BBC:
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 following day she found her legs and left the garden.
So was it a moose or an elk? Apparently, the dumbasses at the BBC aren’t aware that there’s a difference.
Must be pledge week.
I did that once.
I wonder how many fermented apples it would take to get a moose (or elk) drunk. I mean, those things aren’t lightweights. Or are they, figuratively speaking?
It’s an elk. In Sweden, what we call elk, they call moose. The Local (Swedish news in English) called it a moose, too.
Arg. I meant what we call moose, they call elk.
@4, I doubt they get much of an opportunity to build up a tolerance, so they may well be lightweights. As, it appears, our friend Irena is (or at least was when she got stuck in that tree).
@5/6, thanks for clearing up the confusion. Ahem.
I wish I were a lightweight! It would save me a lot of money if I could keep my wine consumption down to 1-2 glasses three times a week instead of 1-2 bottles. But compared to you, 5280, I’m sure I’m in the dew of my drinking youth.
But oh, I’ve found myself in some compromising positions with trees, all right. You don’t know the half of it.
In Norway a runner was recently attacked by an elk while participating in a race. There’s a beautiful picture of runner and elk on this Swedish news website: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/articl…
In Norway, elks are king of the forest (according to Google Translate)
@9: Wow.
Mind you, elk bites can be pretty nasty.
On my way to work this morning, a moose stopped traffic on a four-lane road just to get to the other side.
Antlers in The Tree by Who Goosed the Moose.