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Drunken elks attack old people's  home
Friday November 11, 2005
The Guardian
A drunken  party of elks surrounded an old people's
home in Sweden and had to be  driven away by armed
police, Sweden's media reported  yesterday.
The elks attacked the home in the town of  ?stra
G?inge, near Malm?, after devouring large numbers  of
fermented apples, the paper Dagens Nyheter said.
Police  with dogs had failed to scare them off, and the
animals only ran away  after hunters with guns arrived
on the scene.

"It's not  unusual for elks to get drunk," forester
Fredrik J?nsson told the  newspaper. "They don't
recognise the difference between fermented and  not
fermented and stuff themselves down to the last
apple." Mr  J?nsson did not know how many apples the
elks had  eaten.

There have been previous problems with elks: a  female
elk recently attacked three joggers in Norway.  Last
year another elk in Sweden stole a bicycle from a
garden,  which it regularly visited to eat the roses.
An elderly couple had used  the bike to fence off their
garden; the elk disappeared with the bike  hanging
round its neck. The bike was later found bent  and
damaged beyond repair.

Once widespread across Europe,  elks now live in
Canada, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Poland and the  Czech
Republic. Earlier this week, however, an elk was
spotted  for the first time in recent memory in
Bavaria, after apparently  wandering across the
Czech-German border.

The 7ft high  giant elk died out during the last ice
age.

Skylander