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Bill Melvin, manager of the Butte, Mont., Civic Center, said a female elephant was spooked by a passing vehicle backfiring and managed to break free from its handlers, briefly escaping from Jordan World Circus staffers and walking the streets.
The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before being loaded back into a trailer.
The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana , leading the pachyderm to break through...
Viola the elephant was reportedly spooked by a car backfiring, and escaped her handlers before roaming the town's streets for about 20 minutes.
AMY BETH HANSON and BEATRICE DUPUY The Associated Press The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show