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Drunk Badger Blocks German Road
AFP ^ | 7/8/09

Posted on 07/08/2009 12:34:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

German police called to clear a road of a dead badger found the animal in question had in fact gorged itself on over-ripe, fermented cherries and, blind drunk, staggered out into the middle of the road.

"The animal's stomach had turned the fruit to alcohol and the badger was, to put it crudely, drunk as a skunk," said a police statement on Wednesday. "In addition, the badger was suffering from diarrhoea studded with cherry stones."

Prodding the reluctant beast with a stick, officers managed to persuade it to leave the road near the town of Goslar in northwestern Germany and to sleep off his night of excess in a nearby meadow.

"It could not immediately be established whether the badger got into trouble with his wife when he came home in such a state,"

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: badger; fermentation; germany; napl
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To: nickcarraway

This also happens with birds and banyan trees and the berries. I am not sure if it also happens with seagrapes. Birds like doves like the berries and they can get tipsy.


21 posted on 07/08/2009 12:45:23 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: nickcarraway
"In addition, the badger was suffering from diarrhoea studded with cherry stones."

I hate it when that happens.

22 posted on 07/08/2009 12:46:30 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (Apparently singing Oliva Newton John's "Heartattack" is inappropriate in cardiac rehab. Who knew?)
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To: nickcarraway

Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ Badgers!


23 posted on 07/08/2009 12:46:49 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: CougarGA7

I’m amazed there isn’t a ping list for such things.


24 posted on 07/08/2009 12:47:19 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: savedbygrace

Never mind drunk, most badgers are mean sober.


25 posted on 07/08/2009 12:47:21 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: nickcarraway

We don't need no stinking badgers!

26 posted on 07/08/2009 12:48:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
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To: WayneS

You betcha.


27 posted on 07/08/2009 12:48:36 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: nickcarraway

Poking a badger, drunk or sober, with a stick, is just a bad idea, and liable to leave you bandaged up before it’s over.


28 posted on 07/08/2009 12:51:55 PM PDT by SoDak (Molon Labe)
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To: nickcarraway

“Badger????”

“I don’t even know her!!”


29 posted on 07/08/2009 12:52:39 PM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: nickcarraway

I got charged at once by a belligerent drunk groundhog who had been gorging on fallen apples. Fortunately, he was none too steady on his pegs, and he kept falling on his nose. I don’t think he appreciated my laughing at him either...


30 posted on 07/08/2009 12:53:30 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: nickcarraway

31 posted on 07/08/2009 12:53:36 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Too sick for words!)
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To: nickcarraway

“In addition, the badger was suffering from diarrhoea studded with cherry stones.”

I’ll bet that was the pits.


32 posted on 07/08/2009 12:54:23 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: Lazamataz
Badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger...

Mushroom!

Snaaaaake!

33 posted on 07/08/2009 12:56:31 PM PDT by Allegra ( Socks)
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To: Allegra

The best part about that song was the insightful, touching lyrics.


34 posted on 07/08/2009 12:57:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Too sick for words!)
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To: Hegemony Cricket
PETA is all over you.

Did he see his own five o'clock shadow?

35 posted on 07/08/2009 1:08:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Boozy Badger Blocks Bavarian Blacktop?


36 posted on 07/08/2009 1:55:34 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: nickcarraway

When he wakes in the morning, he won’t remember a thing about it.


37 posted on 07/08/2009 2:38:37 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: count-your-change
You work for Variety?
38 posted on 07/08/2009 2:47:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com


39 posted on 07/08/2009 2:58:25 PM PDT by packrat35 (Nancy Pelosi is a liar!)
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To: nickcarraway; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...


40 posted on 07/08/2009 8:07:31 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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