OK, I feel really bad for this elephant and all, but people and animals
are wounded/maimed/killed so often by these things, yet the US won't sign
the anti-mine treaty the UN had on the table last year. So how come we
all care so much about this one elephant? Could it be...hypocrisy?
h
--- Kimberly & Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> U.S. co. offers to help elephant
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A U.S. company has offered to make an
> artificial
> foot for an elephant injured after stepping on a land mine, a Thai
> foreign
> ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Carl Riecken, owner of Riecken's
> Orthodic
> Laboratory in Evansville, Ind., has offered to provide a ready-made
> elephant foot or materials and expertise. The plan will be discussed
> with
> veterinarians taking care of the elephant, Motola, at the Hang Chat
> Elephant Hospital in Lampang, about 300 miles north of Bangkok. A team
> of
> surgeons from Chiang Mai University in northern Thailand on Aug. 28
> amputated Motola's left front foot, which was shredded by an
> anti-personnel
> land mine she stepped on a few weeks earlier while preparing for logging
> work at the Thai-Myanmar border. See full story
> <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561051765-158>
>
>
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"Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"
and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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