Banksy committed animal cruelty in his movie "Exit through the gift shop."

September 15, 2006 Banksy had an art show in Los Angeles. He rented an elephant from "Have trunk will travel" for his exhibit. He painted this elephant bright red with gold stenciled markings. He painted her eye lids, ears, trunk, tail, belly and private parts. I received many complaints when animal lovers saw the elephant on the news for the VIP grand opening. I'm sure this animal cruelty was intentional guerilla marketing for his show.

The next day I went down there to see for myself. The elephant's owner let me look at the elephant and the box of paints. I photographed the labels of the paints. It was red poster and wood only paint and Cinema Secrets gold metallic paint. The owner told me they weren't allowing the elephant to lay down so she wouldn't mess up her paint job. Every day they would still touch up her paint.

I went home and wrote a report about the paint. I gave it to the GM of Animal Services. He verified the report then called the owner and told her she must remove the paint. It took two days but they finally removed the paint. The elephant was still in the exhibit but without her paint. A report was filed against the elephant owner to the USDA for allowing her to be painted with wood and paper paint. People contacted Banksy's management about his act of animal cruelty. He left the country and didn't respond.

Contact the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science at http://www.oscars.org and let them know that you don't think a film that includes animal cruelty should be up for an Academy Award. This documentary is nominated for an Academy award. People are saying they believe he will win.

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