Circus elephant shot in drive-by shot in Miss.[sic]
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Tupelo, Miss.What kind of mouthbreathing oxygen thief takes a potshot at a captive elephant? I mean, really. Now, it was most likely a handgun round, in which case it probably didn't penetrate very much, so the animal wasn't seriously hurt, but still. A drive-by shooting? On an elephant? I'm guessing that frosty malt beverages were involved. "Bet you can't hit that!" "The hell I can't!"
Circus spokeswoman Melinda Hartline says the elephant was not seriously hurt Tuesday. She says no other animals were harmed.
I'm thinking we have the makings of a classic beer commercial here. "It's 2AM. You just shot an animal the size of a dumptruck. It's [cheap beer name] time!"
That is all.
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Just sprayed Miller out my nose...
....don't judge me, it's 5 o'clock somewhere ain't it!
"What kind of mouthbreathing oxygen thief takes a potshot at a captive elephant?"
Possibly the kind that thinks if it goads a circus elephant into going on a rampage, the result will be laws against using elephants in circuses.
Now, I have absolutely no evidence that this mouthbreather was so motivated. But it is an answer to your question, and given some of the things that the true lunatic-fringe animal-rights activists have done in the past, it would not be out of character for them.
A much more likely answer is that it was just some stupid, drunk teenager, out on a joyride, who was too soused to comprehend that what he was doing was illegal, much less why it was wrong.
Paging Major General Sedgwick, white courtesy telephone...
I wonder how many times he missed before he hit it? My guess if 5.
Gerry
A really annoyed Elephant can do about 30 mph for the longest 30 seconds of your life. And in a car / Elephant contest your car loses
Thoose were lucky dumbasses
NotDilbert
AT wins the Tam Award for obscure historical reference.
As a former resident of that area, I can tell you it's more likely T-Dawg and Ray-Ray were involved than Bubba and Cletus.
If we're going to engage in stereotypes, let's at least use the right ones :D
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