Edison fucking thieve and scammer, most of "their" inventions belong to Nikola Tesla, i really hope there's a movie of it soon and that they show what a fucking ass Edison was
humans bring a wild animal here to become an object of entertainment and when it kills people it's a "threat".... maybe we should stop thinking that just because we are capable of making animals do unnatural things people wouldn't be killed by them... I think we are the real threat.. at least it died quickly I guess
its a wild animal without a conscience so why decide to kill it like its some criminal when they should just release it back into the wild (where it came from)?
FUCK EDISON AN ANY OTHER COCK SUCKER ON HERE WHO THINKS THIS IS OK, IF U WANT TO KEEP AN ANIMAL THEN ACCEPT TP BE BITTEN OR KILLED, such is life, or stay away from aniamls, your not deserving of them
AC isn't made up, says so in the game that the game is clips and actual events from the past, and that the games story line was helped put in place by historians
okay look i am genuinely sorry about my brother's comment that may have offended all of you. it's not my fault he wrote that comment. and for all of you who keep complaining about that comment you should just sod off okay! it's not my comment! so just shut up!
This elephant was killed by Thomas Edison in an attempt to prove a point. His point was wrong from the beginning, yet he persisted. And as a result of his insane tyrade of electrocution demonstrations, we now have the electric chair. Which failed btw, the first guy Edison tested it on died after the seventh shock, after his spine burst into flame
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Them elephants are the same as a mouse or a fly, the elephants can't think like we do. They don't think or process things like we do, they can't say oh i hate this place. Animals are not human.
I hope so... because "them there elephants ain't smarter like us human types 'cause they cain't think 'bout ejumacated stuff and all, like hunting varmints and such... hee haw." Damn, middle America strikes again!
yeah, poor topsy, he did it on cats too, but they were just tests, they do it today on mice, as if a mouse has a less significant life as opposed to an elephant
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I am appalled at the fact that they shocked an elephant and totally don't agree with it but to all those people who are trashing Edison you really need to take in the big picture. Yeah he shocked an elephant (he wasn't perfect) but he funded the invention of the phonograph, practical light bulb, and the first industrial research factory. So without him we would all probably be burning whale oil right now.
Edison sucks! How inhumane, I am glad people are filially starting to realize how much of a scam he was, any mistreatment of animals is terrible. Humans mistreat everything! People environment animals all we do equals war and destruction, so much corruption and greed in this world.
@chrisslooter Just so you know. This elephant was electrocuted to find out voltage we can use in our homes and not kill us. This was an experiment, not just for the joy of killing an elephant.
@titibayun umm no, they put the elephant down because it killed people and edison wanted to use electricity to show AC current as dangerous so we would use his DC current, but he still lost, and we use AC anyway.
I don't think they could have euthanised her with pentobarbital during that time period. It would have been hanging or being shot to death. I think I would prefer electrocution and cyanide to shooting or hanging. She probably had a reason (or many) for killing her owners, but human life is valued more than animal life so she had to be disposed of. AC currents won out in the end. Edison is an asshole though. He often stole peoples inventions.
what you guys dont know is that the elephant had killed three men in the construction of an amusement park and it was going to be killed anyway. they tried cyanide pills, and also considered hanging it.
this is really sick I dont care if the elephant killed three people.. it still feels pain and most likely wouldn't have killed those people if it knew what it would do!
if u must know the elephant was sentanced to desth any way, for killing 3 people. being killed instantly like that was alot more humain than how they would of normally done it.
no because its known that say 100 or so years ago executions were 3-4 times more than what is today. I would doubt the human body has become weaker or there is now a premium quality, low quality electricity. In the 60-70s it used to be 2000 in most states. It takes a couple of minutes for a 6 foot man to be fully dead from the chair. Stages= braindeath, keeling over/unconciousness=heart stopping.
I didnt know the elephant killed people, I didnt read about it, only watched it. Too bad, this elephant should have been put into a Elephant Conservation away from other elephants, they have the land for this. BASTARDS
not that edison was a great guy or anything but the elephant was going to be put down for killing several people, it was actually a very quick way to do it
Wow, what the fuck is wrong with you? I bet if I passed a goddamned elephant in a zoo it wouldn't just up and fucking kill me.
Humans > Elephants. Real enlightened attitude, dipshit. I hope you suddenly have several pounds of raw meat dropped on your head for no reason and then pass a really hungry bear. Get raped, asshole.
