From NPR via Liberal Conspiracy’s sidebar:

A seemingly intoxicated moose has been discovered entangled in an apple tree by a stunned Swede.

Per Johansson says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbor’s garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look. There, he found a female moose kicking about in the tree. The animal was likely drunk from eating fermented apples.

Read it all.

Ian R ThorpeSeptember 9, 2011 at 15:47

Alas it is not a new story. Some years ago a similarly drunken Swedish elk
was accused of causing the death of a woman. Animal lovers will be please to
know Sweden’s politically correct Thought Police did not prosecute the elk
because Elk’s rights stipulate that animal had to be able to understand the
charges against it and the poor beast had addled its brain with alcohol and
could not understand a word of Swedish.

In Boggart Blog over the years I have reported squiffy squirrels, bladdered
badgers, groggy goats, sozzled starlings and many other drunken animals.

Elena ‘andcart
September 10, 2011 at 10:01

Oh, Good. So it must be alright to get drunk then.

Don’t know about wasps, but mine seem to be behaving themselves at the
moment. Although I did find three young Queens flying around my passage
light early the other morning. I hastily turned of the light. Much as I
support, “Wasps Have Yuman Rites Too”, I don’t particularly want them
nesting in my passage.

GildasTheMonk
September 10, 2011 at 12:25

Quite how much double entendre can you get…..?

GildasTheMonk
September 9, 2011 at 12:33

Am I right in thinking that at certain times of the year wasps get drunk on
fallen and rotting and therefore fermenting apples? Somehow it would be
fitting for their laddish image – “stuff Ibiza boys, let’s get down the
orchard and get off our faces”. Or whatever wasps have

Elena ‘andcart
September 9, 2011 at 09:43

I didn’t know you could get drunk on windfalls. This is worth looking
into.
I have been feeding them to the dog, but then he always has been a
bit vague.

I once had a Grey Hound who ate a Cannabis Plant, although I hasten to add
that I didn’t know what it was until he ate it. I had to remove the remains to
stop him getting at again. A stoned Grey Hound can be quite difficult to deal
with.

backwoodsman
September 9, 2011 at 12:24

Can believe it. Had a friend staying in the spare bedroom who used to
delight in getting the Jack Russell stoned out of his tree !

DennisSeptember 9, 2011 at 14:05

I always thought it was an act: what with the silly hat and all, but
that explains things.

GildasTheMonk
September 9, 2011 at 08:10

Hello, I see my latest fancy dress costume was rather convincing. What I
won’t tell you was who was the back legs…

Thaddeus J.
WilsonSeptember 8, 2011 at 23:12

Is there something about the saintly Gildas that we need to know, Matt?

EngineerSeptember 8, 2011 at 22:09

Round our way, it’s the starlings tend to do that. Three doors down have an
old, and large, pear tree in the back garden. The aforementioned birdlife
foregathers, partakes, becomes somewhat noisier and some fall out of tree.
Happens every year.

JuliaMSeptember
10, 2011 at 11:53

African elephants do the same thing. Rarely end up in trees, though.
Luckily…

Joe PublicSeptember 8, 2011 at 21:51

“Drunk as a Monk in a Cider Store”

Gildas will be pleased.

SadButMadLad
September 8, 2011 at 22:30

When I saw the title on my feed I thought Gildas was writing some cider
appreciation article comparing the pleasures of drinking apple cider with
pear cider which involved the drinking of all the different brands in one
go.

View from the
SolentSeptember 8, 2011 at 21:49

If it was Sweden it was an elk. She was just making sure of her
5-a-day.