Elephant Killed on Mexican Highway During Elephant Appreciation Week. Cross post, please

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See below from Barbara, CCFJ member. Elephant Indra was trying to flee her captors in the wee hours of the morning. She did not make it, as she had no where safe to go. Please think of poor Indra today. And, do not forget Jenny, the grievously confined elephant in our own backyard, who has a safe haven offered to her, but the Dallas Zoo won't allow her to reach it. Commemorate Elephant Appreciation Week (Sept 21-27) by: --- Joining Jenny Advocates at Dallas City Council on Wednesday from 9 - 10:30 AM.--- Mailing a "Retire Jenny" e-Card or real greeting card (even better) to the Mayor, City Council, City Manager, and Parks and Rec director today. For their individual email and physical mailing addresses, please go to: www.concernedcitizensforjenny.netRemind the City of

Dallas that Jenny Supporters are not going away and that we continue to stand by Jenny, who is languishing her life away in misery in a tiny enclosure at the Dallas Zoo. Had CCFJ not stood up for Jenny this summer, Jenny could easily have

been in Indra's place. But, the fight to SAVE JENNY is not over.MargaretFounder, Concerned Citizens for Jennyhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426561,00.html

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Bus Crashes Into 5-Ton Escaped Elephant on Mexican Highway

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

 

 

 

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Sept. 23: An elephant that was hit by a bus lies at freeway piramides north of Mexico City.

 

 

MEXICO

CITY — A five-ton elephant escaped from a circus and wandered onto a

busy highway, where it was hit by a bus and died on Tuesday.

State

officials say bus driver Tomas Lopez, 49, also was killed and at least

four passengers were hospitalized after the pre-dawn collision in

Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City.

Mexico

State police spokesman Juan Sanchez said the elephant escaped from its

cage at the Circo Union, but he declined to give any other details. He

said officials were investigating.

The state-funded

Notimex news agency reported that the elephant named Indra escaped as

its keeper arrived to feed it, knocking down a metal door that led to

the street and wandering through two neighborhoods before trying to

cross the highway.

Small circuses have used the name "Circo Union" in Mexico and it was not immediately clear which was involved.

Last

month, a 500-pound lion escaped from a private zoo owned by a local

lawmaker in southern Mexico. The animal killed two dogs and a pig and

attacked a woman and child on a donkey before it was sedated and caught.