Posted on 09/25/2011 1:58:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An elk drunk from eating fermented apples in southern Sweden ended its binge by making off with a family's swing set and hiding it in the woods. Hunter in hand-to-hoof battle with angry elk (12 Sep 11) Drunken elk rescued from Swede's apple tree (7 Sep 11) 'Leffe the moose man' promises elk intimacy (6 Sep 11) A homeowner from Storebro in northern Kalmar County arrived home on Wednesday night to find his garden littered with bits of apple and other signs that an elk had been partying in his back yard, the local Östran and Barometern newspapers reported.
The concerned homeowner also discovered that the children's swing set which normally sat in the yard was missing.
The man immediately called police, who contacted a local hunter to track down the inebriated elk who was thought to possibly be injured.
Drunken elk are common in Sweden during the autumn season when fermenting apples are plentiful, both on the ground and hanging from the branches of trees which many Swedes have in their yards.
While police and the hunter failed to meet up with the prank-playing elk, they did eventually find the family's swing set, propped up in a tree deep in the woods about 500 metres from their home.
Ah, the corn field.
The man in the black pants will go away soon.
Never got to read Nivens work.
No, we had to read Hemingway and then we were expected to state what a great writer he was.
Needles to say, when I said I wasn’t impressed with Hemingway I was given an F.
The grumpy, huffing, shuffling black suited growch.
Who seems to like my garbage can despite it having ammonia sprayed into it.
Though he won’t touch anything inside it because of the ammonia.
Thread has been pulled.
Hmm.
What a beauty!
God Bless her all her life. :-)
Yes, it was in time. Joann was very pleased.
A drunk elk... a swingset could look pretty good to a drunk elk.
beautiful!
I read me some Hemingway over the summer.
Some of it was interesting. Papa didn’t exactly hold me in thrall, though.
If you’re familiar with what Heinlein had to do to trim “Stranger In A Strange Land” down to a size the publishers would accept, and then try to reduce it to a third of that, ... well, it would tell a story, but no one would read it.
I checked out “Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway” from the library, but didn’t get around to reading it before it was due back. Maybe next time.
I didn’t like “A Farewell to Arms” a bit, although the movie of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” was okay: good cast.
Drunken elk whistling from trees they are trapped in.
That could get someone into trouble with the ladies.
How many sentences of six words each can you read before really hankering for something adult?
That teacher was an absolute mind numbed fanboy.
And if you weren’t a fanboy too, she ganked your grade for it.
Yes, that’s part of the problem. Tolkien, now ... he could really put together a compound-complex sentence.
The other problem was having a book in which I didn’t like a single character, and there wasn’t even a murder mystery.
That’s sad. Now I have ashes of chew toy in my mouth. “Poof!”
I know!
The thread went up in smoke, as did our subject.
*sigh*
Yup. “Fountain of Smart” has departed. I guess the Mods were in a meeting during the little time this one scurried about.
They had the stereo blasting.
Why do I think that at your house, "stereo blasting" involves pyrotechnics?
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