Drunken Elephants Terrorize India and Die on Power Lines

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21432722/

GAUHATI, India - Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.

Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.

They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said.

I watched the first few episodes of Planet Earth and found the whole elephant situation pretty depressing. If its not overpopulation driving them to this, its the global warming destroying the areas where they actually do have a habitat.

[xnikki118x]

That is really sad but funny at the same time.