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11/13/2007: "Paris The Pachyderm Protector?"

Remember back when Paris Hilton did her time in the slam? After getting out, she blanketed the media outlets with interviews where she said she'd found God and would dedicate herself to humanitarian work. Well, I can't speak for the Big Man, but apparently Paris has found her calling - drunken elephants. In Tokyo to whore ... er, hype ... something, she made statements about her desire to help elephants in Northern India who break into the native's stills and swill up the swill.

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

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.

This is funny on so many levels that I'm not sure where to start.

UPDATE: Big surprise - Hilton's people are claiming that she never made the comments. They probably did the damage control because of the wonderfully positive press it's been getting (I'm one of the nicer reviewers she'd had). Frankly, I knew it was false - way too many facts in that little speech of hers ...