Report: Elk Has Bar Stool Stuck On Head

TheDenverChannel ^ | February 15, 2009 | staff reporter

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DENVER -- While no one is exactly sure how it happened, officials near Eagle say there is a cow elk wandering around with a bar stool stuck on its head.

The elk was first seen on a conservation easement property south of the Eagle Ice Rink, reported the Vail Daily.

Resident Bill Johnson told the newspaper that he saw the elk with the metal bar stool stuck on her head from his house. The legs were pointed up and the elk's head was pushed through the metal rig that holds the legs together, he said.

Johnson said the stool didn’t seem to prevent the elk from grazing or moving around.

“Apparently she is fully mobile,” Colorado Division of Wildlife officer Craig Wescoatt told the Daily. Wescoatt said he has been receiving reports about the animal for several days.

Efforts to get near the animal have not been successful. When approached, the elk scampers away.

“She’s very active. The bar stool doesn’t seem to be impairing her to any great degree,” he observed. “She just looks kind of goofy.”

Wescoatt said he has not had any reported sightings of the animal in recent days, although several callers have suggested that perhaps the elk picked up the stool during a visit to a local saloon.

[Daffynition]

Not the elk in the story ... but apparently this is common...

[Brad’s Gramma]

I do NOT know why I think of youse when I read this stuff...

[JennysCool]

Probably got it at the Elks Club.

[NonValueAdded]

I bear it happens to Moose and Shriners, too.

[NonValueAdded]

hear ... what a stupid idiot, I blow a great one-liner. Well, it’s pretty hard to type with a barstool stuck to my head.

[VicVega]

Did he steal it from the club or do you think it is BYOBS rules?

[arealconservativeforachange]

Speaking of bar stools.....

How do you get 4 log cabin republicans to sit on the same stool?

Turn it upside down.

[Trteamer]

Give me a permit and a 30.06 and I’ll get that bar stool back. I could use it by my BBQ.

[dfwgator]

I have no idea what you’re talking about so....

[JoeProBono]

[bobby.223]

not much as bar stools go but I am usually tipped over anyway.

[VRWC For Truth]

Just the Elk Of Tomorrow (EOT).

[Terriergal]

hey that’s a red stag not an elk!

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[JoeProBono]

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[valkyry1]

Were you involved in this in any way ;)

[NavyCanDo]

Pinging myself for later reading

[Daffynition]

Would you say that if you knew I was a Bride of Christ?

[Terriergal]

ah, never mind the face seems wrong for a red deer. I guess it probably is an elk... but the lemurs (or whatever they are) are photoshopped.