Are you retarded? Acting all smart and shit about animals, have you ever seen a real elephant? Know why people avoid elephants on TV shows like Jeff Corwin or Man Vs. Wild? Because if they see you, they'll run at you, and trample you to death. Because that's just how their puny little brains work, smartass. Stop trying to act like you're something more than a little kid with no knowledge of anything.
So, lemme get this straight then, genius. We take an elephant from the wild, abuse it, feed it a lit cigarette, it defends itself in a rage and kills three people, so a ghoulish scientist (Edison) out to prove that alternating current is the devil's handiwork jumps at the chance to kill an animal. That's all this is.
Stop acting like a sanctimonious little bastard who thinks humans are the peak of evolution.
Yeah, tell me the next time an animal conjures up enough thought process to form one five word sentence, then I'll believe animals are somewhat near humans in terms of evolution.
Oh wait, that's impossible. Because they're just not as evolved as us, shit.
I think you got me there, LOL.
The devil's handiwork? Wow, now you're just making yourself sound like an amish kid.
But wait, you're using electricity right now, aren't you?
At the beginning of the 20th century, Edison was as usual cheating and crushing smaller competitors with glee. He had successfully ousted competitors in the production of electricity by Direct Current, a crude, some would say pointless and altogether stupid technology.
Then, in an effort to destroy pioneer Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse with his growing electric power empire, Edison had begun a public smear campaign against their far superior technology, alternating current. Edison publicly ranted throughout the country, sometimes visibly foaming at the mouth, insisting that his DC was sent to us by God and his Saints and Angels.
The Saint he believed in most was most notably Saint Albertus Magnus, patron of Electricity. AC, on the other hand, bore the Mark of the Beast and its use in any major application would bring about the Apocalypse. To prove it, Edison began a cross-country tour and massacre, electrocuting dogs, cats, livestock and at least one orangutan using AC.
The man was a ghoul and a bastard, and that's why I do not condone his senseless electrocution philosophy.
Wow, I honestly don't care. The fact is, the elephant killed people. I don't give one shit if someone fed it a cigarette, 'fact is that elephants are just dumb animals who have a thing for killing humans. I don't see why anyone would sympathise for this stupid beast being killed for killing innocent people. It's just a dumb animal, after all. It'd kill you, it got killed. Woohoo.
How are they "innocent" if they pick on the animal, you dumb shit?
You're blatantly standing there, denying reason itself, refusing to believe that other people just MAY perceive all of this madness as wrong and barbaric and stupid just so you can vent about how elephants "have a thing" for killing humans, which is a crock of horseshit.
This is what you get when your IQ matches your fucking shoe size. You and people like you are the reason I don't believe humans are done evolving.
Of course humans aren't done evolving you shit, nothing is done evolving until it becomes extinct. Hense people not being born with Wisdom teeth or appendixes. So it's rumored 1 guy fed it a cigarette, so it killed two other people who didn't do anything. This isn't the only case of an elephant killing humans, kiddo. They're beasts who understand nothing but eating, shitting and killing. Like I said, it'd kill you without disgression also, Mr. DEFENDTHEELEPHANTS.
And I think it's bloody fucking hilarious how the cornerstone of your argument has been "It'd kill you, too," "I don't care," and "It's a retarded animal." How I even engaged you in this argument for this long is baffling, but converting one lone heartless fucking nutcase really isn't my job. In the face of countless facts, your arguments have continually faltered.
Please never speak to me again, you stupid, stupid human.
Countless facts? You mean the one rumor that somebody fed it a cigarette, it being stupid enough to eat it, killed 3 people because of that? Yeah that's fucking COUNTLESS. But then again I guess it's normal for people like you to not be able to count to one.
Elephants kill people, all the time. When we kill one elephant back, it suddenly becomes "OMG CRUEELL"
Or all that stuff about Edison you blatantly ignored, about how obviously insane he was, to which you merely said "I don't care," you MASTER of rhetoric, you?
I don't give one shit whether he was crazy enough to think what he thought, that isn't the point. The point is that it's retarded to call killing an elephant cruel, for killing people. People are put to death for killing people too. Why should an elephant be exempt to the death penalty? It knew it was trying to kill people, and things that kill people on purpose don't deserve to live.
But obviously killing a human is perfectly fine. Now killing an elephant, that's crossing the line.
Let me try this again: I do not think an abused animal does not have the right to defend itself. If you had a small, controlled fire in your mouth, and your brain was the size of a baby's fist, you'd be pretty angry, too. Where your endless spite for...elephants...springs from absolutely baffles me.
Defend itself? It wasn't defending itself against the two people who didn't do anything to it, and just happened to get in the way of the beast's blind rage to kill anything around it. You're still making great sense.
