Posted on 07/23/2008 9:03:23 AM PDT by Ron Jeremy
Drunken elk meets sorry end after toddler attack
Published: 23 Jul 08 12:10 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/13222/
A drunken elk paid dearly after attacking a toddler playing in a sand pit at her home in Kungälv in western Sweden on Monday.
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Three-year-old Nova was playing in her backyard sandbox when a young elk calf attacked and bit her.
"It bit me on the arm," the terrified toddler said to the Aftonbladet newspaper.
The girl’s mother, Maria Schelin, was close by and reacted quickly to save her child from further danger.
"I suddenly heard a loud scream. I threw myself over the hedge, grabbed Nova and ran back into the house," Schelin.
The elk, which was apparently drunk after having binged on yeasted apples, made a swift, if somewhat stumbling, getaway from the family's terraced house in the quiet town of Kungälv outside of Gothenburg.
According to Hans von Essen at the Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management (Svenska Jägareförbundet) it is not uncommon for elk to roam in residential areas.
"But I have never heard of anyone being bitten, that is very unusual," he explained.
"The risk is more that an elk can rush forwards and kick out with its front legs."
The dangerous beast had been spotted nearby on several occasions prior to the attack and returned to the area later that day in an apparent search for more apples.
This time, however, local residents took no chances and a group of hunters shot the inebriated elk, putting an end to any further neighbourhood terror.
Little Nova escaped the incident with a bruise on her arm but the whole experience had given her quite a shock.
"She just sat and trembled," said the girl's mother.
TT/Peter Vinthagen Simpson (news@thelocal.se)
Sad.
I got here as soon as I could...somebody needed a moose?
}:-)4
We have got to do something about this! I recommend raising the elk drinking age to at least 4. Any elk younger than that is just not responsible enough to handle the rotted fruit and you end up with disasters like this.
Mind you, elk bites kan be pretti nasti.
Mønti Pythøn lk den Hølie Grailen
Røtern nik Akten Di
Wik
Alsø wik
Alsø alsø wik
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals
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Including the majestic møøse
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
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Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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Shouldn't that be:
"An elk bit my tøddler"
There's a headline you don't see every day. Those toddlers can be lethal to wildlife. ;)
Your pancake fell off, dude.
I’m sure your toddler could take down an elk, especially if it was intoxicated.
Nublet would lead it home and try to get us to keep it. One of the proudest moments of her young life was going with Mommy to the rental office and excitedly babbling to the office drone about the bird she saw trapped inside a screened porch. “And, and, and we gotta WESCUE IT!”
Budding little Diego, my daughter.
}:-)4
Awwwww. Reminds me of when Sally used to give names to every insect in the house. “Look, Father! These are Bob and Sue, my kitchen buggies!”
"It's comin' right for us!"
did you see this, old friend?
BTD: You betchum!!
More sophisticated elk gather in places of civility even when drinking.
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