On Jan 17, 5:09*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:05:58 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote:
..[elephant]
I didn't actually walk into it but got within maybe 20 meters. It was
at an animal park that had been closed and empty for several years

So where did it come from?

Gunner

IIRC it had been sold and the new exhibit wasn't ready, or something
like that, so the original owner took it in. He even had elephants at
his house for a while. An engineer I worked for who was his neighbor
had a grapefruit-sized ball of compacted straw on his desk as a curio.
Guess what it really was!

The reindeer stayed for a while after the park closed, too. Zoos in
general aren't doing well and the animals are moved around when one
has to cut back. The local paper keeps up with the whereabouts of the
more popular ones.

jsw