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http://www.youtube.c.....T_g6Wpx5as

and the elk was euthanized because of it, bullcrap imo

A young elk was put down late Friday after being put in the spotlight by an amateur video that caught the animal headbutting a nature photographer, officials said.

The footage, which went viral last week, showed lensman James York sitting beside a road in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Asheville, North Carolina, as the one-and-a-half-year-old elk continues to headbutt him and periodically jab its antlers.

The YouTubed incident was the tipping point for park officials since the elk had a history of unmanageable behavior, Dana Soehn, a spokeswoman at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, told NBC News.

Soehn said that since September the elk had been "hazed" an estimated 28 times. Hazing includes shooting the animal with bean bags and paint balls, running after the elk as well as lighting firecrackers to scare it off, Soehn explained.

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