It just came across on ABC TV's San Francisco affiliate, KGO:
If the Oakland Coliseum Arena follows through with a proposed ban on elephant billhooks, they stand to lose over a million dollars a year. Here's why, and here is what grabbed my attention fast:
Not only will Feld pull the circus, he will yank his fluffy Disney ice shows and something called, I think, Motor Cross
This strikes me as (legal, I suppose) calculated coercion. and I wonder how it may play out on the PR front in the Bay Area, not the most hospital place for traditional circus.
When the news came out, earlier in the year, about the L.A. City council having banned the use of bull hooks (to take place in a couple of years --- this should be interesting to watch unfold), the only thing I heard reported from Feld Entertainment was that the circus reacted more along the emotion of regret, stating that it would not be able to bring the circus to Tinsletown. Nothing was said, to my knowledge, about the blades and trucks being denied the city.
Can you smell a slowly seething anger gathering flames?
Peevish?
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