Elephants + rice beer + utility pole = LESS elephants

[underpants]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2207800,00.html

Elephants die after beer binge
24/10/2007 12:10 - (SA)


New Delhi - Six elephants, including three calves, died after raiding an Indian village's rice beer and rampaging through a paddy field where they were electrocuted, officials and residents said on Tuesday.

Enticed by the aroma of rice beer being brewed by local tribal people, a herd of about 40 wild elephants came sniffing around the village of Chandan Nukat, about 250km west of Shillong, the capital of the north-eastern state of Meghalaya.

The elephants gorged on the beer on Sunday night after taking apart casks kept outside by local villagers and ran through a nearby paddy field that had an electrical pole running through it.

Other elephants tried to help

A wildlife activist, Dipu Marak, said: "One of the elephants tried rubbing his back against an electric pole passing through the paddy field.

"The pole was unable to withstand the animal's weight and it caved in, bringing the elephant in direct contact with the live wire."

[petronius]

1. That's "fewer" elephants

:P </grammar-freak>

This is a sad story, but the villagers might have dodged a bullet - I'd imagine a herd of hung-over elephants would be seriously bad news...

[KamaAina]

2. Drunken elephants? I thought the GOP convention wasn't 'til next year

:P

[havocmom]

3. Thought this was gonna be a 'pissin on an outlet' thread

Sister in law had a blind cat who did that once....

Only once.