Drunken Moose - Weird News

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msnbc.com
1 hour 27 minutes ago 2011-09-07
An inebriated moose trying to get more fermenting apples apparently lost its balance and ended up stuck in an apple tree in Sweden, The Local website reported.

After returning home from work Tuesday evening, Per Johansson of Saro heard bellowing from his neighbor’s yard.

“I thought at first that someone was having a laugh. Then I went over to take a look and spotted a moose stuck in an apple tree with only one leg left on the ground," Johansson said.

Johansson called the police, but while waiting for a response, he and neighbors began to saw off limbs to try to help the entangled, thrashing moose.

Responding firefighters managed to bend the tree down far enough for the animal to slide off the branches.

To see a photo of the moose in the tree, see below.

Drunken moose are common in Sweden in autumn, when apples are abundant on the ground and in trees in homeowners’ yards.

Johansson surmised the moose had been indulging for quite a while.

“My neighbor recognized it as the animal that almost ran into her car earlier in the day,” Johansson said. “She was pretty sure the moose was already under the influence."

The freed animal lay on the ground seemingly unconscious, before finally staggering to its hooves and eventually wandering off.

“We often see moose stuffing their faces with apples around here,” Johansson said. “But this is the first time we found one perched in a tree.”