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  • PeTA is going to boycott all electricity now in protest. the problem is they won't be able to get the word out with anything but snail mail.

  • Yeah stop caging elephants, they tend to express their opinions with violence, doesn't mean they deserve to die for an opinion.

  • And don't get me wrong, Wiki is great! I've relied on it myself quite often. But it has its deficiencies, which in my experience are mostly related to a lack of information than wrong information.  Nonetheless, the reader beware. Wiki covers a LOT of territory, all of it prepared by human beings. Enough said.

  • I love all this 21st century sensitivity. The times and life in general at that time was MUCH, MUCH more gritty & earthy than anything we see today. Not many things in the world were viewed with such fear and delicacy as they are today. People were personally & emotionally tougher--they didn't have Dr. Phil and Deepak Chopra or Esalen and all the rest of our modern psycho-babble to club us into docility and compliance. Then the world was their oyster; it was rich and for the taking.

  • humans are the most dangerous and cretin species ever to live on this earth

  • holy crap! thats bizzare!

  • LOL XD

  • If it was a few decades earlier he'd probably be using black folks.

  • i hate cats.

    

  • Thumbs up if you saw this because of The Epic History of Everyday Things.

  • Edison backed DC power and wanted to show that AC power was 'BAD' because he knew it was better and didn't want it to catch on with the people. this is how he did it, showing it could kill an elephant and even a person. this is how economics was ran in the past. with no real rules to keep it in check its history and a dark part of it. people bitching about it are dumb. its not happening anymore.. its over.. if you really have a problem with it, run your house off of car batteries.

  • What a idiot !

  • may god put that bastard into hell!

  • Que Bastardo...

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  • Poor thing. :(

  • Edison was a queer

  • that was my grandfathers elephant RIP

  • OK the real story of this is that elephant aka Topsy is being put to death because it killed 3 people including its abusive trainer who sometimes made her eat lit cigarette butts, one day she snapped and went on a rampage. They killed her buy putting copper shoes on her and running electricity through them, that's why shes smoking. It has nothing to do with Edison and if you don't believe me look it up type Topsy the elephant on Google.

  • @DaRejectedJester, you are right, but Edison was involved in her execution for separate reasons (trying to prove that DC is better than AC). If you don't believe me, wiki it.

  • And of course believe EVERYTHING you read on Wiki.

  • @tramky and why not? the sources are at the bottom of the page for you to verify. As a joke I once wrote some bs on a wiki page, the next day I checked it and it was removed. You might as well doubt everything you come across if you want to be a skeptic for it is human to err, but honestly compared to other free internet sources of information wiki's pretty damn accurate.

  • hate to see this...

  • You can't honestly.........charge an elephant for murder LOLOL. It just sounds silly. Plus Edison would have likely electrified it anyway since it was part of his anti - AC agenda.

  • read "electrified sheep" it tells the whole story from a rather objective point of view.

    I really enjoyed that book!

  • It must've smelled like burned hair.

  • Should have tried it himself.

  • PEOPLE JUST DONT KNOW THAT ANIMALS HAVE FEELING AND DO GET HURT THIS BREAKS MY HEART!!!! </3

  • tesla might be the most brilliant person to have ever lived. he beats edison soundly.

  • comment to Dewocan, Thomas Edison was definitely not a thief, he had some great inventions & did some good things with electricity, even if it was Direct Current, in a way Thomas Edison was a genius. you are right though Nikola Tesla was a genius, so was Michael Faraday, not sure about Mr Westinghouse (i do not know his first name) think i will have to find a book about him or try & find out about him on the World Wide Web.

  • @BigSteve02 he definitely WAS a thief,when he made an agreement to pay a young tesla 50,000 dollars if he accomplished what they agreed upon,Tesla did,and edison never paid.instead he made a LOT of money from what tesla did.

    hes a fucking piece of shit.

  • @bobo007xx

    thats america and capitalism for you.

  • wtf!

  • Tesla grew up in a poor family.

    Edison never had to worry about money.

    Many people dont know what hungry is.

    I leave it to you to figure out which is which.

  • Nikola Tesla invented.

    Thomas Edison paid people to invent.

    One is a genius and the other is a businessman

    I leave it to you to figure out which is which.

  • Shocking

  • The bottom line is this:

    Thomas Edison was a nobody when it came to the discovery and development of electricity. His so called development of direct current had long been known, played with, and discarded by Nicola Tesla as he knew that DC could not be delivered over distances.

