Saturday 28 November 2009

The perfect alibi ...

Spotted by JuliaM at the BBC:

A Swedish man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife has been cleared, after police decided she was probably killed by an elk...

The European elk, or moose, is usually considered to be shy and will normally run away from humans. But Swedish Radio International says the animals can become aggressive after eating fermented fallen apples in gardens.


Mr Westlund and the elk were last seen setting off on a luxury round the world cruise. Allegedly.

5 comments:

James Higham said...

I do appreciate your more serious posts like this, Mark.

The Hickory Wind said...

I did warn you about the elk, you know. And now they've got a taste for the booze, it's only a matter of time before they're hanging around in gangs on street corners frightening the elderly and strewing the parks with needles and broken glass... I think I´ll go and lie down.

Pavlov's Cat said...

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo Dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".

Sorry couldn't resist it

James Higham said...

Pavlov's Cat - is that really true?

Pavlov's Cat said...

No it's not, I don't have a sister

However it is true that these words are in the Opening Credits to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, yes it is