Report: Elk Has Bar Stool Stuck On Head

TheDenverChannel ^ | February 15, 2009 | staff reporter

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DENVER -- While no one is exactly sure how it happened, officials near Eagle say there is a cow elk wandering around with a bar stool stuck on its head.

The elk was first seen on a conservation easement property south of the Eagle Ice Rink, reported the Vail Daily.

Resident Bill Johnson told the newspaper that he saw the elk with the metal bar stool stuck on her head from his house. The legs were pointed up and the elk's head was pushed through the metal rig that holds the legs together, he said.

Johnson said the stool didn’t seem to prevent the elk from grazing or moving around.

“Apparently she is fully mobile,” Colorado Division of Wildlife officer Craig Wescoatt told the Daily. Wescoatt said he has been receiving reports about the animal for several days.

Efforts to get near the animal have not been successful. When approached, the elk scampers away.

“She’s very active. The bar stool doesn’t seem to be impairing her to any great degree,” he observed. “She just looks kind of goofy.”

Wescoatt said he has not had any reported sightings of the animal in recent days, although several callers have suggested that perhaps the elk picked up the stool during a visit to a local saloon.

[Daffynition]

Not the elk in the story ... but apparently this is common...

[Brad's Gramma]

I do NOT know why I think of youse when I read this stuff...

[JennysCool]

Probably got it at the Elks Club.

[NonValueAdded]

I bear it happens to Moose and Shriners, too.

[NonValueAdded]

hear ... what a stupid idiot, I blow a great one-liner. Well, it’s pretty hard to type with a barstool stuck to my head.

[VicVega]

Did he steal it from the club or do you think it is BYOBS rules?

[arealconservativeforachange]

Speaking of bar stools.....

How do you get 4 log cabin republicans to sit on the same stool?

Turn it upside down.

[Trteamer]

Give me a permit and a 30.06 and I’ll get that bar stool back. I could use it by my BBQ.

[dfwgator]

I have no idea what you’re talking about so....

[JoeProBono]

[bobby.223]

not much as bar stools go but I am usually tipped over anyway.

[VRWC For Truth]

Just the Elk Of Tomorrow (EOT).

[Terriergal]

hey that’s a red stag not an elk!

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[JoeProBono]

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[valkyry1]

Were you involved in this in any way ;)

[NavyCanDo]

Pinging myself for later reading

[Daffynition]

Would you say that if you knew I was a Bride of Christ?

[Terriergal]

ah, never mind the face seems wrong for a red deer. I guess it probably is an elk... but the lemurs (or whatever they are) are photoshopped.

[Terriergal]

er um... stag party?

[valkyry1]

Actually those are the N. American Elk Antler Lemurs, very rare to catch them like that.

[Daffynition]

Yep.

[tubebender]

I do NOT know why I think of youse when I read this stuff...

Because you have run off all your Friends and Family?

[Grammy]

Wildlife ping.... thread hijacking in progress.

[Brad's Gramma]

LOL!!!!!!!

No.

NO!

(I don’t THINK so, at least...)

Oh man.

[ValerieTexas]

All the buck elks have been complimenting her great new rack.

[Brad's Gramma]

Ba da ba da BOOM!

:)

[TigersEye]

...officials near Eagle say there is a cow elk wandering around with a bar stool stuck on its head

The legs were pointed up and the elk's head was pushed through the metal rig that holds the legs together,...

Antler envy?

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

“She’s very active. The bar stool doesn’t seem to be impairing her to any great degree,” he observed. “She just looks kind of goofy.”

Well, heck. Who hasn’t done this in their youth? LOL!

[JRios1968]

PGA golfer Steve Elkington could not be reached for comment...

[MinuteGal]

That has to be one low bar.

Leni

[6323cd]

bookmark

[Daffynition]

Dunno ...30" is about average. ;-D

[jazusamo]

Those darn Coloradans are going to have to call off the daily cocktail hour!

[TigersEye]

That is an amazing specimen!

[Daffynition]

Looks as if she just had her clothesline walk off. That's a great image!!!!

[Joe 6-pack]

Here's an Elke with a nice rack...

[Daffynition]

Isn't it!?!

Maybe a month ago, I posted the story [linked here] about the spider bull record. I can't find the FR article just now.

[Daffynition]

All the girls like him.

[TigersEye]

He has enough antler to make a whole set of bar stools. lol

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[jazusamo]

Hah! Never thought of their racks as a clothesline, good one.

Here's another from the same neighborhood as above.

[Daffynition]

Wow! Thanks! Great photo! Seems it wouldn't be safe to let little ones out until they go away.

Yep. There goes the neighborhood.

[x]

Not the elk in the story ... but apparently this is common...

Especially with the economic downturn.

Before Madoff the elk had much better chairs on their antlers.

[RichInOC]

“Is she gone? Is the Governor gone? Good. Help me get this thing off, okay?”

[x]

Ah, the cycle of life!

Elk finds chair.

Elk loves chair.

Elk loses chair.

Elk ends up as a chair.

[RichInOC]

Wouldn’t you?

[Doomonyou]

Because he can.