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mschark, YouTube All hands on deck. Or trunks, as it were. After Joplin, Mo. was devastated by twisters, locals needed all the help they could get in cleaning up the aftermath. And not just human help either. This elephant is part of the Picadilly Circus, which had rolled its bigtop into Joplin for a performance when the storms struck. Since the venue where the circus was meant to go on instead was converted into a makeshift hospital, the circus was canceled. But instead of skipping town, the circus stayed to help, including their floppy-eared pachyderm of burden. ...

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