Elephants can't handle their booze

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:48 pm

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common ... 02,00.html

"Drunken elephants trample three
From correspondents in Guwahati, India
27oct04

DRUNKEN wild elephants trampled to death three people and injured two in a tribal village in India's north-eastern state of Assam, wildlife officials said today.

A herd of a dozen elephants entered the village of Marongi yesterday and ran amok after taking long swills of rice beer brewing in casks outside the homes of the tribal people.

"The elephants, after entering the village first guzzled locally made rice beer kept in drums and then went on a rampage killing three people, including a woman," a forest official said.

The two people hurt suffered multiple injuries.

The attack was the latest in a wave of incidents over the last two weeks in which wild elephants have wreaked havoc in parts of eastern Assam after drinking rice beer usually brewed at this time of the year.

"They've plundered granaries and torn apart huts besides fatally attacking human beings," elephant expert Kushal Konwar Sharma said.

Wild elephants have been straying out of their jungle homes into human settlements because people have been encroaching on animal habitats due to a scarcity of land, environmentalists say.

In the past five years, elephants have killed at least 150 people in Assam, according to official figures. Angry villagers have retaliated by killing up to 200 elephants in the same period, some of them with poisoned-tipped arrows.

The last elephant census in 1999 recorded 5400 elephants in Assam, more than half of India's tally of 10,000."

Asharak · Post by **Asharak** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:50 pm

Am I the only one who read that and thought "damn, those are some pansy-ass elephants - the ones in R:TW would take out a hell of a lot more than 3 soldiers if they stampeded"?

- Ash

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:56 pm

Asharak wrote:Am I the only one who read that and thought "damn, those are some pansy-ass elephants - the ones in R:TW would take out a hell of a lot more than 3 soldiers if they stampeded"?

- Ash

Well, not exactly the same thoughts but I was thinking of R:TW...

Asharak · Post by **Asharak** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:05 pm

siljanus wrote:Well, not exactly the same thoughts but I was thinking of R:TW...

Close enough. I feel less alone now.

- Ash

khomotso · Post by **khomotso** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:54 pm

May Ganesha grant me the strength to change the things I can,
the serenity to accept the things I can't,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

[Edit because I even screwed up the damn prayer. Now I'm off to my perfectionist's group]

Eel Snave · Post by **Eel Snave** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:57 pm

This was the quote that got me. It sounded Onion-esque, almost.

Zekester wrote:The attack was the latest in a wave of incidents over the last two weeks in which wild elephants have wreaked havoc in parts of eastern Assam after drinking rice beer usually brewed at this time of the year.

Asharak · Post by **Asharak** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:59 pm

khomotso wrote:May Ganesha grant me the wisdom to change the things I can, and accept the things I can't.

Off topic, but that reminds me of something posting in my doctor's office:

The Senility Prayer
May God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference!

- Ash

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:12 pm

Onion-esque?

Eel Snave · Post by **Eel Snave** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:15 pm

http://www.theonion.com

America's Finest News Source.[/url]

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:24 pm

Ahh, I see.

.....here's your hotdog

Eel Snave · Post by **Eel Snave** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:32 pm

Same to you, PAL!

DiscoJason · Post by **DiscoJason** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:48 am

It is sad that people died, but at the same time, that story rocks!

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