    Nicola Tesla was a Serbian immigrant to the US and so it was obvious that Edison would pick up the credit for any power invention.

    And of course he did for political reasons.

  • Why does everyone feel sorry for this asshole?

    He went on a murderous crime spree across New Jersey.

    He also held up a few banks and raped a couple housewives.

    Face it, Jumbo had it coming.

    Sure it looks harsh but, this is the only way society can deal effectively with the criminal elephant, I mean, element.

  • @imallpissedoff what do you give an elephant with diarrhea?

    plenty of room..........

  • forza tesla!

  • Anyone else in the mood for fried elephant ears?

  • ooh, wtf :\

    go vegan

  • thats so freein sad :( we leanred about this in science

  • fucking boy do that......

  • all you people that are saying ooh what a shame why are you surfing to this video anayways

  • thats just so deep

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  • german scum

  • @sdkkrew Idiot, germans didn't do it, AMERICANS DID IT. It's only a german documentary.

  • @sdkkrew

    You really are showing your ignorance aren't you?

    That movie is American arranged by Thomas Edison and has been over dubbed for a German documentary.

    If you know nothing about a subject, perhaps you should consider not commenting else you run the risk of showing the world that you're a total dick brain and I presume you don't want that do you?

  • Poor elephant, he wouldn't of harmed anyone in the first place if he was left alone in Africa and not shipped abroad to the circus.

  • IF I EVER MEET THE PERSON WHO KILLED THAT INNOCENT ELEPHANT!! well let's just say they won't be walking anytime too soon

  • @Perewinkle32 read the description you idiot! by the way, the person who did it is either dead or very old so stop bitching you little fuck

  • @xXRabbaniZz Like I need to put of with your crap you retard

  • @Perewinkle32 lol, good comeback you idiot

  • @Perewinkle32

    They wont be walking again any time soon anyway because this video was made in January 1903 and the man who was responsible for the elephant's death was Thomas Edison who would be 164 years old if he was still alive, which of course he isn't.

  • If I were an elephant forced to do circus tricks for my peanuts I would look for any chance to stomp on as many humans as I could as well...but I digress...Tesla was a genius, Edison even hired him...brought him to America. Edison=money. Lot's and lot's a money.

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  • D: 

  • Edison didn't even invent the light bulb for fuck's sake. The real inventor was a British scientist named Joseph Swan.

    And even if you're a stupid Edison fanboy and still insist that he did invent it, you should know that the light bulb by itself is a pretty insignficant invention. What really made the difference in electricity was Tesla's Alternating Current and Michael Farraday's electromagnetic generator principles.

  • @HerlockSholmes123 - Edison invented the elephant

  • If the elephant was never abused by his trainer, he never would have snapped. The animal is innocent. Man is the biggest ruin to everything.

  • He didn't murder cats and dogs this way? Yes he did. He also murdered cattle and horses. Sounds like you need to get your facts straight. And one of the handlers this elephant killed fed her a LIT cigarette! Regardless of what Edison has invented what he did was wrong. He was desperate to prove his point so he wouldn't lose money and credibility. To kill animals for ones benefit is wrong.

  • Armes Tier..

  • Alright get your facts straight he didnt mureder cats and dogs like this and this elephant murdered 3 trainers and was deemed to dangerous so it was executed dont try to talk down one of the most respectable men in history

  • 2012 IS NOT REAL AND WILL NEVER HAPPEN. BUT ONLY THE HUMAN KIND WILL DESTROY OUR SOCIAL FORMS.

  • DIE IN HELL FOR KILLING THAT POOR ANIMAL U CUNTS!!!!

  • @AHAROONK YES THAT POOR ANIMAL DIDNT DO NO HARM 2 THEM!!!!

  • Tesla FTW CCCC

  • Assassin's Creed II !!!!!

  • Tesla was a Genius, the problem is he was born WAY before his time!

  • @Edwynn12

    Tesla was a Genius, but the problem wasn't that he was born way before his time, it was because he was an immigrant to the US and his science and theories were aimed head to head with the all American boy Thomas Edison and his financier the devil himself; J P Morgan.

    Tesla had no chance of survival against those two.

    Edison had very little of real usable value to offer the world.

    Nicola Tesla had it all - but J P Morgan destroyed whatever chances he may of had.

  • in which way is DC anyless lethal then AC ?

