A Mammoth Mistake
Alaska, Funny Stories, Gift Shop, History, Pets & Animals, Stupid, Tourists/Travel, USA | Right
| August 3, 2010
(The gift shop I work in has many ivory jewelry and sculpture pieces. The ivory is from woolly mammoths that used to roam Alaska.)
Customer: “Where does the woolly mammoth ivory come from?”
Me: “The tusks are collected on the northern tundra by Alaskan Natives. The Natives carve the ivory and then sell it to us.”
Customer: “I think it’s so great that people aren’t allowed to hunt the mammoths anymore! I hate hunters!”
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