Because once again, elephants SHOULD be allowed to kill people without punishment. Yup, just keep talking.
What, so elephants are CONSTANTLY pissed off? The two other people were in the way, it's true. But...God, the point is so lost on you, I don't think I can continue.
So how do humane human beings live and work with elephants in other parts of the world?
Basically you're saying if you poked me with a cigarette now, and I killed you for it, I shouldn't be put to death for some reason? Or, you're saying the elephant shouldn't because it's too dumb? You're saying any time an animal kills a human it should just be allowed to go about it's merry human-killing life?
You know? I mean, yes, it's a dumb animal, who was enraged after being abused. I don't think we should be setting it up to human standards because...well, it isn't human, and flat out doesn't know any better. It was abused, lashed out, and was chained to an amp by a ghoulish scientist. I think the difference is massive, at the very least.
Yeah, just let me look up the absolutely staggering numbers of people who're killed by elephants yearly. Probably outnumbers cancer patients!
It's not even so much that I love elephants; I just really believe that Edison was a ghoulish human being who was just so very certain that his holy power was divine that he used it to repeatedly kill animals. I like animals and really don't think the way to divine inspiration is to kill them to prove your brand of current is better.
WRONG! Elephants do have feelings. I worked with elephants for over 10 year's. Elephants are very close people, even their maturity is the same. Your a SAD person anyway you put it!
i don't blame the elephant for killing 3 people, i would kill three people too if they had captured me from a natural habitat and made me do flips 3 times a day and then probably abused me (by today's standards) as well. the poor thing...
PLEASE DON'T READ THIS you will die in seven days if you don't post this comment on 10 videos in the next hour. if you do tomorrow will be the best day of your life
stupid people killing animals just because they don't understand them. they should've taken the elephant to an animal care place in africa to teach it how to be in the wild again and then set it free. i don't think that people should get electricuted and i definitely don't think it should happen to animals either.
well this was done in the early 1900s so there were no laws against things like this. so it was kind of normal. setting cats tails on fire was a very common sight in neighborhoods less than 30 years ago. and, there was no program for elephants in africa in the early 1900s.
Actually, the elephant dying had as much to do with Thomas Edisons' attempt at disproving the usefulness of AC current, as it did the elephant's health. The electrocution was an experiment by Thomas Edison.
HEY EVERYONE: Please click on the "more" link to the right for the whole story. I posted this video for historical purposes only, not to take any side in anyones agenda. This video is 104 years old, can you really argue today's problems based on early science and less sophisticated methods? Be nice and play well...!
This is so sad by the way, that she was abused and some Neanderthal tried to feed her a cigarette. Elephants a beautiful, very intelligent creatures that should roam free in Africa and not be kept usued in circuses etc. and abused by ignorant humans.
i dont see what your problem is. elephants are living to just like yo-... well me anyway. you have a problem if you hate life even if that life belongs to an elephant.
ps. i am not a hippy
pss. this "experiment" was set up by thomas edison
JBurneo, you need more brains. I think you will find that whilst the input to your PC's power supply is AC, the current is then converted to DC. Do some research.
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Thats the whole point, the should have put a person there instead! An elephant, or allmost any animal, deserves to live more than avrage humans... like you..
That was cruel. But more importantly, it was pointless, Thomas Edison lost in his bid for DirectCurrent; in our homes today we use AlternatingCurrent, which is what the Father of the modern lightbulb was compaigning against when he snuffed out that elephant, named Topsy, by the way.
Even geniuses have their bad points! Apart from me... i'm flawless.
So depressing
ThePrincessPaulina 1 month ago
Edison fucking thieve and scammer, most of "their" inventions belong to Nikola Tesla, i really hope there's a movie of it soon and that they show what a fucking ass Edison was
28power68 1 year ago 4
anybody else first see this video in assassins creed 2?
lazer59882 1 year ago
"This is awful! I am inventing electricity and you look like an asshole. You look like a fucking idiot!!"
-Nicola Tesla
ApeWithB0ne 1 year ago 3
Edison was such an asshol* he covered the elephant with acid just to be sure he dies and only to continue his stupid war of currents.
