I found this oddly intersting... let's hang an elefant! great missuse of rail equipment.

[Mouse]

I was browseing around a post-mortem photography forum I belong to and someone posted this story.. the picture attached is amazing, which is why I had to check it out... really disturbing.. but the story is just odd

GoTricities.com > 1916 Elephant Hanging Still Haunts Erwin, TN


grrr... wont let me edit the title. oh well.

 

[Bendixontherails]

wow... I mean... wow.

Aside from the fact that someone actually thought to HANG an elephant, what astounds me most is the RR let them borrow a crane to do it.

 

[Mouse]

what amazes me is that the townspeople got so up in arms about a lil hobo traveler being killed via elephant foot.

 

[doombear]

usually i root for the bums, but...elefants revenge! though this red fellow was just picked the wrong place and time to be a dick. i guess the elefant just had enough, decided it was time to strike back. poor buddy.

 

[Loaf]

If some person smacked me on the head with a stick as I was eating and I weighed 5 tons, I'd stomp him too. Elephants are known to take action against people who harm or attempt to harm them or other elephants.

 

[CholoMcScumbag]

poor mary she was just pissed that the guy kept smacking her with a stick. people are stupid sometimes. its obviously a bad idea to keep an animal that can weigh over a few tons.

 

[Whiteyisacommiefaggot]

And people wonder why I don't like the south.

 

[bote]

the bastards

 

[dirty_rotten_squatter]

this is disgusting, I hope the people who did it died a very slow painful death I heard about this but never saw pictures of it..sickening

 

[the wizard]

rip mary

 

[usuallyonthefloorsomewher]

and im sure they hung it )vs. shooting it), just to sell tickets to 3,000 crazed spectators

 

[Monkeywrench]

Gross.

Elephants were killed all sorts of ways back in the day. People didn't give a shit back then.
One time Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant with an AC current just so he could try and discredit Nikolai Tesla.

 

[Raging Bird]

"Others claimed Kingsport residents were headed to Erwin with a cannon to blow her up. "

incredible

 

[nitepeepole]

that's fukkng wacky

 

[gregk]

animal cruelity is sick! elephants are still treated bad to this day. and im sure their not the only ones. but ya im sure we wont see any hanging again..

 

[Cardboard]

I'm sorry, I'm all for animal right and everything, but this is fucking hillarious, and in a way, awesome.
I mean, it's over and done with now, I hope people don't do anything like this again, but I'm glad it happened at least once, and that there are pictures for us all to enjoy.
Great.

 

[Cardboard]

and oh shit... she was buried near the tracks?!?
1 million crust points for the first person to ride that train to her grave, and harvest some bones.

 

[wartomods]

yeah i think it is hilarious

 

[Hottboxx]

wow thats somthing you dont see everyday

 

[st1tch]

This story made me really sad. I lost a bit more hope in humanity again.