Ten years ago today, in front of hundreds of horrified Circus International spectators, Tyke, a full-grown female African elephant, mauled her groomer, Dallas Beckwith, trampled and killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and then bolted from Blaisdell Arena onto the streets of Kaka'ako. "What the industry is trying to do is wait until people's memories fade." "You're taking about a city that is extremely leery about allowing anything along those lines back at Blaisdell Arena anymore," said city spokeswoman Carol Costa. Even when the handler walked by the elephant after this, the elephant screamed and veered away, demonstrating fear from his presence. The Hawaiian Humane Society has formulated an official position stating that "wild animal acts should not be used in entertainment such as circuses, shows and exhibits."
He also ran the first elephant ride there. He also ran the first elephant ride there. In Honolulu, Hawaii, during a circus international performance, the female elephant Tyke crushed her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators, at the Neal Blaisdell Arena.
He also ran the first elephant ride there. He usually did this himself and was known to be a workaholic. Goeggel points to four failed bills to ban exotic animal acts in Hawai'i. "Hirano was trying to close the fence and the elephant charged at him, busted through, soccer-balled him on the ground and hit him, shattering his leg and that's when the first shots were fired. I saw this headdress on the elephant, and I thought there must have been a circus in town and the elephant got away." Tyke was an African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii. It all changed his life, Ralston said. And the next thing I knew, it was running by me, bloody."
By Cicci August 20, 2013 Allen Campbell Animal Welfare Ban Circus animals Ban Circuses Circus Cruelty to animals Elephant honolulu Tyke Tyke was a female Elephant born 1974 and died August 20, 1994 after being shoot by the police 86 times. No traditional circus has applied for a city permit since the Tyke incident, but officials are now reluctant to issue permits that include exotic animals anyway.
The suits were settled out of court, the last of them only last year, but the amounts were never made public. Tyke was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii. One person who firmly believes that the traditional circus should come back to Honolulu is the wife of the publicist who came close to being killed by Tyke. Allen Campbell's autopsy revealed that he had cocaine and alcohol in his system at the time of his death. Tyke bolted from the arena and ran through the streets of the Kakaako central business district for more than thirty minutes. Others insist that simply because no circus elephants have been here in a decade doesn't mean a tragedy similar to the Tyke disaster could not happen again. He advanced elephant care at the Baton Rouge Zoo by insisting that all of the elephants not just should but must be fed and watered and their enclosure cleaned every night as well as every day. Allen Campbell (1953-August 20, 1994) was a zookeeper and elephant trainer and handler in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida before moving to work in the Baton Rouge zoo in the mid 1970s as the elephant keeper and trainer. Photo of Allen Campbell (left) taken in Peru, Indiana, 1993. It was also determined Campbell had cocaine and alcohol in his system at the time of his death.The Tyke incident inspired legislation on local levels in Hawaii and abroad, while Author K.A. Tyke then ran from the arena and through the streets of the Kakaʻako central business district for more than thirty minutes.