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Elephant dung leaves German town fuming

 
 
Col Man
 
Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2004 05:08 am
BERLIN (Reuters) - A travelling circus in Germany has been ordered to come back and clean up 50 cubic metres of elephant dung after residents complained about the smell, police say.


"We got a call and checked out the site and realised that the turds were far too big to come from horses. It had to be elephants," said police spokesman Wolfgang Heimann.


The circus left the site on the outskirts of the western city of Wuppertal four weeks ago and the dung had been ripening in the sun. "The stench was terrible," Heimann said on Friday.


"We've found the circus and they're sending someone to take it away. They've got quite a job on their hands."

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2004 07:26 am
Costs-by-cause principle/polluter-pays-principle that's called in the laws.

Thanks for mentioning that - wasn't in any German paper (only in the "press map" of the Border Police* and the local
advertising weekly
*Actually, this was a job for the "Federal Border Police", since the dung was left on railway ground - and the the Transport Police is part of the Border Police :wink:)


Wuppertal, btw, is a "town" of 370,000 inhabitants and home of the world famous "Schwebebahn" (= unique suspension line across the valley of the river Wupper).
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hamburger
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2004 06:05 pm
ELEPHANT
the wuppertal schwebebahn is given a good deal of coverage in the "elevator-world magazine". it also contains an entry about the famous TUFFI - THE ELEPHANT incident. i still remember the incident and i'm glad i found the entry. seems that TUFFI wasn't too fond of given a free ride in the schwebebahn and he jumped into the wupper river - didn't do him any harm at all ! SCHWEBEBAHN + ELEPHANT ... skip down to para 13 if you don't want to read the whole article. hbg
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hamburger
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jun, 2004 06:16 pm
ELEPHANT
the elephant dung(and dung from other zoo animals) is being explored as a source of power by the toronto zoo ! so let the saudis keep their oil : CANADA HAS ZOO-POO POWER ! the ZOO-POO has been sold by the zoo for some time to eager gardeners. i also remember that when hagenbeck's zoo brought animals into the port of hamburg, my dad would try to obtain a bag or two of this famous POWER DUNG ! it would make carrots, beans etc grow particularly well (and the taste was exquisite - of the vegetables, that is). hbg CANADA'S ZOO-POO POWER
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Col Man
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2004 01:50 am
nice one walter and hbg Very Happy
thx for the information Smile
you learn something new everyday in this world Smile
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