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A homeowner in southern Sweden got a shock when he found a drunken elk stuck in his neighbour’s apple tree.
The moose was apparently on the hunt for fermenting apples when she lost her balance and became trapped in the tree.
Per Johansson, from Saro near Gothenburg, found the elk making a roaring noise in the garden next door.
He called the emergency services, who helped him free the boozed-up beast by sawing off branches. She spent the night recovering in the garden.
The next day she took herself off into the woods with her hangover.
Drunken elk are not an uncommon sight in Sweden during autumn, when there are plenty of apples about.
Other residents of Saro had seen the elk on the loose in the preceding days.
Mr Johansson said the elk appeared to be sick, drunk, or “half-stupid”, the Associated Press reported.
Another elk got drunk and killed a woman a couple years ago.
on_edge
September 8, 2011, 8:35pm
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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Another elk got drunk and killed a woman a couple years ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/europe/8384143.stm[/quote]
If only this was a porn video
“The European elk, or moose, is usually considered to be shy and will normally run away from humans. But Swedish Radio International says the animals can become aggressive after eating fermented fallen apples in gardens.”
Me and these elk have a lot in common
Just don’t get drunk and kill anybody, Irish.
Hahahahaha, but they should have eaten the damn thing!
If an elk is drunk and you eat enough meat, do you get drunk yourself?
That would be the awesome-est thing ever.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Another elk got drunk and killed a woman a couple years ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/europe/8384143.stm[/quote]
Haha before I read the article I imagined a drunken moose falling out of a tree onto the poor woman.
We can’t be too judgmental of the elk here.
Drunk off fermented, rotten fruit and lodged in a tree - happens to the best of us!
there’s an actual city called gothenburg?
iKor
September 12, 2011, 10:00pm
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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
there’s an actual city called gothenburg?[/quote]
Yes, but the name is referring to this kind of goths:
The Goths (Gothic: 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, romanized: Gutþiuda; Latin: Gothi, Ancient Greek: Γότθοι) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
In his book Getica (c. 551), the historian Jordanes writes that the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia, but the accuracy of this account is unclear. A people called the Gutones – possibly early Goths – are documented living near the lower Vistula River in the 1st century, where t...
not the other kind.
system
September 13, 2011, 4:42am
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I like how they use “Swedish” as a euphemism for “irish”
Clever!
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I like how they use “Swedish” as a euphemism for “irish”
Clever![/quote]
hahahhahahaha