[Scan-DC] Off-Topic - Elephant Walk tomorrow

[Joel Kahn]

Blair:
In these days of terrorist attacks on MPDC officers (hence all encrypted 
transmissions), MPD probably did not want bad press about closing streets during 
rush hour or the chance an elephant would hurl something at them!!

My Dad drove a Diamond cab for years and when I was pre-teen, he would park at 
their lot a couple of blocks from Uline Arena so I could sit on the hood next to 
the Washington Terminal tracks and siding and watch them unload animals and 
equipment and parade the few blocks to the arena.  


Doug can tell you....those were the good ole days!
 Joel 




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From: Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com>
To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, March 19, 2013 10:00:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Off-Topic - Elephant Walk tomorrow

That's odd. This is usually done in the middle of the day, to garner maximum 
publicity. 


I remember watching this a few years back. Right as the parade, coming north on 
Third Street, was approaching Constitution Avenue, the cops stopped the cross 
traffic on Constitution Avenue. What should be first in line in the stopped 
traffic, headed west on Constitution Avenue, but a bus loaded with middle school 
kids on their spring break trip to Washington, DC? Everyone poured out of the 
bus to get a pictures of the circus animals strolling by. They really got their 
money's worth. I still smile thinking about it.

---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at yahoo.com>
>To: Scan- DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> 
>Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 9:42 PM
>Subject: Off-Topic - Elephant Walk tomorrow
> 
>
>I got a text that the annual Elephant Walk is tomorrow, March 19th...
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>http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/03/17/d-c-police-say-circus-elephant-walk-to-close-roads/
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>https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=213279293104121752923.0004805b3a0c377e64516
>

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