Elephant jumping from monorail into river

11/12/2009 10:29:36 PM

this thread delivers

11/12/2009 10:29:54 PM

you right.

11/12/2009 10:29:59 PM

yup, that's what that is

11/12/2009 10:30:18 PM

who is the artist

11/12/2009 10:34:22 PM

Da Vinci

11/12/2009 10:35:15 PM

I wonder where he was trying to go.

11/12/2009 10:35:22 PM

A true visionary.

11/12/2009 10:35:49 PM

Quote :

"No ticket."

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11/12/2009 10:38:02 PM

Quote :

"Tuffi (c. 1947 - 1989) was a female circus elephant that became famous in Germany in 1950 when she jumped from the suspended monorail in Wuppertal into the river below. On 21 July 1950 the circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, then 3 years old, take the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal, as a marketing gag. The elephant apparently did not enjoy the ride, trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell some 5 meters down into the Wupper river, suffering only minor injuries. A panic had broken out in the wagon and some passengers were injured. Althoff helped the elephant out of the water. Both the circus director and the official who had allowed the ride were fired. Tuffi was sold to Cirque Alexis Gruß in 1968; she died there in 1989. To this day, the location of the incident, between the stations Alter Markt and Adlerbrücke in Wuppertal, is marked with a painted elephant on a house wall. The Wuppertal tourist information keeps an assortment of Tuffi-related souvenirs. In 1970 Marguerita Eckel and Ernst-Andreas Ziegler published a Children's picture book about the incident, named Tuffi und die Schwebebahn."

11/12/2009 11:00:17 PM

Someone needs to post the Simpsons monorail song.

/obligatory

11/12/2009 11:01:59 PM

I am not amused.

11/12/2009 11:21:55 PM

that pic is WAAAY more than 5 meters.

11/12/2009 11:57:47 PM

I'm tired of these motherfucking elephants on this motherfucking monorail!!!!

11/13/2009 12:05:21 AM

i don't see it.


oh nooooooooooooooow i see it

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

11/13/2009 12:06:57 AM

I was already aware of this incident. I think I've reached the end of the internet. Or perhaps life itself.

11/13/2009 2:56:45 AM

11/13/2009 5:31:35 AM

i nominate this thread for a TWWy award. cause it delivers exactly as promised. rare for tww.

hey we should have TWWy awards, that'd be kinda neat for a day or 2

11/13/2009 6:40:59 AM

i saw this last night on the travel channel, or history or something

11/13/2009 8:13:57 AM

11/13/2009 8:22:29 AM

Quote :

"i nominate this thread for a TWWy award."

you mean, the Tee-Wees?

11/13/2009 1:58:13 PM

If we are talking about threads that deliver, I'd like to nominate my "Oprah peeing for 10 minutes" thread:

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11/13/2009 2:03:42 PM

at first I was like "whoa does that elephant have a wooden leg?!"

but then I realized he was jumping head first, not rear first like I initially thought.

11/13/2009 2:07:16 PM

Elephants never jump rear first.

11/13/2009 2:09:03 PM

I, too, watched the Travel channel last night.

11/13/2009 2:14:24 PM

Tuffy jumps from monorail into river



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11/13/2009 2:48:46 PM

lol

11/13/2009 3:56:10 PM