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After 12 years of torture in a Hawaiian circus, Tyke the Elephant managed to escape during a live performance in August of 1994. Injuring staff on his way out, police shot him 86 times in the street, which eventually killed him. The look in his eye tells a thousand stories.
JustTakeItEasyMan
Step aside Harambe
jjm152
This happened 20 years ago. Also the elephant killed a man and injured 2 others before the cops were forced to take him down.
CaughtRedheaded1
I️ am so sad.
milliedollar
They once fully hung an elephant in Coney Island once cos it killed his trainer. People are the worst.
Idontknowwatiexpected
The fear is those eyes but no one can hurt him now. Rest well Tyke.
AtsaMattaForYou
Stampy No!
TableLamp
Silver lining! He's at peace now and cant be hurt again
intashu
Isn't this one of the reasons we have animal control now, which have stock of large animal tranquilizers. (not typically for elephants but.)
dougbest727
The horrible things we humans do to these beautiful creatures honestly breaks my very soul.
NotoriousBOB
It was horrific &most definitely the result of years of abuse by its keepers.Sadly The police had little choice. Tyke had killed 1&was loose
ArdvarkRoticeryChicken
Go back 20 years when circuses were more popular and there was an average of 13 elephants going mad per year in the U.S. (cont...)
ArdvarkRoticeryChicken
and there where always human casualties when it happened. These are powerful animals with an amazing range of emotion. Should never be caged
Theamazingpop
That is the most heartbreaking thing I think I have ever seen. Rest in peace Tyke. Humans failed you.
Munchman347
Heavily photoshopped for points...http://files.ctctcdn.com/d7bc9178001/959534be-a97a-4387-b05a-13fbb0e2d933.jpg
Theexistentialist
Circus was in Hawai‘i, not a Hawaiian circus. That was a tragic day.
Grrrg
Uhhh...
LucianKane
"I just want to be free! I just want to go home! Please, stop hurting me, I just want to go home!"
jimella
Tyke was a she
PunishMentor
I remember they couldn't bring Tyke down with their sidearms... guessing it would go a little differently today
Counterfit
Yeah, police don't generally carry a wristbreaker capable of downing an elephant.
Attacker732
Not necessarily. Sidearms aren't much changed in power from then, just capacity and reliability. Rifles still might not be more available.
JefferyLenz
I was there that day... It was terrifying having a raging elephant running directly at you. She didn't deserve the life or death she got.
TheGuyWithTheAnswers
SirMickey
... F@#$ man...
AbidiAbida
What is the name of the circus? Also, all circus involving animals should just be banned. Zoos should be an open area like a safari.
UnluckiestSquid
I went to this circus as a kid. We shut down the circus and will ban all circus animals. Real tragedy that Tyke suffered in life and death
StarryPlough
Wouldnt half the animals just kill each other then?
IjustChangedMyNameToProveAPoint
No, they'd all live in harmony! Haven't you watched Lion King?
Ihavewaytoomanyfavoritestosort
Most zoos are fine, they don't need to be an open area as long as they're given proper enrichment (not saying lock em in cages either)
AbidiAbida
Human tortured elephant. Elephant escaped and the human blame the elephant and killed it. Oh yeah, we are a shitty living being...
fulminatrix
The elephant was horrifically abused, but OP failed to mention she killed her trainer during the escape. They had to protect the public.
bilalss4
Well I mean if a crazed elephant is running around injuring people, what else are you gonna do? I wouldn't blame police (although maybe 1/2
bilalss4
Their method was questionable) blame the circus for keeping it and treating it terribly in the first place
Biteenplatre
The eyes only tell that he's being shot. Even a fairly well treated animal would be terrified when getting shot
Munchman347
'Torture?' Hawaii has all the animal protection laws found on the mainland. Unless someone was prosecuted for animal abuse, stop it. 1/2
Munchman347
2/2 It's OK to keep a mule in a small stall and have it pull a plow in the hot sun, but making an elephant stand up in a tent is torture?...
fulminatrix
The animal was tortured. Her trainer beat elephants until they screamed in pain and tried to get away. Elephants! She killed him.
beatschubser
God, I hate people...
Clockwork0813
If animals had smartphones and took a vid of themselves eating a dear fetus out of the womb, you’d hate them just the same.
dougbest727
Only animals that are aware of cruelty and continue to do it .dumb dumb people..
the4getful
People are beautiful, they actually have the gift to protect. What you hate are certain type of people. A**holes sh*t over everything.
canderousbossk
People are the worst animals
fulminatrix
Additional facts: Tyke was a female, who killed her trainer and critically wounded a groomer during the escape. The trainer was known to 1/2
Grrrg
I'm glad she at least got to kill the trainer.
fulminatrix
abuse elephants to the point that they would scream and try to avoid the blows, and would scream at just the sight of him thereafter. 2/2
SmedC
Was about to link Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" as a comparison (elephant going berserk for no reason). Instead: Fuck that trainer.
whatafoolbelieves
He's so wide eyed and scared , this is horrifying
YaReal
That’s more the look of insanity, but I hear tmya
YaReal
Hear *ya sorry. On mobile.
shaniocheis
It's photoshopped, you can google tyke the elephant for the original.
