Two elephants walks down the street...
If you haven't heard this yet, this may be the funniest story to ever happen to the Town of Newmarket.
So the circus was in town (ha ha) and the electrified fence for the elephants went down and realizing this, two of them decided to play tourist. The thing is, where the circus was set up (Ray Twinney Complex, it seems), it is surrounded by suburbs. So of course, where do the elephants go but down suburban streets, surprising some night-owls while they enjoy a midnight snack of golf course and front lawn trees.
Anyways, York Regional Police was kind enough to post mp3s of a 911 call reporting this and the dispatch conversation with police officers sent to...ummm...corral these animals. The cops were definitely having fun relaying their efforts back.
Update: It seems the York Region Police have taken down the mp3s. Luckily, the good ol' CBC has a realaudio format of the initial call to police. If I find a link to the other one, I'll post that one too.
2 comments:
I've been laughing about this all day.
911: What size elephant are we talking?
Newmarket Kid: Like full grown
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Police: I have the outstanding elephant on Crossland Gate, its um eating someone's tree.
Dispatch: ten-four.
That's comedy gold.
I also enjoyed the air unit asking if there were any other animals they could help round up. You know they wanted to be part of the action. God knows rounding up elephants would be much more enjoyable than rounding up belligerent drunks or drug dealers...
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