More Moose Madness
Drunken moose terrorizes small school in Sweden!
"That could be the problem. We could be dealing with a boozy elk," Jan Caiman, a police officer in Molndal, told the national news agency TT.
The elk was probably eating fermented apples in a garden and had become inebriated, Caiman said.
Elk can weigh as much as 500 kilos (1,100 lb) and personnel at the school described the erratic male as "completely mad."
"The children are really scared," the receptionist at the school near Molndal in southern Sweden told the Gothenburg Post.
You know what it means when the moose are hitting the bottle, don't you? The animal uprising is getting overconfident and throwing early celebrations. Fermented apples, indeed. I'll bet if they follow the tracks back they'll find a couple of empty aquavit bottles.
(Incidentally, the Swedes call them elk, but they are alces alces or the common moose. Norwegians use the same term. Your odd factoid for the day.)
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Words Of Wisdom From Animal House — Thursday, 23 November , 2006 @ 12:44 pm
By Lars Walker, Monday, 13 November , 2006 @ 4:02 pm
I heard an announcer reading headlines on our local talk station yesterday, and she read it as a “drunken elf,” which is no less bizarre. The elves are certainly in league with the animals.