Posted on 07/23/2008 9:03:23 AM PDT by Ron Jeremy
Drunken elk meets sorry end after toddler attack
Published: 23 Jul 08 12:10 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/13222/
A drunken elk paid dearly after attacking a toddler playing in a sand pit at her home in Kungälv in western Sweden on Monday.
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Three-year-old Nova was playing in her backyard sandbox when a young elk calf attacked and bit her.
"It bit me on the arm," the terrified toddler said to the Aftonbladet newspaper.
The girls mother, Maria Schelin, was close by and reacted quickly to save her child from further danger.
"I suddenly heard a loud scream. I threw myself over the hedge, grabbed Nova and ran back into the house," Schelin.
The elk, which was apparently drunk after having binged on yeasted apples, made a swift, if somewhat stumbling, getaway from the family's terraced house in the quiet town of Kungälv outside of Gothenburg.
According to Hans von Essen at the Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management (Svenska Jägareförbundet) it is not uncommon for elk to roam in residential areas.
"But I have never heard of anyone being bitten, that is very unusual," he explained.
"The risk is more that an elk can rush forwards and kick out with its front legs."
The dangerous beast had been spotted nearby on several occasions prior to the attack and returned to the area later that day in an apparent search for more apples.
This time, however, local residents took no chances and a group of hunters shot the inebriated elk, putting an end to any further neighbourhood terror.
Little Nova escaped the incident with a bruise on her arm but the whole experience had given her quite a shock.
"She just sat and trembled," said the girl's mother.
TT/Peter Vinthagen Simpson (news@thelocal.se)
It was a moose.
Is it an elk? Is it a moose? If youre in Sweden, the answer is BOTH! The iconic, majestic forest dweller Alces alces is known as a moose in North America (actually the sub-species Alces alces americana) and an elk in Europe.
Reindeer is carabou; elk is moose; moose is squirrel friend; squirrel is nutz: everythig in Europe is crazy.
He looks like he’s about to be a very flat dog...
Just the other day I saw him driving.
Attempting to train elk to self-marinate.
Why do you ask?
Thanks for the ping.
I think you succeeded!
So, are we going to see those “an elk once bit my sister” comments for the next 5 years?
Absolutely not!
But an elk did bite my tøddler.
it was a moose. the animal we call moose is what the Europeans call an elk. What they call a Red Deer is close to(can interbreed with) what we call an elk.
Who cares what we call them or how they get to the dinner table?
Did he get to the table or is he still out tenderizing himself?
:)
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