Spotted by Sue in The Local - Sweden's News In English:
A homeowner from Storebro in northern Kalmar County arrived home on Wednesday night to find his garden littered with bits of apple and other signs that an elk had been partying in his back yard, the local Östran and Barometern newspapers reported.
The concerned homeowner also discovered that the children's swing set which normally sat in the yard was missing. The man immediately called police, who contacted a local hunter to track down the inebriated elk who was thought to possibly be injured.
Drunken elk are common in Sweden during the autumn season when fermenting apples are plentiful, both on the ground and hanging from the branches of trees which many Swedes have in their yards.
While police and the hunter failed to meet up with the prank-playing elk, they did eventually find the family's swing set, propped up in a tree deep in the woods about 500 metres from their home.
Possibly one of the greatest headlines of the modern era.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
"Drunken elk hides kids' swing set in a tree"
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2 comments:
And Swedes are suposed to be boring? That's class. All we get are crop circles.
I grew up in rural Norway, and when I was yay high we had a hungover elk (moose) sleeping in the garden once, it woke up startled when we came out to annoy it and did a rather limping half-run back into the woods. Priceless memory. Ofcourse what followed was the attempts at inebriating other animals on the farm, the dog, some cows... nothing I'm proud of...
KJ
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