Friday, September 5, 2008

hmmm....

This made me sad. But it also made me laugh a little. Is that wrong?

From the Fayetteville Observer:

Beijing--An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin at the hands of illegal traders will return home after a three-year rehab program, Chinese state media said Thursday.
Xiguang, a 4-year-old male Asian elephant, became addicted after he was captured by smugglers along the Chinese-Myanmar border in March 2005. The traders fed the elephant bananas laced with heroin as bait and to pacify the creature.
When Xiguang was found two months later along with six other captured elephants in China's southwest, he was suffering from withdrawal.

It isn't that the elephant was addicted to heroin or how he became so that made me laugh. It was imaging an elephant as Ewan McGregor's character in Trainspotting that made me laugh.

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