Car backfire startles a circus elephant; she breaks down a fence and runs into traffic

The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city’s busiest street before being loaded back into a trailer. Viola, an Asian elephant with the Jordan [...]read moreCar backfire startles a circus elephant; she breaks down a fence and runs into traffic