Posted on 11/24/2005 8:06:14 AM PST by Rodney King
Swedish family is being plagued by a fairly common Norwegian problem, the drunken moose.
Laila von Scheele no longer dares let her children out of the house, for fear of an unfortunate encounter with the plastered visitor that frequents their garden.
"I am terrified. It can be dangerous when it's drunk," von Scheele told Swedish newspaper Expressen.
The last five nights in a row the same moose has entered their property in Ekerö, west of Stockholm. It helps itself to the fallen fruit from the family's ten apple trees.
As frequently is the case in Norway, the decomposing fruit have begun to ferment, and the result is a tipsy moose. The animal eats all it can, stumbles around the yard and finally falls asleep.
"It stays there until sunrise," von Scheele said.
The family has tried in vain to frighten the animal off, but so far has instead been forced to stay indoors. "I have three children, a cat, a grown dog and six puppies. I don't want any of them to be trampled or injured by the moose," von Scheele told the paper.
This is funny. In college, there was a huge picture window in the rec center, and outside the window was a tree with berries growing from it. The berries would spoil and ferment, birds would eat them, then get so drunk they'd fly full-force into the window, breaking their necks. You could sit at the window and just watch the kamikaze birds kill themselves. Nature sucks.
Have you been letting the Mooses at the medicinal Brandy, again, Commander?
Hope you are well and with friends today, buddy.
Why don't they clean up the fallen fruit?
Why don't they pick up the fallen fruit and go make cider in the basement?
Yo, Laila! How about going out and picking up that nasty decomposing fruit off the ground before your kids start snacking on it. It's a very simple concept - no fruit, no moose.
My old man used to tell me of drunken horses when he grew up on the farm.
That would be work. This is Sweden. The government pays her to sit on her rear all day, not pick things up off of the ground.
Why don't they just shoot the moose?
LOL! Living in the Pacific Northwest, we know about moose and how dangerous they are when they are not drunk! But a drunk moose . . . now that would be an especially scary encounter!
American minds think alike!
Nothing worse than a loose moose on the juice.
We had an apple tree in our back yard back in the day. Ecch! If there's anything you DON'T want it's a fruit tree... rotten apples everywhere.
Yeah, well, it's early in the day on Thanksgiving. We'll all have to report back with our "Drunken Moose Relatives" stories at the end of the day, LOL!
Aside from being the end of the 'peach brandy project', it was funny until they leaned against the pickup--stove the whole side in..!
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