This is a terrible stigma, that "the circus" has to deal with public perception wise!!!!

Circus bear trainer Mircea Molnar and his wife Dana pull a bear into a van in Pantelimon. Romania's Veterinary Authority confiscated four bears as they were not kept in ideal living conditions.
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"This picture and caption, has gone all over the world. I guarantee the closest this gypsy and his dancing bears ever got to being a " real circus" like Romania's Richter Circus, was on a street corner in some dirty village, with his wife telling fortunes, a daughter playing a tambourine, and a juggler/jester passing the hat for a few leu. This is such a travesty that this type of worldwide bad paper continues to this day. What would the world think of the American judicial system, if they ran a photo of a Mississippi lynching from the 1900, with a dozen smiling men standing around, and titled it The Judges of the United States Supreme Court."