The elephant problem

Today's New York Times has a long and interesting story about elephants on the streets of Bangkok - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world ... ref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20elephants.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)

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But elephants stand apart because for centuries they have been considered noble beasts, collected by kings and used in preindustrial times as the tanks of the battlefield.

Are you, Spike, a noble beast too ? :clown: