The time Tennessee did WHAT to a circus elephant?! #morbid #shorts

[pressenter]

POV: School whenever you stand up to the bully

[ericthomasson]

Sadly, the human race has a history of vicious behavior on many levels.

[xyPERSON]

An elephant attacks an abusive owner basically in self-defense and it ends up being executed in front of a crowd of so-called human beings who cheer its death. Yep...that sounds like humanity to a tee and sadly not much has changed over the past hundred and six years.

[misterx]

Leave the elephant alone! She was merely defending herself.

[justintrudeau]

That animal suffered abuse under the foot of it's "trainer" so they killed it for standing up for itself.

Sad

[Whyistomatoafruit]

I can’t even imagine the horror of Mary’s death. This is just so goddamn awful and cruel.

[jalenad]

Considering people were bringing their kids to public hangings of HUMANS at the time, this isn't all that surprising.

[FredDoggs]

Wow she Only did it in self defense,
Mary was a Elephant 🐘 😭

[leluchvibritannia]

To be clear, I only dislike this for the injustice of Mary the Elephant

[darknessfalls]

What?! That poor elephant 🐘. I'd pick the animals side over that disgraceful human. Mary didn't deserve to die at all. 😞

[Faithfamilyfarmingflorida]

That is sooo TERRIBLE & IMO... the trainer MOST DEFINITELY got what he deserved IF IT IS TRUE that he was abusive to Mary!

[A_R_.]

That so called "trainer" deserved the smooshed watermelon head reward he got

[wallyfox]

Extremely difficult to hear this horrific crime against a beautiful elephant

[soldierofodin]

They should have strung up the circus owner for allowing abuse, and sent Mary back to where she'd been stolen from.

[saintdamien]

Angers me to no end. To this day elephants get treated horribly. Guess that's why I laugh when they've had enough and trample their "trainers". Lol

[debrafrogner]

I am constantly so disgusted how humans can abuse, imprison, torture & neglect wild animals, but if that animal tries to protect itself or a loved one, we, as asshole humans, murder the poor animal. Most elephants are peaceful (obviously there are those exceptions, but few) so, if an elephant goes after people...there is almost always a DAMN GOOD REASON FOR FOR IT!!!!

[vaderyoda]

All of those involved in the murder of the elephant 🐘 are being punished in the afterlife including the local residents.

[devinchittum]

Going from having an animal hanged because of one abusive person’s death in 1916…fast forward to 2022 where Nikolas Kruz is still alive after killing 14 children and 3 school staff awaiting life or death. Our society as a whole has dropped the value of human life so much

[JNB]

This is crazy, animals and people being hung in town square while people cheered like it was some fkg football game. Humans are awful.

[chrismancini]

As a Tennessean myself this angers me because that poor elephant clearly isn't at fault like humans animals that are being abused on a daily basis will eventually snap some sooner than later.