Wow, I've heard this story a thousand times but I never knew there was video of it in existence.

Well that was a horribly *dark bit of *history. What an asshole.

Adding video to channels (Dark, History) - requested by dystopianfuturetoday.

damn it. Edison was such a fucking asshole.

Thomas Edison: Dick.

I dunno if its true, but someone on reddit was saying the elephant was going to be killed anyways for having killed its trainer or a spectator or somethin... Edison still seems like a dick imo, but he may not have just killed a random zoo/carnival elephant.

Viva la Tesla.

Shooting an Elephant
by George Orwell
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/

I sore this for the first time when i was like 12 , proper scared the shit out of me.

still creepy now

>> ^ToKeyMonsTeR:

I dunno if its true, but someone on reddit was saying the elephant was going to be killed anyways for having killed its trainer or a spectator or somethin... Edison still seems like a dick imo, but he may not have just killed a random zoo/carnival elephant.


yah it had gon on a rapage at an event , i think it killed a spekctator as well.

Did anybody even read the description to this, or was it added after people started insulting Edison. It's not like he did it on a lark one lazy Sunday. That would be a dick move.

Imagine if a killer whale or a lion mauled and ate three trainers. The public (many of you, in fact) would take up pitchforks and torches demanding the termination of such a beast. This is exactly what happened here.

Although admittedly, it would seem far less cruel if the elephant didn't have such a damn cute name!

>> ^garmachi:

Did anybody even read the description to this, or was it added after people started insulting Edison. It's not like he did it on a lark one lazy Sunday. That would be a dick move.
Imagine if a killer whale or a lion mauled and ate three trainers. The public (many of you, in fact) would take up pitchforks and torches demanding the termination of such a beast. This is exactly what happened here.
Although admittedly, it would seem far less cruel if the elephant didn't have such a damn cute name!


No, he really was an asshole

@garmachi used to be just the first paragraph. Still, Edison was a dick. Tesla is where the shit's at.

Edison = Templar
Tesla = Assassin

(Yes, I did recently replay Assassin's Creed 2...)

Edison was an asshole and a dick. He was also a thief.

He did not invent the electric light; he stole the idea from Humphry Davy. He also stole a copy of the film "Man on the Moon" and profited from it as his own work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

>> ^garmachi:

Did anybody even read the description to this, or was it added after people started insulting Edison. It's not like he did it on a lark one lazy Sunday. That would be a dick move.
Imagine if a killer whale or a lion mauled and ate three trainers. The public (many of you, in fact) would take up pitchforks and torches demanding the termination of such a beast. This is exactly what happened here.
Although admittedly, it would seem far less cruel if the elephant didn't have such a damn cute name!


Edison was an asshole, and a thief. Most of the things he "invented" were actually bought agressively, or plainly stolen from others.

And I, for one would never demand the termination of a wild elephant or any other wild animal for that matter, because they killed someone. Guess what? They're wild. They are not on this earth to entertain us.

That wasn't much consolation to Topsy, who was dead, nor to Luna Park, which was eventually destroyed in a horrible fire. Today, nothing remains of either except for Edison's film. If you ask the folks at the Coney Island Museum, they'll show it to you.

I bet that would gather quite the strange looks from someone.

Either way Edison was still a bit of a dick. He was really pissed off after the World's Columbian Exhibition and tried everything he could to discredit the use of AC, including this. There was alot invested into DC power distribution so there was alot to lose.

I tried sifting this a few years ago, and it got killed because it was considered too graphic. Glad to see it finally got sifted up.

Why are people voting for such a distasteful video? I have been shown this before so I'm assuming this is just the film of the elephant dying in agony.

Why would anyone want to watch this? What kind of sick freaks are you?

You could just downvote the video.

You think that's bad - I heard Edison once electrocuted an elephant... I'll see if I can sift a video on it...

I normally insta-downvote animal cruelty, but I didnt downvote this because it serves as a reminder of what a cnut edison was. Admittedly I had seen this before in some documentary film (Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.) and was disgusted.

Everything I've heard about edison since only makes him more of a slimeball, and Tesla more of a genius. Apparently he did this to show how dangerous AC and Teslas ideas were. He didnt give a crap about the elephants criminal record this was about money.

Somebody probably said all that already but I'm too tired to go back and check

>> ^robbersdog49:

Why are people voting for such a distasteful video? I have been shown this before so I'm assuming this is just the film of the elephant dying in agony.
Why would anyone want to watch this? What kind of sick freaks are you?

Enhance?