He doesn't deserved to be the inventor of the century.
kevinmartinez723 1 year ago
adison sucks - tesla rules
pcna 1 year ago 4
humans bring a wild animal here to become an object of entertainment and when it kills people it's a "threat".... maybe we should stop thinking that just because we are capable of making animals do unnatural things people wouldn't be killed by them... I think we are the real threat.. at least it died quickly I guess
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HankLandMan 1 year ago
its a wild animal without a conscience so why decide to kill it like its some criminal when they should just release it back into the wild (where it came from)?
dearmisssally1 2 years ago
this might sound dumb but i seen this on assassins creed 2 and i was sad as hell
soulreaver484 2 years ago
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Seen this via AC2 too. But sure, sad things need to do done to prove the dangers
thenewlodge 2 years ago
@thenewlodge i can see what u mean but he could of proved some other way other than killing an elephant
soulreaver484 2 years ago
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thenewlodge 2 years ago
@thenewlodge lol not a person but he could of showed it by shockin a piece of wood until it burns then i think ppl would have gotten the point
soulreaver484 2 years ago
@soulreaver484
Well the animal was to die anyway,
Might as well make its death more useful, least now its remembered :-)
thenewlodge 2 years ago
@thenewlodge In AC2 they said he did it so Tesla wont be allowed to use it and Edison did it and took credit
FARTY12W 2 years ago
FUCK EDISON AN ANY OTHER COCK SUCKER ON HERE WHO THINKS THIS IS OK, IF U WANT TO KEEP AN ANIMAL THEN ACCEPT TP BE BITTEN OR KILLED, such is life, or stay away from aniamls, your not deserving of them
peatree28 2 years ago
Wow and here I was thinking Assassin's Creed just made this kind of stuff up..intense o.o
Kashuno 2 years ago
@Kashuno
AC isn't made up, says so in the game that the game is clips and actual events from the past, and that the games story line was helped put in place by historians
thenewlodge 2 years ago
How the hell do you hang an elephant?
Zason816 2 years ago
MONSTERS!
How were they able to stare that poor animal dying in such a horrible and painful way!
We don't deserve this planet, that's for sure!
rochalandia 2 years ago
FUCK EDISON¡¡¡
Casanovaarturo 2 years ago
bloody awfull people!
morearrows 2 years ago
he was a dirty snake trying to reuin Tesla
kizzle1997 3 years ago 6
Westinghouse, not Tesla.
greebo68 3 years ago
okay look i am genuinely sorry about my brother's comment that may have offended all of you. it's not my fault he wrote that comment. and for all of you who keep complaining about that comment you should just sod off okay! it's not my comment! so just shut up!
mdp311 3 years ago
On July 20, 2003, a memorial for Topsy was erected at the Coney Island Museum
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Fuck Yankees and fuck their capitalistic ideals!!
Goddamn bastard first kill the animal and then they try to make profit out of it.
Just like with Che(the fucking communist). First they kill him and then they sell his tshirts to make profit.
Fucking hypocrites!!!
IboCino 3 years ago
sorry bout that. that was my brother's comment not mine.
mdp311 3 years ago
This elephant was killed by Thomas Edison in an attempt to prove a point. His point was wrong from the beginning, yet he persisted. And as a result of his insane tyrade of electrocution demonstrations, we now have the electric chair. Which failed btw, the first guy Edison tested it on died after the seventh shock, after his spine burst into flame
forty0seven0times 3 years ago
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Them elephants are the same as a mouse or a fly, the elephants can't think like we do. They don't think or process things like we do, they can't say oh i hate this place. Animals are not human.
mdp311 3 years ago
that was my bro not me.
mdp311 3 years ago
I hope so... because "them there elephants ain't smarter like us human types 'cause they cain't think 'bout ejumacated stuff and all, like hunting varmints and such... hee haw." Damn, middle America strikes again!
Valdevious 3 years ago
yeah, poor topsy, he did it on cats too, but they were just tests, they do it today on mice, as if a mouse has a less significant life as opposed to an elephant
Bocconium 3 years ago
I thought they said you shit yourself when electrocuted? This elephant did'nt.
Terminator860 3 years ago
an elephant a day keeps the bad monkeys away!
000176668 3 years ago
lol i really thought that was going to be a screamer
SuperCatOfDoom 3 years ago 2
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I am appalled at the fact that they shocked an elephant and totally don't agree with it but to all those people who are trashing Edison you really need to take in the big picture. Yeah he shocked an elephant (he wasn't perfect) but he funded the invention of the phonograph, practical light bulb, and the first industrial research factory. So without him we would all probably be burning whale oil right now.
