Drunken Moose Becoming Big Problem

[matcom]

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A DRUNK moose staggering through your backyard and nibbling on apples fallen from your tree may sound like an amusing anecdote to tell your friends, but for those Swedes who each autumn come face to face with the angry beasts, it's no laughing matter.

An encounter with an intoxicated moose can, as strange as it might seem, leave your living room in a shambles and leave you battered and bruised if not dead.

About 300,000 moose, or elk as they're known in Europe, roam Sweden's woods. But every northern autumn at least a few of the normally timid animals end up astray, trudging out of the woods and into cities and suburbs where they gladly munch on fermented apples that have fallen from trees.

The result is an intoxicated and aggressive brute.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11329936%255E13762,00.html

[itzamirakul]

1. I would love to see...

Either Bush or Rice meet up with one.

[pleiku52cab]

2. Its Clinton's fault

[indigobusiness]

3. Drunken moose have been a big problem

for a long time. But nothing like the problem of drunken Swedes.