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Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote north-east.The 40-strong herd uprooted an electric pole while looking desperately for food on Friday in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.
"There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away," said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist.
The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in northeastern India.
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at 11:00 on October 23rd, 2007
AlanEvans....Good stuff. I could have very easily tried to uproot an electric pole back in my drinking days. In fact, this reminds me of when my friend and I, in a walking stupor, tried uprooting a tree from the sidewalk on Sunset Blvd. in L.A. Fortunately, there was no power invovled...and we stopped trying at the sight of a passing police car.