Circus elephant, 58, causes chaos in Montana town after slipping her handlers
An elephant escaped from a traveling circus and wandered through the streets of Butte, Montana, on Tuesday, stopping traffic, knocking over a fence, and defecating in someone’s yard.
The elephant, a 58-year-old Asian elephant named Viola, was in the parking lot of the city’s civic centre being washed ahead of a Tuesday night performance with the Jordan World Circus, when a backfiring car spooked the massive animal, sending her running, Civic Center manager Bill Melvin .
