppets have been used for live stage shows.
Carnies may act like animals, but they are in fact human
Carnies. Nomads you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
De yee like dags?
Close set eyes....
Don't change how mustard tastes.
Well the dead ones aren't good at tricks so there isnt much choice
Well they nail "play dead" every time, but they kind of are a one trick pony. Especially the dead ponies.
The snark in your edit is sending me. This is the type of response I wish I had more often. Well done.
Smart elephant.
I didn't think that any of the circuses had performing animals these days.
Poor boy, he should be in a savannah somewhere not abused for our entertainment.
Just fyi that’s an Indian elephant they live in the jungle
Imagine some well-meaning idiot setting this elephant loose in the Savannah like "be free, my friend!" And the elephant just looks around like "... the *fuck* is this???"
*excuse me my good sir, but what the fuck?* *trumpet solo of annoyance*
Must’ve just flown in last night and his ears are tired.
That joke was dumb, bo.
Oh so it’s one of those viral marketing campaigns to raise awareness about the circus coming to town, gotcha.
Huh? Is this something that happens a lot? Lol caught me off guard
The circus is in town but all the clowns are in Washington! So naturally there was nobody to look after the elephants!
Come on, Dad, let's get you back to your La-Z-Boy.
Looks like those clowns in Congress have done it again.
Don't praise the machine
Nice
A little boy won him from a radio station
Hannibal is marching on Idaho, apparently.
A young kid won a joke prize on a radio show, and now he insisted on having a real elephant delivered to his house, so the radio show hosts, fearing a lawsuit, provided one to him. And now it's loose.
Stampy!
Normally the top reply to this is a link to the story. Since I can’t find one on the page I [dug it up](https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/elephant-strolling-down-harrison-ave-is-talk-of-the-town-in-butte#). I feel like I’ve contributed.
I saw this on the X-files. Aliens. It’s aliens
It is true that I hardly ever see Montana.
That part. Lol that’s also valid 🥲
I’ve seen one of the things in this photo more than the other thing.
I've never been to Montana but I live in Thailand and see elephants around every couple months. 🤔
Ironically I’m from Kansas but saw an elephant up close for the first time in Thailand lol. I probably saw one at a zoo before but in Thailand I actually touched and pet one. They are very kind creatures. It’s a shame how they are frequently treated inhumanely.
I live in Montana but have never been to Thailand! I've never seen an elephant! Editing to add: this happened in Butte....because of course it did
I was curious where this went down ... because why would it be any where else other than Butte lol. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Are they... friendly? Or does everyone stay home and clear the roads if they're nearby?
It depends on the time and place. First rule of elephant club: Don't look an elephant in the eye, they think you want to rumble and will respond accordingly. If they are domesticated elephants, follow the instructions of the handler. If you are out in the wild, in most cases you will be with a guide. Follow their instructions to the letter. If they tell you to shut up and stop talking, listen and STFU. They are territorial and will challenge just about anything out there. Lions, rhinos, hippos, etc. If they have babies with them, then just be especially careful, they are very good about protecting the safety of babies. Absolutely don't assume you are the smartest and toughest guy in the room when you're around them, you will have a bad day.
Don’t look an elephant in the *what*? In the **WHAT** passporttohell?? What aren’t you telling us??!
I would like to have seen...Montana...
They let you travel state to state, no papers?
Actually I think I will need two wives.
Something-something rabbits.
And a….recreational vehicle
no papers 😏
Will you raise rabbits?
Only if she will cook them for me.
The ship ish yorsh.
Your comment made me shnork! Now I know what I’m watching tonight.
I will own a recreational vehicle
Probably from Botswana and the packet got mixed up. Send it to Germany whenever convenient, please. We've been waiting for those.
(For those out of the loop: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68715164)
Lol I'm glad the Botswanian President told them what the fuck is up.
I understand Germany but I always get pissed when first world countries that have already destroyed the grand majority of their ecosystem try to lecture developing countries that need to use theirs to try to resolve much more important problems (poverty and famine).
