# Elephants Loot Trucks
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephants-loot-trucks/388007
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 15, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephants-loot-trucks/388007 "2007-01-15T00:45:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephants-loot-trucks/388007/1 "2007-01-15T00:45:52Z")
Punks.
I’m sure drugs were behind it.
[Link.](http://teakdoor.com/thailands-national-parks/10198-khao-ang-rue-nai-elephants-loot.html)
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephants-loot-trucks/388007/2 "2007-01-15T00:50:55Z")
Can’t they find a way to transport food to the elephants? ☹ They are desperate, and driven by starvation. I think if I were starving, and saw trucks carrying food going by I’d be tempted to hold them up and gorge myself too, _especially_ if I had offspring that were also starving.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephants-loot-trucks/388007/3 "2007-01-15T02:25:39Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane]
Can’t they find a way to transport food to the elephants?
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Closing the road at night will save some of them. If you are interested, here is a link to [Elephant News](http://www.elephant-news.com/?) where I found the link.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephants-loot-trucks/388007/4 "2007-01-31T03:40:16Z")
Now with photographs and [sad news.](http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=240678)