# Beer and high voltage power lines are a bad combination **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828 "2004-01-23T22:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828/1 "2004-01-23T22:37:55Z")
From the [BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3423881.stm), comes news that > [@](#): > > Four wild elephants drunk on rice beer have been electrocuted in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya, wildlife officials report. There’e a lesson in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828/2 "2004-01-23T23:25:38Z")
Not even the bear suit would help you in that one. Do I even want to ask _how_ 4 elephants got drunk on _rice beer_? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828/3 "2004-01-23T23:32:05Z")
This is one of the reasons that elephants are not allowed in bars in PA. Besides not being able to hold their liquor, they never have their IDs (“Uh, it’s in my other pants.”) and they’ve broken more than their share of bar stools. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828/4 "2004-01-24T00:03:16Z")
Wow how much rice beer would an elephant have to drink to piss 0.1? And second why does the village have that much rice beer lying about? And how did this area develop such an alcoholic problem for the elephants. They need to do a 12 step program for elephants. 1. Admitted they were powerless over rice beer 2. They came to admit that the power lines is a power greater than themselves. 3. Decided to turn their lives over to a searching for the Elephant burial grounds. 4. List all of the peole they had personally been responsible for stampeeding in their search for rice beer. I have started the list, others can have the fun of continuing it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828/5 "2004-01-24T00:47:22Z")
This has been happening for at least 6 years! [1998 BBC article.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/241781.stm) Good grief. Time for the villagers to go on the wagon, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-and-high-voltage-power-lines-are-a-bad-combination/225828/6 "2004-01-24T00:50:59Z")
“Hi. I’m Jumbo, and I have a drinking problem.” _Welcome, Jumbo. A chorus of applause with a few trumpetings follows._