JOEYCRAXMAN 3 years ago
And YouTube would pretty much be people in a pub acting like idiots for attention.
sdm42393 3 years ago
I think you all need to get a life. It Happen a 100 years ago. Get over it
LUSTFANGS 3 years ago
so sad!
sonofhendrix 3 years ago
what's wrong with people??
fattydelicious 3 years ago 3
Edison sucks! How inhumane, I am glad people are filially starting to realize how much of a scam he was, any mistreatment of animals is terrible. Humans mistreat everything! People environment animals all we do equals war and destruction, so much corruption and greed in this world.
haryharycritter 3 years ago
that elephant killed some people so they executed her.
but dont worry she died immediately
proregeRotzak 3 years ago 2
Tesla rules!! Edison as a total scam.
chrisslooter 3 years ago 32
@chrisslooter Just so you know. This elephant was electrocuted to find out voltage we can use in our homes and not kill us. This was an experiment, not just for the joy of killing an elephant.
titibayun 1 year ago
@titibayun umm no, they put the elephant down because it killed people and edison wanted to use electricity to show AC current as dangerous so we would use his DC current, but he still lost, and we use AC anyway.
CorpusChristi83 1 year ago
@CorpusChristi83 which we then convert to DC current for almost every device we run.
tpwebster 2 months ago
sometimes the humankind is just a bunch of crap.
DeinKoenig 3 years ago 21
I don't think they could have euthanised her with pentobarbital during that time period. It would have been hanging or being shot to death. I think I would prefer electrocution and cyanide to shooting or hanging. She probably had a reason (or many) for killing her owners, but human life is valued more than animal life so she had to be disposed of. AC currents won out in the end. Edison is an asshole though. He often stole peoples inventions.
bahjesse 3 years ago 3
maricon
Daimah91 3 years ago
Thanks! :)
halolauren 4 years ago
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Wow, why the anti-Edison vendetta?
halolauren 4 years ago
thats not really the point. how can an animal be punished for its actions. its pretty dark
horriblemen 4 years ago
what you guys dont know is that the elephant had killed three men in the construction of an amusement park and it was going to be killed anyway. they tried cyanide pills, and also considered hanging it.
bandboy1291 4 years ago
dude thomas sucks
redalert676 4 years ago
dude you are fucked up
redalert676 4 years ago
bet you will cry now after watching this
Mirani2 4 years ago
"baby mine dumbo"
Mirani2 4 years ago
fucking idiots
taliajazel 4 years ago
awful quality, but i guess it was 1903...
birdface23 4 years ago
this is really sick I dont care if the elephant killed three people.. it still feels pain and most likely wouldn't have killed those people if it knew what it would do!
ipodguru12 4 years ago
Owned
theballer04 4 years ago
if u must know the elephant was sentanced to desth any way, for killing 3 people. being killed instantly like that was alot more humain than how they would of normally done it.
Paulgogooren 4 years ago
people said that the elephant killed 3 people but thats sick
lakeoffire69 4 years ago 3
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The poor abused creature!
I pray that those who did it are now burning in Hell, if there is such a place.
cathytreks 4 years ago
Fuckin sick that....
SCOTTsh69 4 years ago
the elephant was actually a peadophile and was sentenced to death because it stuck its trunk up a baby elephants bottom
1247888 4 years ago 3
idiot
skeeveskeeve 4 years ago
LOL
birdface23 4 years ago
:O) LOL :O)
benmagee1981 4 years ago
no because its known that say 100 or so years ago executions were 3-4 times more than what is today. I would doubt the human body has become weaker or there is now a premium quality, low quality electricity. In the 60-70s it used to be 2000 in most states. It takes a couple of minutes for a 6 foot man to be fully dead from the chair. Stages= braindeath, keeling over/unconciousness=heart stopping.
NewYankee01 4 years ago
be interesting to know what the voltage was considering its so huge.
NewYankee01 4 years ago
Roughly 6,000 volts.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Jeez. Get over yourself. He was a bit irreverent, but there's no need to be a fucktard about it.
skraddypoo 4 years ago
I didnt know the elephant killed people, I didnt read about it, only watched it. Too bad, this elephant should have been put into a Elephant Conservation away from other elephants, they have the land for this. BASTARDS
AngeLonerOner 4 years ago
The people he killed allegedly fed him a lit cigarette, bear in mind.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Wow, before you call someone, learn how to spell, idiot.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
lol holy shit... its an elephant that died over a hundred years ago...who gives a damn
ndbigeyedfish06 4 years ago
It was going to be put to death anyway...might as well shock it to death instead of bleeding it or blasting its brains out i say...
jaykia 4 years ago
not that edison was a great guy or anything but the elephant was going to be put down for killing several people, it was actually a very quick way to do it
tinsawyer 4 years ago
BASTARDS, to do that to that elephant!
AngeLonerOner 4 years ago
Yeah it would step on your head without thinking about "POOR HUMAN"
It killed several people, that's why they killed it.
