A wild elephant was filmed sneaking into a village home in India to steal rice. <br /><br />Natarajan, a farmer of the Thadagam village in Coimbatore, India, had a problem. Someone was stealing the food. Vegetables, fruits, and grains he would occasionally leave outside his home after harvest would all disappear.<br /><br />Fed up with the thief, who would sneak in after everyone went to sleep, Natarajan’s family left some rice outside and kept vigil.<br /><br />To their surprise, the thief turned out to be a well-known wild elephant which roams the neighbourhood, and even has a name, ‘Vinayaka.’ <br /><br />The elephant tip-toed in and reached out to rice kept in a sack with its trunk and started gobbling it. <br /><br />Like a true thief, it also promptly fled after the alarmed residents made some noise. <br /><br />A family member said that in its greed to steal rice, the elephant had eaten some fertilizer as well, which was kept next to the sack of grains.<br /><br />The footage was captured on October 20.
