CORRECTED: Paris Hilton draws attention to drunken elephant problem

With the memory of a jail stay that resulted from a drunken driving incident to fresh in her fertile mind, the socialite is doing what she does best--draw attention to herself--and this time, drunken elephants as well.

It's a big problem in India. Last month, six naughty elephants broke into a farm in India, and quenched their thirst by guzzling some home-made rice beer. Acting like college students on a Saturday night, the pachyderms raised hell for a while, until they uprooted an electrical pole--which electrocuted the elephants.

Here's what Hilton says, courtesy of AP:

The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them.

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There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn't chased them away. And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad.

And here is an incident in 2002 where six people were trampled to death by intoxicated elephants.

CORRECTION Nov. 14 9:19 PM Drunken elephants are indeed a problem, but apparently Paris Hilton has never spoken out against drunken pachyderms.

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