Elephant Antics

I have a habit of dismissing most tales I hear on the news of drunken disorderly behaviour, preferring to think of it as just another one of those things. Or fun. One of the two.

But when an animal much larger than me becomes likewise intoxicating, I think pretty much anyone would avoid it.

And when the animal is more than ten times the size of most sumo wrestlers, you should probably just run, preferably screaming and crying in terror as you do.

This is the fate that befell the village of Dumurkota in India when a herd of elephants somehow (no one quite knows how) managed to drink more than 500 litres of moonshine alcohol (a brew called mahua locally), and promptly went on a rampage through the town, destroying three houses, a shop, and ruining acres of crops in a frantic search for more booze.

Police noted that the animals became more aggressive after their drinking session. Who would have thought it.

I'm more worried about how exactly they got hold of the alcohol. Are their giant open topped vats of moonshine in India's rural villages? If so surely there would be more universities about.

Either way they seem to be having fun.