Operation Dumbo Crash

SUV hits elephant that escaped from Okla. circus
Associated Press

ENID, Okla. — An Oklahoma couple driving home from church hit an animal — a really big one.

An elephant that escaped from a nearby circus collided with the couple’s SUV Wednesday night when it ran across a rural highway in Enid, about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City.

Police say the 29-year-old elephant had escaped earlier that night from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds. The couple weren’t injured in the crash, but police say the elephant had a broken tusk and an injured leg.

Authorities say the elephant’s tusk tore a hole in the SUV’s sheet metal.

After the crash, the elephant was taken to a veterinary school for an exam. Dr. Dwight Olson says the elephant doesn’t appear to have serious injuries.

You know the guy in the story had a bad week. First an elephant tusk ripped a hole in his car. Then Matt O'Hanlong and the Blackshirts ripped a hole in his heart. Honestly though how horrifying must it be to be driving down a highway and see and elephant walk out into the road? That circus has some serious explaining to do. P.T. Barnum never pulled crapped like this.