Elephants parade

[BennyHarp]

Only in northern ireland! 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/northern_ireland/7682175.stm

A circus has been reported to Northern Ireland's Parades Commission for leading elephants through a street in Bangor, County Down.

Alexander Scholl from the Sydney Circus said the elephants were being exercised last week when the police arrived and told him to put them back in a trailer.

He said he had never heard of the commission and that the elephants had been welcomed everywhere else.

The PSNI confirmed they had reported the circus to the parades body.

"With all the other towns it wasn't a problem - we would just bring the elephants wherever we went, bring them through the town," said Alexander Scholl, who is from Germany despite the circus's Antipodean origins.

'Illegal'

"But this time in Bangor the police stopped us and told us to put the elephants back in the trailer. The officer said 'you cannot do this - this is an illegal parade'.

"I didn't understand what he meant, we've always been welcome everywhere else, so we put the elephants in the trailer and brought them back to the show."

The Parades Commission was set up in 1997 to make decisions on whether or not restrictions should be imposed on controversial parades during Northern Ireland's marching season.

[The Gs Man]

About time they packed up their trunks and said goodbye to the circus.......

[Hereiam]

This is an example of how the other side has the upper hand here on this island. These officers, (the law) most likely from a prodestant faith have used this to show how the parades commission in the unionists eyes is a joke and an example like this makes the news and the public in general will start to question the need for this public body and eventually it will be done away with and no-one will say boo. This was a very clever move whoever give the go ahead on it. I for think the parades commission is a joke away as the orange order are allowed to march the whole bloody summer which itself is a joke.

[ludermor]

I'm Confused 

[Hardy]

Didn't they know only apes and dinosaurs are allowed to parade in the North?

[pintsofguinness]

Didn't they know only apes and dinosaurs are allowed to parade in the North?

10/10