Wuppertal, Germany; July 21, 1950, 10:30 a.m.: a man buys a ticket for the venerable Schwebebahn monorail. The 4 year-old girl with him buys five tickets.
They board a second class wagon. Behind them, more people scramble inside carrying notebooks, pencils, pens and cameras.
A minute into the journey or two, the girl wants to turn around, gets up, and hits her head at the ceiling. She panics, of course, people scream, a bench breaks, then a window — and Tuffi, the four year-old elephant on a promotional tour for Circus Franz Althoff, has jumped out of the monorail into the river Wupper below. Franz Althoff himself hurtles after the animal and finds her calm and unharmed, safe for a scratched behind.
Now, amazingly, not one of the journalists inside the monorail or out took a picture of Tuffi's famous and daring escape. So, if you find a depiction in somebody's Gmail signature, you know it must be photoshopped; and you know how it — or any other image — got there, of course:
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