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Jyrki21
Rebel Sell + Moneyball = Life
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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Location: Ottawa, ON
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A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detoxification program on China's tropical island province of Hainan.
The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as Big Brother or Xiguang in state media reports, was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.
After police arrested the traders and freed Xiguang a few months later, the elephant was confirmed to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms and sent to a wild animal protection centre in Hainan for rehab, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction. |
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Av-merican
Un-Tenured Professor of Hockey
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Location: Denver
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treebait
The Master of 'Bait
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Location: Office Purgatory
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I like the comments... it does sound like a viable reality show! Now, if we could just get some drug-addled chimps in bikinis, I think we could pitch it to Fox.
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E.L.3000
Big in Japan
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Location: Fuck tha MTL police
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Good to hear he's clean: that elephant owes me 20$ that time he took it from my savings jar when he was sleeping on my couch.
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