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An elephant survived a 10M jump from Wuppertal's suspension railway in 1950

20 points by Password2 4y ago

TacticalCoder 4y ago
Restored footage from 1902 of that railway compared to footage from 2015, side by side: https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc
RobertLoblaw 4y ago
I always heard elephants were the only land animal that couldn't jump.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  It is a badly written article that doesn’t explain what happened well. But i am guessing this elephant barged through a wall, then fell.
- deleted 4y ago
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graypegg 4y ago
Unrelated to the article itself, but did anyone else think the tracking permission pop up on this site seemed odd? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it presented as “read for free with ads and tracking, or pay 2€ for Pro without ads and tracking”. There is no “do not accept” or “configure” option. I wonder how that fits with GDPR?
- graypegg 4y ago
  I’m wrong, you have to click the “here” link in the middle of the light-grey text, which brings you to a page describing the analytics services they use. You then need to click the “cookie settings” button, then click the “details” accordion button in the modal, uncheck all of the options EXCEPT “convenience” as that’s used to store your cookie preferences, then click ”confirm selection” That’s a lot more commitment to dissuading disabling tracking than normal, bravo outdooractive.com.
  - apricot 4y ago
    I'm slightly disappointed all that clicking doesn't bring you to a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
- petodo 4y ago
  Here you are with a superimposed picture created after the incident occurred https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-train-jump.html?m=1 https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-tr... And elephant's wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
ordu 4y ago
> It appears, in the commotion all photographers forgot to do what they came for: take a picture. What's a shame. They successfully scared the elephant so she jumped into the river, and forgot to take pictures of the event.
petodo 4y ago
Here article without blackmailing cookie prompt and with a superimposed picture created after the incident occurred https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-train-jump.html https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-tr... And elephant's wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

20 points by Password2 4y ago

Restored footage from 1902 of that railway compared to footage from 2015, side by side: https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc

RobertLoblaw 4y ago

I always heard elephants were the only land animal that couldn't jump.

quickthrower2 4y ago
It is a badly written article that doesn’t explain what happened well. But i am guessing this elephant barged through a wall, then fell.
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graypegg 4y ago

Unrelated to the article itself, but did anyone else think the tracking permission pop up on this site seemed odd? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it presented as “read for free with ads and tracking, or pay 2€ for Pro without ads and tracking”. There is no “do not accept” or “configure” option. I wonder how that fits with GDPR?

graypegg 4y ago
I’m wrong, you have to click the “here” link in the middle of the light-grey text, which brings you to a page describing the analytics services they use. You then need to click the “cookie settings” button, then click the “details” accordion button in the modal, uncheck all of the options EXCEPT “convenience” as that’s used to store your cookie preferences, then click ”confirm selection” That’s a lot more commitment to dissuading disabling tracking than normal, bravo outdooractive.com.
- apricot 4y ago
  I'm slightly disappointed all that clicking doesn't bring you to a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
petodo 4y ago
Here you are with a superimposed picture created after the incident occurred https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-train-jump.html?m=1 https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-tr... And elephant's wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

ordu 4y ago

> It appears, in the commotion all photographers forgot to do what they came for: take a picture. What's a shame. They successfully scared the elephant so she jumped into the river, and forgot to take pictures of the event.

petodo 4y ago

Here article without blackmailing cookie prompt and with a superimposed picture created after the incident occurred https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-train-jump.html https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-tr... And elephant's wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi