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| The elephants wrecking the Spooky Day Parade |
The morning started normally as my photographer, Daniel P.
Smithwater went to go get a report on the Spooky Day Parade. What is the Spooky
Day Parade? Well, it is essentially a pre-Halloween parade (A Christian like
myself doesn’t really participate in Halloween, considering its deep roots in
Pagan customs). This parade has gotten very
scary in deed over the years. The costumes get creepier and creepier every time
the parade is held. And worst of all, the people in scary costumes often scare
little kids. This is terrible considering that it’s normally such a nice day
outside. Then, as the parade started to march down the road, Daniel and I were
in for a big surprise. Suddenly, coming from the opposite direction, was a herd
of African Elephants from the New York
Africa Zoo was stampeding down the street and towards the parade. The
people ran in all direction, but for some odd reason, the elephants seemed to
charge more at the people doing the parade. They went over the floats and used
their tusks to tear them apart. Confetti flew around everywhere. Daniel and I
would have left with the other spectators, but why miss out on such a good
story. And besides, Daniel wouldn’t have gotten the picture above. One of the women spectators
said, “AHHHHHH!!!” In other words, we didn’t get much out of her. Most of the
Spooky Day Parade marchers escaped before the elephants could hurt them, but
two of the spooky dudes got trampled by Martha the elephant. They didn’t get
killed, but instead got Floaticus Maximus.
This non-life threatening disease makes the person bloat up like a balloon. The
two men had to stay in the hospital for two months until they finally shrank
back to normal size. No one is quite sure how the elephants escaped their cages.
But zookeeper Manny Minlens has a theory. She said, “I’m not exactly sure how
the elephants escaped. But they have been playing with the door lock lately.
Perhaps they finally figured out how to unlock their own cage. It looks like
we’ll have to put a new lock on.” Scientists aren’t sure why the elephants
targeted the marchers, but they think it’s because some of the marchers had
been eating peanuts, mangoes, bananas and other fruits before marching. The
smell of those foods was probably on the floats and attracted the elephants who
may have not liked the music the marchers were playing and so they tore up the
floats. The elephants were returned to their enclosure at the zoo and it looks
like the Spooky Day Parade is cancelled forever. Hooray!
Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan
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