28/03/2012
Elephant Runs Amok In Cork Shopping Centre Car Park
Fresh calls for legislation to ban live animals from performing in circuses have been made after an elephant ran loose in a Cork city car park yesterday.
The Indian elephant stunned shoppers at Blackpool shopping centre when it broke free from the Courtney Bros circus camped nearby.
Despite the best efforts of two keepers the pachyderm ambled through the shopping centre car park before running onto a nearby road.
It was eventually brought under control and returned to the circus.
Office workers overlooking the scene captured footage of the elephant.
Animal rights group ARAN said the footage showed "the need for local councils to adopt proper legislation to ensure circuses are banned on grounds of animal welfare and public safety".
"If this footage is not a wake up call for members of the public to stay clear of animal-act circuses then what is?" says ARAN's John Carmody.
"We're calling for people across the country to take their children to circuses that no longer use animals and we're also calling on local councils across the country to adopt motions to ban animal-act circuses using their land as matter of urgency."
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The Indian elephant stunned shoppers at Blackpool shopping centre when it broke free from the Courtney Bros circus camped nearby.
Despite the best efforts of two keepers the pachyderm ambled through the shopping centre car park before running onto a nearby road.
It was eventually brought under control and returned to the circus.
Office workers overlooking the scene captured footage of the elephant.
Animal rights group ARAN said the footage showed "the need for local councils to adopt proper legislation to ensure circuses are banned on grounds of animal welfare and public safety".
"If this footage is not a wake up call for members of the public to stay clear of animal-act circuses then what is?" says ARAN's John Carmody.
"We're calling for people across the country to take their children to circuses that no longer use animals and we're also calling on local councils across the country to adopt motions to ban animal-act circuses using their land as matter of urgency."
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