  • Fucking templars

  • Utterly disgusting. Feel bad for the elephant, Edison was a greedy business man, pure and simple. no genius, just filth, couldn't accept Nikola Tesla was smarter than him. Any lengths to prove a point Edison, including this? piece of shit.

  • @Blake4014 I can agree that he was a greedy business man and Tesla was smarter, but he was a genius and not filth. He has invented more than you can ever dream of. You can't disregard all he has done in the fields of science and technology just because he killed an elephant.

  • @GuruMarv I guess so, I let my emotions get in the way, however I do find his contributions to be great but overshadowed by his immoral character. Of this otherwise great inventor,

  • regardless what the animal did, or did not do....the point was to show how "dangerous" a/c power was.

  • The info on this vid is not entirely true. That was a circus elephant deemed too dangerous as it had killed 2 people. Although they could have tried to release it back into the wild, it is highly likely the elephant would have died shortly thereafter. It is true that this was a demonstration of electric power, but was also one of the most watched videos in the early 1900's. Same shit happens today with "dangerous" animals.

  • @WGPmetallica one of the people it killed tried to feed it a lit cigar

  • idiots, why do that to an elephant,

  • @crazyknight2008 because they wanted to prove that AC is also lethal and can even kill a huge elephant. at that time science wasn't as advanced at it is now!

  • this is disturbing, such a big animal this gota be painful death. and its not legit, so what he killed someone, thats nature its a animal. he does not deserve to be tied and electrcuted.

  • edison = thief

    tesla = genius

  • Aha! oh you know them germans!

  • This guy lives in his mothers basement; what do you expect? lol.

  • "(By the way the elephant killed or hurted someone, so his death could be legitimated.)"

    Anyone else notice that in the description?? What an ignorant fuck.

  • @c4nea now go and flush a water

  • @c4nea its not a suposittion, if the elephant hadnt that wold had been ilegal

  • @c4nea What, are you from PETA or something?

  • @c4nea it really was a rogue elephant dangerous , even for zoo .

  • @c4nea How is that ignorant? He's not saying HE CONDONES THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR. He's just explaining the video. White people "legitimized" their right to be in the American continent because they wanted a better life away from Europe. Does that automatically mean it was ok to kill natives, Slavery, white supremacy, forced Chinese/Asian labour

    The Japanese-Americans been seen as possible spies and required to intern Japanese-Americans is an explanation of why it happened, not a justfication

  • @sidjtd he said the elephant 'killed ' someone, as if it committed a murder. and then they killed it because of that. as if the elephant knew what he was doing and killed someone on purpose. so yes i do believe that is ignorant. even if he doesnt condone it, thats what happened, and its ignorant as hell. also, nothing you said is relevant to the topic at hand, and none of it even makes sense.

  • @c4nea No death should be legitimated..

  • @CenturyGoth18 BIG FAIL!

  • @huntwithairguns because...?

  • @CenturyGoth18 Because there are deaths that should be legitimated. Such as the death of a terrorist, rapist, murderer, the death of an animal for food...you get the idea.

  • @huntwithairguns you really are an american, aren't you.... yeah, thought so.... let go of 9/11 man, we know the deal by now...

  • @CenturyGoth18 And people like you is why Europe sucks balls.

  • @huntwithairguns in Europe, we allow them to be:) united states, the land of freedom, yeah right... where people can have guns and shit, but where nipples are censored, 'cause it might offend children... where a burglar gets a compensation when cutting his arm to the car he was trying to break into... where they copy the dutch sinterklaas into santa claus and say they invented the shit... talk about hypocricy...

  • @CenturyGoth18 So much fuck.

  • @huntwithairguns don't blame the messenger, dumbass

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  • @c4nea ok so if i ran upto some one in the street and punched them in the face , its legitimated to have me killed . (ya rite an ignorant fuck )

  • Edison was clearly a douche...

  • Tesla was a Serb Without Tesla we would not watch the TV playing computer and so on

  • Tesla was a Serb without tesla nebismo watched TV played a computer and so on

  • is this part of the documental "execution by hanging and electrocution of an elephant" by Thomas Alva Edison??

  • The things some people will do to keep a profit...

  • I hope deeper in the hell now.

  • A real bitch, because he knew c/c was way more dangerous in high voltage

  • @alexandreracine123 Wtf is c/c? Do you mean DC? Or AC? I've never heard of c/c.

  • I hate him for the poor cats killed >:O

  • All in the name of Science - WHAT A JOKE !

  • @Mean460

    All in the name of business, you mean.