What if those people were your family, would you still say POOR ELEPHANT?
It's a retarded fucking animal.
MalachiteR 4 years ago 2
One of those people allegedly fed the damned thing a lit cigarette.
God, reading what you wrote made me feel a little like my soul's being sucked from my body. I am very sad you exist.
No, the elephant wouldn't feel anything like that because its brain isn't big enough.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Um, I really don't care. Humans > Elephants. It'd kill you too, idiot.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
Wow, what the fuck is wrong with you? I bet if I passed a goddamned elephant in a zoo it wouldn't just up and fucking kill me.
Humans > Elephants. Real enlightened attitude, dipshit. I hope you suddenly have several pounds of raw meat dropped on your head for no reason and then pass a really hungry bear. Get raped, asshole.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Are you retarded? Acting all smart and shit about animals, have you ever seen a real elephant? Know why people avoid elephants on TV shows like Jeff Corwin or Man Vs. Wild? Because if they see you, they'll run at you, and trample you to death. Because that's just how their puny little brains work, smartass. Stop trying to act like you're something more than a little kid with no knowledge of anything.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
So, lemme get this straight then, genius. We take an elephant from the wild, abuse it, feed it a lit cigarette, it defends itself in a rage and kills three people, so a ghoulish scientist (Edison) out to prove that alternating current is the devil's handiwork jumps at the chance to kill an animal. That's all this is.
Stop acting like a sanctimonious little bastard who thinks humans are the peak of evolution.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Yeah, tell me the next time an animal conjures up enough thought process to form one five word sentence, then I'll believe animals are somewhat near humans in terms of evolution.
Oh wait, that's impossible. Because they're just not as evolved as us, shit.
I think you got me there, LOL.
The devil's handiwork? Wow, now you're just making yourself sound like an amish kid.
But wait, you're using electricity right now, aren't you?
SHIT, you got me again.
Rofl.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
At the beginning of the 20th century, Edison was as usual cheating and crushing smaller competitors with glee. He had successfully ousted competitors in the production of electricity by Direct Current, a crude, some would say pointless and altogether stupid technology.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Then, in an effort to destroy pioneer Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse with his growing electric power empire, Edison had begun a public smear campaign against their far superior technology, alternating current. Edison publicly ranted throughout the country, sometimes visibly foaming at the mouth, insisting that his DC was sent to us by God and his Saints and Angels.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
I'm BEGGING you to sound like an educated human being through any of this, sentence structure notwithstanding.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
The Saint he believed in most was most notably Saint Albertus Magnus, patron of Electricity. AC, on the other hand, bore the Mark of the Beast and its use in any major application would bring about the Apocalypse. To prove it, Edison began a cross-country tour and massacre, electrocuting dogs, cats, livestock and at least one orangutan using AC.
The man was a ghoul and a bastard, and that's why I do not condone his senseless electrocution philosophy.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Wow, I honestly don't care. The fact is, the elephant killed people. I don't give one shit if someone fed it a cigarette, 'fact is that elephants are just dumb animals who have a thing for killing humans. I don't see why anyone would sympathise for this stupid beast being killed for killing innocent people. It's just a dumb animal, after all. It'd kill you, it got killed. Woohoo.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
How are they "innocent" if they pick on the animal, you dumb shit?
You're blatantly standing there, denying reason itself, refusing to believe that other people just MAY perceive all of this madness as wrong and barbaric and stupid just so you can vent about how elephants "have a thing" for killing humans, which is a crock of horseshit.
This is what you get when your IQ matches your fucking shoe size. You and people like you are the reason I don't believe humans are done evolving.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Of course humans aren't done evolving you shit, nothing is done evolving until it becomes extinct. Hense people not being born with Wisdom teeth or appendixes. So it's rumored 1 guy fed it a cigarette, so it killed two other people who didn't do anything. This isn't the only case of an elephant killing humans, kiddo. They're beasts who understand nothing but eating, shitting and killing. Like I said, it'd kill you without disgression also, Mr. DEFENDTHEELEPHANTS.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
And I think it's bloody fucking hilarious how the cornerstone of your argument has been "It'd kill you, too," "I don't care," and "It's a retarded animal." How I even engaged you in this argument for this long is baffling, but converting one lone heartless fucking nutcase really isn't my job. In the face of countless facts, your arguments have continually faltered.
Please never speak to me again, you stupid, stupid human.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Countless facts? You mean the one rumor that somebody fed it a cigarette, it being stupid enough to eat it, killed 3 people because of that? Yeah that's fucking COUNTLESS. But then again I guess it's normal for people like you to not be able to count to one.
