Elephant escapes circus, wanders streets of Butte, America (www.montanarightnow.com)

submitted 5 months ago by GammaGames@beehaw.org to c/weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan

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[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

Well that’s a load of elephant dung. Their link was just an embedded video from their channel anyway. Here’s a link to an article about it that doesn’t discriminate against GDPR, and includes the same video footage:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elephant-viola-escapes-circus-butte-montana/

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, Butte’s nickname is really Butte America. I couldn’t resist the weird headline

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

I thought it was some foreign country reporting, like we'd say Paris, France.

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