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Drunken Elk Worries
Children
'Wharrayou lookin' at? Whazza problem? I'll fight
yez... I'll fight yez all, ya basstars...' |
Schoolchildren in Sweden are
being terrorised by an elk. That would be bad news in itself,
but this case gets worse – because the elk is drunk.
According to staff at the school in Gothenburg, the elk has been
lurking around the school for days, including sleeping in the
school doorway and frightening the children.
Swedish news source The Local reports that staff have described
the elk as 'completely crazy.' Eventually, as the animal got
more aggressive, the elk-terror became so bad that the school
authorities called in the police. The cops quickly came up with
a theory explaining the elk's disreputable behaviour.
Police commander Jan Caiman said: 'We believe that the apple
trees in the gardens have a part to play in this.'
'It was probably the apples that lured the elk over there in the
first place. That could be the root of the problem. We may be
dealing with an alco-elk.' The theory is that the apples that
have fallen to the ground during the autumn may well have
fermented – with the result that an elk eating too many of them
quickly becomes drunker than a teenager swigging White Lightning
behind the bus shelter.
Caiman hopes that, given time, the elk will decide it's had
enough and sleep it off, before its behaviour becomes so rowdy
that it has to be put down.
It's not the first drunk elk that Caiman's had to deal with in
his time. He remembered one previous incident: 'A home-owner had
raked up a big pile of plums. In the middle of the pile lay a
one year old calf. It was absolutely plastered.'
Found at:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=25216&in_page_id=2
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