Sometimes you run across the craziest things. I had to read the following twice to be sure that there was no gotcha line...
Conservationists today hailed the socialite Paris Hilton, who was convicted of drink driving earlier this year, for apparently trying to highlight the problem of binge-drinking elephants in north-eastern India.
Activists said the celebrity endorsement would raise awareness of the plight of pachyderms that got drunk on farmers' homemade rice beer and went on the rampage.
Last month, six wild elephants that broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya were electrocuted after discovering and drinking the potent brew before uprooting an electricity pylon.
"There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn't chased them away," Hilton was quoted as saying in Tokyo last week according to a report posted on the World Entertainment News Network website. "And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad.
"The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them."
It is so good to see Paris Hilton redeeming herself with such grand causes. My god...
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