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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoose that really need to lay off the sauce
from Grist:
http://grist.org/list/forget-teens-you-should-be-worried-about-drunk-moose-gangs/
Forget teens; you should be worried about drunk moose gangs
By Sarah Laskow
If theres one thing that humans and moose can agree on, its that one of the best parts of fall is seasonal, quite alcoholic cider. But while humans prefer getting tizzy on fermented apples only if theyve been turned into juice and put into nice bottles, moose are quite content to eat them off the tree and get totally, totally smashed.
This is a problem every year around Stockholm, apparently. One got caught in a swing set; hunters later found what remained of the swing set hung up in a tree about 500 metres (about a third of a mile) from the house. This one just got stuck in a tree himself:
Drunk moose can be a danger to themselves. (One wandered into a pond and drowned.) But they can also be dangerous to humans, when they, for instance, hang out in hordes in the front yards of neighbors, as one police officer in Stockholm reported:
Five drunken elk were threatening a resident who was barred from entering his own home, read an incident report on the website of the Stockholm police department.
Police who arrived on the scene reported that the animals had been warned that the police were on their way and wisely decided to leave the address, the report read.
We can only imagine what they were doing to the flowerbeds before they decided to go find more apples.
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Moose that really need to lay off the sauce (Original Post)
marmar
Sep 2013
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I herd somebody asked them if they wanted to get high on apples. They replied, "We're game."
pinboy3niner
Sep 2013
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wandy
(3,539 posts)1. Look on the bright side. Drunk off their ass moose rairly..........
try to drive. They don't have concealed carry permits either.
Usually they just sleep it off in the back yard then come around begging coffee and aspirin the next morning.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. I herd somebody asked them if they wanted to get high on apples. They replied, "We're game."
longship
(40,416 posts)4. I see what you did there.
You clever person.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)5. I call bull!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)9. He cows before your wrath.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)3. Horses will also get drunk eating apples.
I worked at a stables years ago. There was a rut worn into the ground in a circle around the apple tree that was in the horse field.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)10. Bluejays in Texas swill down past-ripe figs in summer...
Raise a lot of hell, and go into ritual mating dances -- but no one is there!
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)11. Ever seen a drunk elephant? their digestive system is fairly slow
and allows overripe fruit to ferment.
And like humans there are those who are fighting drunks. Now I am talking about 6-10 tons of mad. Usually you can get them to move away from villages, but I had to put down two who were tearing up bombas and attacking villagers. Always a big investigation, but the smell of alcohol from the carcass is unmistakeable.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)13. Ever seen a drunk elephant?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)7. Maybe it's just some bad vodka
they got from Boris Badenov
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)8. NYTimes had article that talked in part about animals getting addicted
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)12. The Moose Is Loose!