just because it's news. of some sort.

Chinese Elephant Kicks Heroin Habit

Chinese Elephant Kicks Heroin Habit
By Ian Ransom, Reuters

(Sept. 4) - A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program on China's tropical island province of Hainan.

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang" in state media reports, was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.

After police arrested the traders and freed Xiguang a few months later, the elephant was confirmed to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms and sent to a wild animal protection centre in Hainan for rehab, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction.

Now clean, Xiguang was expected to arrive on Saturday at a wildlife park in Kunming, capital of the elephant's home province of Yunnan on the mainland.

Xiguang's return would cap a 1,500-km journey home, Xinhua said, and mark another step in the elephant's triumph over addiction.

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"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” - Stella Adler

That's fucking terrible The poor fucking thing!

At least it's off the smack now, and living the protected elephant life.

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Sad, but with a good ending.

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If you are Canadian, there is a 30% chance you are already in Broken Social Scene

They blatantly were just going to bum it.

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say no to drugs.

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you pretend you're high
pretend you're bored
pretend you're anything
just to be adored

I wonder who would waste heroin on an elephant.

someone that had enough to spare?

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"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” - Stella Adler

WHAT THE FUCK??? not only is this now classified in the "Dumbest Shit EVAR" file, but it's also just fucking horrible. i'm happy the elephant is going to be fine though.

Being kidnapped to a semi-tropical climate and force-fed heroin-laced bannanas is my idea of the good life. You know some asshole's just going to kill it to make a table stand out of its foot anyway.