Spotted by Peter Risdon in The Daily Telegraph:
A female hunter accidentally shot dead 70-year-old cross-country skier when a bullet she fired ricocheted off an elk and struck the victim, according to reports.
Police were investigating the incident and the account given by the female hunter and her companion about the bullet first striking the elk and then bouncing off to hit the skier, killing the man instantly...
Who would have thought that an elk would be capable of the intricate maths required to achieve this feat, which is presumably about ten thousand times more difficult than heading a football into the goal?
Click the 'elks' label for the other story involving a Scandinavian elk and a violent death.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
A carefully placed antler...
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7 comments:
It would be much safer just to stick a drinking straw up the bum. Of the elk I mean, not the skier.
D, that's frogs, not elks.
Pretty sure the principle is sound, but you'd need to scale up the size of the straw. Not to mention the amount of puff needed..,
Not really surprising that the elk could work it out.
Not when you've see a brain dead soon to be detained at HMYO young person managing to work out all the permutations of mass, velocity and angle required to pot a pool ball.
re Banned @ 09.00
But lots of practice went into making that pot. The elk got it right the first (and only) time.
"hunter accidentally shot dead 70-year-old cross-country skier when a bullet she fired ricocheted off an elk"
It's hard to see how you could possibly improve that line. Ambrose Bierce couldn't have written it better.
Now the boars are getting in on the act.
El Reg
(plus some more deer)
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