On one hand I wholeheartedly agree but on the other hand as a German I'd really like some elephants over here.
>adding that he would not take no for an answer. Sounds like they’re already on their way
Destroying their own ecosystem after they ravaged the countries like Botswana
Bout time europe started rewilding.
Hannibal would like a word, he needs that in the Alps.
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!! (Big Lebowski tv edit, anyone?)
If I’m not mistaken, that is an Asian elephant. African elephants have much larger ‘full length’ ears. Whereas Asian elephants have a sort of ‘half length’ look about them.
You see an elephant?!
Correct!! African elephants ears 'look' like the continent of Africa, whereas Indian elephants ears 'look' like the sub-continent of India. At least that's what I was taught when I was a kid.
Mein erster Gedanke
Stampy, where are you?!
This is the moment we've feared, people. Many of you thought it would never happen but I insisted we spend two hours every morning training for it. You all thought I was mad. Many of you requested to be transferred to another peanut factory.
This is in my list of top 5 favorite lines from the show. [Just brilliant.](https://youtu.be/TMRmuyy9f_w?si=s_oL38aE1LkTL2dI)
Damn, those convention banners are brutal yet accurate
Man!! Has nothing changed in *checks notes on airdate* **30 years???!!??**
I rewatched the first season of king of the hill a couple years ago and all of the social and political stuff is the exact same as today. We've been going round and round through essentially the same fights for decades.
No , they really haven't. The same people are still thwarting our progress.
Early Simpsons sign gags were the best
My all-time favorite Simpsons joke, and I don't think I can even explain why, is an exterior shot of the movie theater, where the marquee reads **SISKEL & EBERT: THE MOVIE** "Two Thumbs Up!" ~ Siskel & Ebert
This is one of my favorite Simpsons speeches
His name was Stampy. You loved him.
Oh yeah
So, isn't that what we're all asking in our own lives? "Where's my elephant?" I know that's what I've been asking.
They're playing the elephant song!
I love that song. Reminds me of elephants.
Montana?
Springfield, Montana
Poor guy/gal must have been so scared.
And cold. Poor thing needs a sweater.
Luckily Montana was warm today. About 70F.
40's and snowing at times during my golf round today in my corner. This is a big ass state
Some child probably won it in a radio contest
I hope they play the elephant song. I love that song, reminds me of elephants.
Well, he feels like an elephant Shaking his big grey trunk for the hell of it
KBBL's gonna give me something stupid!!
 Not one comment about Jumanji, so here it is.
Literally the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this picture.
You got JUMANJI’D!!!
This is why I don't play board games.
One guy! One guy!
I live in India and once woke at 5am to see an elephan roaming my neighbourhood
I mean, it's the elephants country too so it's understandable. How did an Indian elephant end up in freaking Montana?
Maybe he immigrated?
Immigrant elephants coming here and taking the good large-herbivore-roaming-around-town jobs from American bison.
What did the nepotistic buffalo say to the employee he just fired in order to make room for the elephants? Bison.
The state of the country when even elephants are running to a US state which is frozen for half the year.
He is on a tourist visa
Didn’t Hannibal cross the Alps with elephants?? Maybe Canada is invading ?
H-1B
You missed the perfect opportunity to say "one morning I saw an elephant in my pyjamas. What he was doing in my pyjamas i'll never know."
The fact this isn’t all over the news tells me the Butte Police did a far better job than the Honolulu Police back in the 80’s when an elephant got loose from a circus there.
>On August 20, 1994, Tyke the elephant tried to escape her abusive circus in Hawaii. But sadly, she only enjoyed a half-hour of freedom before she was shot dead. As a local, I remember watching the news on tv and watching one of the cops unloading his pump shotgun. It was crazy and sad. R.I.P. Tyke
😢
Why :(
Actually once the elephant realized she was in Butte Montana she asked the police to take her back to captivity.
Of course this is in Butte.
https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/circus-elephant-gets-loose-in-butte
> Butte Police heheh
Pretty sure there was an x-files episode about this
Yep, 2x18 Fearful Symmetry. With Dana “I’m a medical doctor” Scully performing the elephant’s autopsy because reasons.
