Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#1Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:05pm
She's such a humanitarian........ the next Margaret Meade, I tell you......
"GAUHATI, India - Paris Hilton is being praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India.
Activists said a celebrity endorsement such as Hilton's was sure to raise awareness of the plight of the pachyderms that get drunk on farmers' homemade rice beer and then go on a rampage.
"The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them," the 26-year-old socialite said in a report posted on World Entertainment News Network's Web site. Her comments were picked up by other Web sites and newspapers around the globe.
Last month, six wild elephants that broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya were electrocuted after drinking the potent brew and then uprooting an electricity pole.
"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," Hilton was quoted as saying in Tokyo last week. She was in Tokyo to judge a beauty contest.
Her publicist couldn't immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
Hilton promised to improve her bad-girl image after she completed a jail term in June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
She announced plans to do charity work in Rwanda, but the trip was postponed until next year.
Sangeeta Goswami, head of animal rights group People for Animals, told The Associated Press: "I am indeed happy Hilton has taken note of recent incidents of wild elephants in northeast India going berserk after drinking homemade rice beer and getting killed."
"As part of her global elephant campaign, Hilton should, in fact, think of visiting this region literally infested with elephants," Goswami said.
Another conservationist said elephant alcohol abuse was just a symptom of the real problem.
"Elephants appear on human settlements ... because they have no habitat left due to wanton destruction of forests," said Soumyadeep Dutta, who heads Nature's Beckon, a leading regional conservation group.
"A celebrity like Hilton must focus her attention on this fact," Dutta said."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_en_tv/people_paris_hilton_2
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Updated On: 11/13/07 at 02:05 PM
#2re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:14pmAn animal rights group leader is complaining that elephants are "infesting" their natural habitat? Oy. That's more disconcerting than Paris's cries for elephant rehab.
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#2re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:16pmyikes...drunk elephants AND marauding monkeys.
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BroadwayBound86
Leading Actor Joined: 1/24/07
#3re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:25pm
What about other animals. For instance a monkey. Shouldn't their drinking issues be delt with as well?!
What is the world coming to?!
etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#4re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:26pmVoiceanth, what did you do to Margo? How did you get hold of her password?
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#5re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:27pm
Paris, worry about the drunken rampaging pachyderms closer to home....
#6re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:29pmSo, the message is 'don't drink and charge'?
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#7re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:57pmYou sure she realizes they are elephants and not the Kardashian family?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#8re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 3:46pmI bet she was upset to find out that the elephants were not, in fact, pink.
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LaurenB
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/04
#9re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 3:55pm
"I bet she was upset to find out that the elephants were not, in fact, pink."
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Posted: 11/13/07 at 3:58pm
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 3:59pmObviously Paris Hilton.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#12re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 4:18pm"One of your own kind, stick to your own kind..."
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#13re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 6:08pmThank God she's not trying to help anyone in this country.
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#14re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 6:11pmI swear to god i read taht as "Shave Druken Elephants"
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 6:59pmWhy don't the elephants go to AA?
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#16re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 7:33pmThe title of this thread seems so appropriate for Ms. Hilton
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#17re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 7:39pmIt's just perfect for her cause célèbre, ain't it?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#18re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 7:51pm#19re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 8:21pm
"Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India."
...It was in Indiana.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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BroadwayBound86
Leading Actor Joined: 1/24/07
#20re: Paris Hilton Tries To Save Drunken Elephants
Posted: 11/13/07 at 8:27pmPerhaps she was refering to the drunks in Hollywood instead? I swear they treat rehab likes it's a vacation.
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