Fugitive elephants corralled

I can picture it now . . . A good friend drops you off after a night of heavy drinking and you find three elephants in your yard eating the shrubs and flowers you just planted. 

Three Asian elephants escaped from a circus in Newmarket early this morning, and ambled through a nearby residential area before they were safely rounded up.

Circus trainers and York Region police used cars to help round up the trio of fugitives who were spotted on Eagle St., near Yonge St. and Davis Dr., at around 3 a.m.

The elephants, performing at the Ray Twinney Complex with the Garden Bros. Circus, ambled several hundred metres towards Yonge St., munching on shrubs and taste-testing flowers.

“Apparently, they’re not kept in cages, but have a rope around their foot amongst the trailers,” said Const. Lindsay Newlove.

No one was injured in the speedy takedown.

“They rounded them up pretty quick,” said Newlove. “I guess they’re well-trained elephants.”

The road was blocked, the animals were corralled and soon put back to work.

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(Thanks, Heather!)

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Ohio Supreme Court Sides With Judge In Bible Passage Case

The Ohio Supreme Court has sided with a Cincinnati judge, saying he did not do anything wrong when he asked a suspect to quote a Bible passage. The 43-year-old man went in front of the judge facing charges on suspicioun of receiving stolen property in April. His attorney asked for a low bond because the man had a full-time job and was a regular churchgoer. The judge said if the man could recite the entire 23rd Psalm of the Bible, he would let him out of jail. The man recited all six verses. The man later pleaded guilty and is waiting for sentencing. A California activist filed the complained against the judge.

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