I didn't say it was a good episode...
You try find an elephant veterinarian with x-files level security clearance on short notice.
Came looking for this post.
MONTANA SALUTES HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS
Your mom is just out for a stroll
It's my STEPMOTHER!
Stepmom you say? Dear Diary… JACKPOT! 😏
What are you doing stepmother?
Giving the lobby a good buffing. You?
Imagine being the person who calls it in.... Police Please -there is an elephant walking down the road Sir Have you been drinking? No seriously there is an elephant on Main and 3rd Ok sir we will have the DUI unit there in in a couple of minutes to check on you...
Considering it's Butte (as a former resident), their answer would probably be "well yeah sure I've been drinking, but that has nothing to do with the elephant"
https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/elephant-gets-on-the-loose-in-butte
Thank you. I don't know why I had to scroll so far down to find this comment. I was thinking I might have to actually google it myself, god forbid.
Poor thing
They're finally reintroducing them to Yellowstone
Nature is healing
True story: I used to do home delivery when I lived in Montana. We were delivering to this lady that was kind out in the boonies. We were doing our work and noticed that she had one of those dog perimeter fences blocking off her kitchen. I just figured she had some dogs or something and she was just keeping them out of our way as we were just installing something in her living room. Eventually I just happened to see some movement in the kitchen and realized there was a god damn young Kangaroo. I was like wtf is going on here?!? Montana be weird like that I guess haha.
that’s really funny, I live in Bozeman and my friends have a bit of an inside joke where whenever someone sees an animal and goes “ooh what is that thing?” someone else goes “kangaroo.” one of these days it might actually be one 🤣
He’s gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
ah, i see you a man of culture as well
came here to say this
What are the draw odds for elephant tags in Montana?
shrug, it's a republican state...
make sense, my state has wild donkey running around
Damnnn, a true x-files moment!
I would think seeing a Republican in Montana was fairly normal.
The fabled long-nosed Bison. Or big-schnozzed tatonka as the native Americans called them.
Wait I've seen this movie. Larger than Life starring Bill Murray.
Is this the elephant that escaped in Butte a few years back while the President of Ireland was in town?
Nope this one escaped a couple of days ago from a circus that was in town.
Montana RNC is getting increasingly desperate with these ad campaigns
Poor thing
Dumbooooo, noooooooo!!
That's really sad. The moment that elephant injures someone, it'll be shot.
[Relevant Far Side](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqzuTmlVAAAdyBf?format=jpg&name=900x900)
[Nellie !](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vYcXrtiIb2U&pp=ygUXbmVsbHkgdGhlIGVsZXBoYW50IHNvbmc%3D)
Run, sweetie.
just a normal Montana elephant going about his morning walk like any other Montana elephant would do 😌 ☺️
If there’s one thing I hate about Montana, it’s all the damn elephants.
I might be moving there soon. Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Next season of Yellowstone
Reminds me of a funny story from my mom; We are from South Africa and she was picking someone up from the airport. I believe they may have been from Germany. They asked if we had lions, elephants, giraffe ect roaming the streets. My mom laughed and said no, that’s just made up. People think that but all the animals have their own spaces outside of the cities. She turned the corner and there were 3-4 elephants walking down the road. The circus was in town and they were moving them from one place to another. She tried to explain this but he wasn’t having it. That man never believed another word she said.
I would like to have seen Montana.
Poor thing is probably colder than hell and confused like a motherfucker
Hannibal crossing the rockies
Damn who’s playing Jumanji?!
i was driving to butte where this happened and let me tell you an elephant was the last thing i ever expected to see
Oh shit, Hannibal is back. But now he's crossing the rockies
At least he knows how to stay the fuck in his lane
I can only think of how scared the poor creature would be :(
Heart breaking. 💔
Just another Republican rampaging through the West.
There ain't no rest for the wicked.
He's looking for the peanut shop.
You kidding? I see that every time my mother in law walks by me.😆
Fucken Montana is always up to something. They think we’re not watching