How To Hang An Elephant
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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
The year was 1916, the location was Tennessee and the reason why was to try and smooth over some bad publicity from a circus animal that killed a human :
The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the potentially ruinous situation was to kill the elephant in public.
On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, she was transported by rail to Erwin, Tennessee where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town’s children) assembled in the Clinchfield railroad yard.
The elephant was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane.
Not surprisingly, children ran screaming.