Elephants kill people, all the time. When we kill one elephant back, it suddenly becomes "OMG CRUEELL"
Perfect sense!
MalachiteR 4 years ago
Or all that stuff about Edison you blatantly ignored, about how obviously insane he was, to which you merely said "I don't care," you MASTER of rhetoric, you?
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
I don't give one shit whether he was crazy enough to think what he thought, that isn't the point. The point is that it's retarded to call killing an elephant cruel, for killing people. People are put to death for killing people too. Why should an elephant be exempt to the death penalty? It knew it was trying to kill people, and things that kill people on purpose don't deserve to live.
But obviously killing a human is perfectly fine. Now killing an elephant, that's crossing the line.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
You're retarded without a bottom, you know that?
Let me try this again: I do not think an abused animal does not have the right to defend itself. If you had a small, controlled fire in your mouth, and your brain was the size of a baby's fist, you'd be pretty angry, too. Where your endless spite for...elephants...springs from absolutely baffles me.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Defend itself? It wasn't defending itself against the two people who didn't do anything to it, and just happened to get in the way of the beast's blind rage to kill anything around it. You're still making great sense.
Because once again, elephants SHOULD be allowed to kill people without punishment. Yup, just keep talking.
MalachiteR 4 years ago
What, so elephants are CONSTANTLY pissed off? The two other people were in the way, it's true. But...God, the point is so lost on you, I don't think I can continue.
So how do humane human beings live and work with elephants in other parts of the world?
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Basically you're saying if you poked me with a cigarette now, and I killed you for it, I shouldn't be put to death for some reason? Or, you're saying the elephant shouldn't because it's too dumb? You're saying any time an animal kills a human it should just be allowed to go about it's merry human-killing life?
MalachiteR 4 years ago
No, wait, please...just...don't answer that. You've succeeded in making me really, really depressed. Imma go kill an elephant.
Please, please, PLEASE don't reply to this. I'm asking.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
You know? I mean, yes, it's a dumb animal, who was enraged after being abused. I don't think we should be setting it up to human standards because...well, it isn't human, and flat out doesn't know any better. It was abused, lashed out, and was chained to an amp by a ghoulish scientist. I think the difference is massive, at the very least.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
Yeah, just let me look up the absolutely staggering numbers of people who're killed by elephants yearly. Probably outnumbers cancer patients!
It's not even so much that I love elephants; I just really believe that Edison was a ghoulish human being who was just so very certain that his holy power was divine that he used it to repeatedly kill animals. I like animals and really don't think the way to divine inspiration is to kill them to prove your brand of current is better.
DenOfVipers 4 years ago
WRONG! Elephants do have feelings. I worked with elephants for over 10 year's. Elephants are very close people, even their maturity is the same. Your a SAD person anyway you put it!
AngeLonerOner 4 years ago
You're probably upset about the way they shot that tiger to death that killed three people on Christmas day...bastards.
mfx2010 4 years ago
se ha quedado muñeco
makinerodestroy 4 years ago
pure evil lol.
RandomGuy432 4 years ago
omg pwened
corncornrocks 4 years ago
lolol but tahst hell meen and wat was teh ppoint. anyway i loled
samwise101 4 years ago
that elephant killed people while working in a circus. im pretty sure its name was topsy
corncornrocks 4 years ago
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divine0enigma 4 years ago
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YEH!!! Take that you ivory hoarding sack of shit!!!
jrcanary 4 years ago
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jrcanary 4 years ago
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This footage was also featured in Errol Morris' "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr."
p.s. Edison was a dick.
philmkim 4 years ago 7
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LOL THAT SHIT WAS FUNNY
kennyinheaven 4 years ago
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i don't blame the elephant for killing 3 people, i would kill three people too if they had captured me from a natural habitat and made me do flips 3 times a day and then probably abused me (by today's standards) as well. the poor thing...
miamivicepastels83 4 years ago 2
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thisisaaccount132462 4 years ago
poor elephant...
naty3543 4 years ago
Oh my god...!!
ArekuSilverwing 4 years ago
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bothellplayer54 4 years ago
stupid people killing animals just because they don't understand them. they should've taken the elephant to an animal care place in africa to teach it how to be in the wild again and then set it free. i don't think that people should get electricuted and i definitely don't think it should happen to animals either.
x3kmd 4 years ago 3
well this was done in the early 1900s so there were no laws against things like this. so it was kind of normal. setting cats tails on fire was a very common sight in neighborhoods less than 30 years ago. and, there was no program for elephants in africa in the early 1900s.
deathcamp2 4 years ago
I don't believe places like that existed in 1903.
