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Hoofing it to Boston Garden

Elephants

The circus came today and the elephants (and some horses and ponies) made the walk from the Cambridge rail yard to the Garden via Land Boulevard and the bridge by the Museum of Science.

Minders made sure the elephants stayed to the right instead of heading up to the Tobin:

Elephants

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Seeing these pictures reminds me of this Onion gem:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/children-of-all-a...

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As I see the elephants approaching the Craigie drawbridge and its open slat deck, my thoughts jumped to the many boats that frequently pass below and the possibility of an elephant "letting go" just at the right (wrong?) time. As a boater, I'll never forget when "environmentalists," the Dave Matthews Band, dropped 800 gallons of toilet tank contents on unsuspecting mariners in Chicago! http://www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/1144.html

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I was just going to ask whether the elephants actually enjoyed a forced march through Boston.

Maybe some Cambridge activist will start making a fuss and Cambridge will deny entry to the circus next year.

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Any reason why they didn't do this at two in the (expletive) morning instead of in the afternoon when people, you know, want to drive their cars in that area?

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Because it wouldn't effectively advertise the circus at 2 in the morning?

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Buy billboard space.

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Animals like to sleep at night? Others have already said its hard to get these animals to make the walk and enter the Garden. Probably twice as hard if the elephant wants to be sleeping.

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People spend $40,000 on a car with comfy seats, cupholders, climate control, and a DVD player so they don't have to interact with the kids...but if a bicycle or an MBTA bus or a freaking parade of elephants makes them spend 3 extra minutes in there, it's worse than Hitler invading Poland.

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Uh, some people do that. Other people, like me, buy a $15K car because that's really all we need/can afford and it's gas-efficient, and use it for its intended purpose, i.e. to get us back and forth places. My car's comfortable enough for driving, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

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And, instead of $25K to $40K for the additional fake plastic wood and fake plastic tacky gold trim and upscale logo, you can blow at most $2K on some awesome aftermarket seats and a good sound system.

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