I have had a few items removed from my luggage in the last few years and I always find a note that my luggage has been inspected inside the suitcase.
I fly frequently betweeen the USA and Europe so the odds of this occuring are pretty good, but the items missing from my luggage over the years have been pretty wierd...most notably a few clearly labeled plastic canisters of fairly expensive paint pigment.
I had bagged them with a note explaining what they were and asked that I be notified if there was a problem.
Nothing but a note stating that items had been removed from my luggage. There was never any response when I tried to get an explanation.

For some reason they thought the unmarked plastic tub of tahiniin the same suitcase was perfectly innocent!

Another coincidence, my wife just spent 2 weeks in Thailand and watched elephants paint at a elephant conservation center in northern Thailand. She brought back photos and I was in disbelief.

While elephant training can be brutal, the conservation project is not into those methods and the relationship of the elephants to their trainers is quite different than the methods portrayed in the post above.

The project is dedicated to saving and recuing elephants and creating environments in a land that is increasingly hostile to them.
Agreed, there is a brutal tradition, but there are two sides to this story.

I'm a late discoverer of this marvelous blog!
But then I've always had to be dragged into the future kicking and screaming!
Now I need to check it out everyday and one post can have the ability to change my fucking life!

The prison mess hall LSD scene is one of the most disorienting experiences I have ever seen on film.
Imagine an LSD trip as written by the writers of The Beverly Hillbillies....2 old Jewish Comedians playing mind fuck...
The dancing trashcans with the Harry Nillson soundtrack....
Jackie Gleasons first acid trip...
I need a new version of this film!