Abba2six 4 years ago
Sorry, replied to the wrong post.
Abba2six 4 years ago
I don't believe places like that existed in 1903.
Abba2six 4 years ago
Geez, I am confused.
Abba2six 4 years ago
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Actually, the elephant dying had as much to do with Thomas Edisons' attempt at disproving the usefulness of AC current, as it did the elephant's health. The electrocution was an experiment by Thomas Edison.
beardedbard 4 years ago 5
crulty to animals poor thing
karenszac 4 years ago
Topsy belonged in the wild he was a miserable animal. I dont think killing him was the right choice
bcrfan79 4 years ago
animal cruelty.
animeniacAera 4 years ago
how do you hang an elephant????
OelkerStudios 4 years ago 2
cool
proventure12 4 years ago
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HEY EVERYONE: Please click on the "more" link to the right for the whole story. I posted this video for historical purposes only, not to take any side in anyones agenda. This video is 104 years old, can you really argue today's problems based on early science and less sophisticated methods? Be nice and play well...!
Valdevious 4 years ago
If they used ants nobody would be complaining.
kotuso 4 years ago
Edison suck, such a lame noob.
JohanKH 4 years ago
He got it on tape, it doesn't mean he acutally murdered the eli.
QueenAzooga 4 years ago
fuck thomas edson! how about "Electrocuting thomas edson"
gasmostarda000 4 years ago
alright start using candles then
Tallacus 4 years ago
This is so sad by the way, that she was abused and some Neanderthal tried to feed her a cigarette. Elephants a beautiful, very intelligent creatures that should roam free in Africa and not be kept usued in circuses etc. and abused by ignorant humans.
golddustdreams 4 years ago
lol
martian712 4 years ago
Agreed!
golddustdreams 4 years ago
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who ever felt bad for the elephant your a faag
THETOBYS 4 years ago
i dont see what your problem is. elephants are living to just like yo-... well me anyway. you have a problem if you hate life even if that life belongs to an elephant.
ps. i am not a hippy
pss. this "experiment" was set up by thomas edison
martian712 4 years ago
You're a moron, how does having empathy for a living feeling creature make someone a "fag"
golddustdreams 4 years ago
JBurneo, you need more brains. I think you will find that whilst the input to your PC's power supply is AC, the current is then converted to DC. Do some research.
bengaljmc 4 years ago
God that's horrible...poor elephant.
Laulie98 4 years ago
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evilhuggybear 4 years ago
people its a freaking animal, its not a person so stop complaining
Tallacus 4 years ago
Thats the whole point, the should have put a person there instead! An elephant, or allmost any animal, deserves to live more than avrage humans... like you..
lune66 4 years ago
animals dont have souls u know, people do
Tallacus 4 years ago
what the hell is wrong with you? animals can feel pain and have as much right to exist and live as we do. can you even prove that you have a soul?
John3701 4 years ago
tottaly un-cool
mxjukebox 4 years ago
Fuck Edison & Co.
zemers 4 years ago
That was cruel. But more importantly, it was pointless, Thomas Edison lost in his bid for DirectCurrent; in our homes today we use AlternatingCurrent, which is what the Father of the modern lightbulb was compaigning against when he snuffed out that elephant, named Topsy, by the way.
Even geniuses have their bad points! Apart from me... i'm flawless.
lauraturnaa 4 years ago
yeah u got that info from Thomas Edison hates Cats
martian712 4 years ago
QUIT ANIMAL TESTING YOU FRIGGIN MOFOS
XxXchaoschickXxX 4 years ago
Um Hello!!!??? Did no one see that this video dates back over a hundred years ago?! It isn't relevant as an argument against animal testing today!
skulliwulli 4 years ago
no kidding. good job. I agree.
MackysBackInTown 4 years ago
though we still do test on animals...wether it was yesterday or a hundred years ago we should still stop.
inupuppy101 4 years ago
american pigs.
giraffez 4 years ago
Geeze, that was harsh.
SmartStart24 4 years ago
that is disgusting
77777jax77777 4 years ago
at least dumbo didnt have to see it, unlike bambi
spoonb16acrx2003 4 years ago
you deserve to die motherfucker
Tú mereces morir hijo de puta,
myashess 4 years ago
whoa! Fried elephant :O
niiidar 4 years ago
THEY KILL ELLY THOSE BASTARDS!
leviathan227 4 years ago
Thomas Edison did that in a campaign against AC electricity ( even though AC is better)
blackops009 4 years ago
ouch pobrecito!!! jajajaja
irvdan2219 4 years ago