Camel Attack at the Jefferson Davis Home

[Gene C]

What can I say, it's a slow news day here on the forum

http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2017/...n_sue.html

With all the anti Confederate feelings now days, Sir Camelot might want to tread softly or he may be the new attraction in the cafeteria.


http://www.visitbeauvoir.org/

[Thomas Kearney]

It's not even Wednesday and it made the news

[LincolnMan]

She "... was basically just walking across the grounds and this camel charged at her, stampeded her, and ended up biting her..."

Guess she wasn't walking a mile for a camel.

Only us old-timers might understand the comment...

[Eva Elisabeth]

Seems I'm an old-timer...(and I don't even smoke. But I love camels, especially dromedaries!).

[RJNorton]

Eva, here is a c.1949 ad for Camel cigarettes:

[LincolnMan]

Camel brand cigarettes still exist, right? I don't know because I don't smoke.

Is the camel at the Davis sight a throw-back nod to his idea of using them in the military when he was Secretary of War?

[Gene C]

Is the camel at the Davis sight a throw-back nod to his idea of using them in the military when he was Secretary of War?

I believe so.
Camels were also imported to Australia, where the population of certain types of Camels today is fairly high when compared to the rest of the world.

[RJNorton]

Here are a couple of articles about the animals and Beauvoir.

http://www.sunherald.com/latest-news/art...73200.html

and

http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/coun...96477.html

[Donna McCreary]

Camel brand cigarettes still exist, right? I don't know because I don't smoke.

Is the camel at the Davis sight a throw-back nod to his idea of using them in the military when he was Secretary of War?

Yes, the cigarettes are still manufactured. I remember my grandfather smoked Camels because they did not have a filter. I've never smoked, and the idea of an unfiltered cigarette seems rather gross.