  • I'll bet it tasted like chicken afterwards.

  • What the .....?????

    It was a Tesla or not?? :D

  • @aratisbug

    you have no clue what this is about do you??

  • fucking nazis. only they would do somthing like this.

  • @aratisbug Hitler was a sensitive man and also a vegetarian.

  • @NOTcaptainhook yeah, he didnt really want to kill 6.5 million jews and countless more. he was really just a nice, misunderstood guy.

  • @aratisbug He was making a reference to a really shitty metal band. The song is called, "Hitler Was a Sensitive Man," by Anal Cunt.

  • Now why did they kill this elephant. Just asinine. Thank god those assholes are dead. What shit heads. Hopefully they all had painful deaths!

  • @LAFD54 The elephant was named TOPSY. She had killed 3 men- including an abusive trainer. Originally the owners planned to hang her (!), but an animal rights organization objected. To demonstrate the "dangers" of AC, Edison agreed to electrocute her.

  • sad fuckers who treated this elephant like that, they need the same punishment

  • "This is awful, i am inventing electricity and you look like an asshole. You look like a fucking idiot." - Nikola Tesla

  • ZOMYGOD left for dead smoker Beta

  • Nikola Tesla! From Serbia! My insane brother!

  • was this one of those circus elephants who killed its trainer or something....because i have seen one hung for that.

  • abartig.da sieht man mal wieder wie scheiße menschen sind

  • I hope Edison in the hell now...

  • btw hey bin so einsam jemand lust zu camen oder schreiben

  • yeh but at the time scientists weren't aware that elephants were self aware.

  • ist amazing

  • Oh mein Gott. Das ist glaube ich aus einer Doku über die Todesstrafe

  • @HenningGu

    nein ich glaube das war die geschichte wie der storum erfunden wurde. eine dokumentation ist dies aber allerdings.

  • shocking isnt

  • Edison should have just used negro bucks...nobody cares about them.

  • damn that fucking templar asshole edison

  • @SnakeB78 stop using electricity then u asshole

  • @hardstyle905 lol you obviously dont understand the meaning of what I said ignorant fool

  • death by electricution..how cruel

  • wegklatschen den huan sohn

  • @Kingh9rN he showed on alternate current cause westinghouse was trying to make it popular. Edison = direct current and westinghouse = alternate current.

    Edisons problem was that direct current was not transportable at long distances cause he couldnt transformate. look for "Stromkrieg" or "war of currents"

    cheers

  • i thought edison showed the dangers on direct current not alternating.

    just curious cause of the description.

  • The elephant's owners decided to kill it, they said it was a threat to humans because it had killed its trainers.  All Thomas Edison did was record it.

  • @cali0chamele0n

    You are a fucking sick person

    I hope someone does the same to you 'because you deserve it'

  • Edison wouldnt have done it if the elephant didnt deserve it.

  • The elephant had a shocking experience. Its end was revolting. The elephant studied current events. AC come AC go.

  • could have told you the results without the elephant

  • Dinner's ready!

  • This just proves to me all the more Edison is a piece of shit! Trying to compete with Tesla no matter what. Edison knew he was no match for Tesla's genius so lets take it out on a animal!

    What like direct current won't kill??? What an asshole!

  • shiza sticken

  • 109 People are electrocuted elephants.

  • 109 people got electrocuted!

  • The description isn't accurate. This elephant killed a few people, it was violent. I'm not saying that this death isn't cruel but it wasn't exactly an innocent animal.

  • @dakfe427 Don't you think that's why the description says, "(By the way the elephant killed or hurted someone, so his death could be legitimated.)" ?

  • edison stole everything from tesla!!!!!!!!

  • Edison was power hungry... Nicola Tesla FOREVER!

  • haha ^^

  • And so we launched the era of electric ovens.

  • Operation dumbo shock

  • Now, that's just fucked up.

  • tesla 4 life!

  • Tata

  • All of you are being ridiculous. The elephant *along with other animals* were up for execution anyways because they have killed humans. The elephant killed 3 handlers, and only one was shown to be abusive. Usually elephants are hooked to a crane, and then lifted off the ground to be hung, Edison executed the animal using alternating current. He killed the animal in the same means was considered most human to kill humans at the time. Also, it was fed cyanide carrots to ensure it died.

  • @zainaku aah... right..

    it was cause elephant is a criminal..

    not cause they wanted its ivory

    of course ;)

    bad elephant..