The little circus town of Peru is often lacking in excitement. However, over the weekend there was a little bit of excitement when a furniture store next to one of the city’s only monuments, the circus building, caught on fire. You see, Peru has very few things that they are proud of. It is home to the Circus Hall of Fame, and every year puts on the Circus City Days festival. During this festival a full three ring circus is held in the circus building. So you can imagine what would happen to the town if this building burnt down.Although any fire isn’t funny, I did find a little humor in this one. When I heard about it and went down to see it, I was shocked by the amount of people that had come out to see it. As you can see from the picture there is a large crowd gathered watching this all go down. I bet there were at least 150 people that I saw in total.
[UPDATE] Don’t worry people, the show will go on! As reported by WISH TV 8, The Peru Amateur Circus will go. I can’t tell you how relieved I am to here this. I was laying awake at night wondering of the Peru Amateur Circus (that I never go to) would go on or not. I wonder how much longer I am going to have to hear about this? My guess is at least 8 more months.
[UPDATE 2] It’s all over YouTube. Somebody shoot me.
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