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| Topsy and the Bystander Effect Just like Luna Park Zoo January, 1903 Fed your lit cigarette and cyanide soaked carrots Whipped for pleasure by a "trainer" this menace of your society stomped Reduced by experiment force fed 6600 volts of your direct current Edison jealous of genius Tesla demonstrated his true talent A giant fell to death before you're paying spectators Bystanders without a cry against such indignant cruelty because I was the mad beast. Sorry I was ignorant to the Bystander Effect. But, you're going to sit there and tell me I'm wrong for feeling the victim? I thought about googling this video to post here. I'm sorry. I won't be another: "...Not just Topsy the Elephant, but a rather long series of animals, all of which had shown themselves to be a danger to humans. This included horses, lions, tigers, and bears. Edison was happy to oblige the state of NY in executing these “menaces to society,” by employing alternating current, but his ulterior motive was merely to show the world the danger of alternating current, invented by Nikola Tesla, his arch-rival. Edison’s direct current didn’t have the strength to electrocute an elephant, and he considered it safer. So, on January 4, 1903, at Luna Park Zoo, Coney Island, Topsy was hooked up to Edison’s lighting plant, and electrocuted with 6,600 volts of AC. But this was after they fed her carrots that had been soaked in cyanide, just to be sure. They deemed Topsy to be a permanent threat to humans, as she had killed three handlers in three incidents, one of which involved a handler, who regularly whipped her, trying to feed her a lighted cigarette just to watch her suffer. She stomped on him. 1,500 people watched, and no one said a word in complaint. Edison filmed it, and the film is available on YouTube, if you feel like being outraged. The funny thing is that the ASPCA, which is supposed to protect the rights of animals, considered hanging to be cruel, as it would cause strangulation, not a snap of the neck, and yet had no problem with cyanide poisoning and electrocution." You want to feel outraged, read these stories: https://listverse.com/2009/11/02/10-notorious-cases-of-the-bystander-effect/ I'll leave you with this instead (SPOILER): |
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