A herd of elephants drunk on rice beer trampled three people to death during a rampage through a village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.<br />
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Residents of Teok Kathoni tried to scare them off using drums and firecrackers, but the elephants consumed the remote village?s stocks of rice beer, then charged through huts, squashing several people.<br />
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Back in 2001, we informed you of another <a href="https://www.briansbelly.com/news/archive2001.shtml"><strong>drunken elephant stampede</strong></a> that killed four villagers from the same state of Assam.<br />
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In the past five years elephants have killed 239 people in Assam. I was trying to use this number to determine if drunken elephants were safer to be around than drunken drivers in the US–or safer than being around my drunken buddies–but math was never my strong thingy.
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