WhistlingButt
Yea that eye woud be about the size of a human head and no elephant has eyes that big...
BobHacks
http://files.ctctcdn.com/d7bc9178001/959534be-a97a-4387-b05a-13fbb0e2d933.jpg Is this it?
shaniocheis
Looks the same, just colourized. I could be wrong, horrific either way. The article I read might have had a slightly different picture.
MicroOneo
This is real animal cruelty right here, none of that PETA bullshit.
Reviire
To be fair, PETA does some pretty serious stuff. They're both bad, and should be treated the same.
MayorofLoserville
The image shown is from PETA. https://www.peta.org/features/tyke-elephant-video-death/
Zigor22
HARAMBE WASNT THE FIRST
SharkyMcSnarkface
Nobody cares about the gorilla anymore m8. His meme is about as ded as he is.
DirtyParrot
Totally agree
mousemarie94
Yes and PETA...themselves.
ThatTransformersDude
Fuuuuck Peta
Reviire
Actually I think i mis-interpreted what you meant.
Skulties1
Peta campaigns against the use of elephants in circuses https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/circuses/elephants-broken-spiri
PepperPeanutsVagenis
PETA is a fucking farse.
heyheyheylisten
Which I’m sure they’ll get around to after they have all he streets named Elephant renamed or some bullshit.
DrewBerg
They also kill more animals than any pound.
damnationnodonationnosalvation
Pretty unfair to say that, they dont have the resources to take care of them. If they had Im sure they would
shinylukario1
Or they could stop stealing animals? That would work too.
caudata
PETA has an avg annual revenue of over $30,000,000 if they don't lack resources. They lack will.
leonbloodbane
They bring in so much money that they could take care of them but instead steal and kill people’s pets, there was even a news story on it
DrewBerg
It isn't unfair. they kill a lot of animals. That's just stating a fact. They are a multi-million dollar NPO. They CHOOSE to kill.
4TWookie
They literally have been caught systematically advertising care then killing the pets turned over to them only hours after
DomineSatanas
Well they stole animals to kill them, so I'm not sure it's a money thing.
Kovahjin
They have the money. They'd just rather spend it on shaming people via marketing campaigns that bring nothing but shame to real activists.
leonbloodbane
Isn’t it like 80 or something percent of all animals that go to peta get euthanized?
DrewBerg
I don't know the number but it is surprisingly high.
AgolfHiller
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alittletime
Nameanothernonprofitthathasa90%deathcount.jpg
FbombsAway
Make a Wish foundation....
spicytoblerone
CuriousSoul365
We need to make a team of such talented ppl
CrabPeopleTasteLikeCrabTalkLikePeople
Not even mad... you saw the opportunity and took it
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
Calm down Peta
Sturdycrotch
But Looiisss
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
Are we really doing this?
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
coolwaterNJ
What the actual fuck. Is his trunk split open? Who would do this to an animal? This is heartbreaking even if it is 30 years old
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CziltangBrone
The trainer who abused the animal was crushed to death first, IIRC. Sad the animal had to be put down after that.
Skulties1
Bullet wounds.
Illsaysomethingjusttomakeyoumad
It was a performing animal decided it's had enough of hell and went on a rampage. It was shot to death but it look a long time. Tragic.
CziltangBrone
The police only had handguns and shotguns at first, and nobody knew where to shoot the animal to kill it humanely. It was a horrorshow.
clevermotherfucker
Looks more like a bleeding bullet wound to me.
coolwaterNJ
23 years
Sansaucundoute88
It's its ear
StarryPlough
No?
CouldBeADickPic9000
Here, we see an actual abused animal. Meanwhile, PETA parades around movie props to try and get people's attention.
HarleyQuinnRomance
They also kill dogs and throw them in dumpster behind shelters to convince people that they’re not following protocols.
KyrosXIII
The only way PETA'd use this picture is to say that this is what elephant shearing does. Look at all that blood!
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
In between killing any animal they get their hands on.
TheActualDonKnotts
Just be glad PETA used a movie prop and didn't actually mangle a lamb just to take a picture.
NuclearWinterIsComing
Hey now, they're advocating against real animal abuse! Like shearing sheep or owning cats.
somethingsomethingwittyhere
Owning a cat is human abuse.
ThatCanadianViking
Or murdering cows for milk.
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NuclearWinterIsComing
That sucks. I'm sure animal cruelty happens in just about every field where they are the product but shearing sheep isn't a common one.
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Maetira
You think people on this site are too stupid for sarcasm or think it's low-hanging fruit and downvoting you so you'd try harder?
Maetira
Well, fucking RIP for that then, I guess.
ihateyoubecauseofhowsmartyouthinkyouare
oof sorry that didn’t work out
Maetira
People on this site are also quick to down-vote people who talk shit, seems fair. Way of the game, right?