Elk Accused of Murder

Drunken Elks? Charges are pending. :l

Every and I mean every single story involving an animal attack on humans always has to include a disclaimer stating that the aggressive behavior by the animal was an aberration. Certainly that can't be the case every single time. Isn't it possible that a stingray is likely to stab you with its tail if you swim too close to it? Isn't likely that a chimpanzee will eat your face off if you cut off his Valium suddenly?

Anne Elk has a theory about that.

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 star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

They can become very aggressive when they're with an offspring. Me and my dad had to once run as hell when we stumbled accidentally too close to them.

The people responsible for this post have been sacked.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Temporary insanity plea...

Those responsible for sacking the people responsible for this post, have been sacked.

Here is my theory about the moose:
It has a mouth in the front, no mouth in the middle and an anus in the back.
This is MY theory (ahammm), and it belongs to ME!

...And now for something completely different:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/TheLarch.gif&imgrefurl=http://monty-python.ru/%3Fpage_id%3D90&usg=__DWgA6i_UadavZuDlS40Q3_aMF_I=&h=400&w=256&sz=24&hl=nl&start=10&um=1&tbnid=ASNO7bkBs7hEdM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=79&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlarch%26hl%3Dnl%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-US%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

Wouldn't
http://monty-python.ru/sketches/1st-season/the-larch
be easier?

So it's funny to laugh at somebody getting killed?

What???? Did I write that whole line with all those letters an numbers and scribbles by hand for nothing???

No Skip- I just took the 1st one that popped up...

:lol:

And no that death is not laughable.
But the way is in context of what has been done on the part of humor by -among others- Monthy Python...

This incident has now been blogged at Arbroath, where the first two comments address the possibility (curiously not raised in the thread here) that the man could have murdered his wife with an elk's horn or hoof and then sprinkled her body with some secretions from a carcass...

Agatha Christie or John Dickson Carr would have thought of that.

AHEM!

Minnesotastan

And you dont think that the police might have thought about that? That he would've left traces of himself all over the place.

And how the the hell would he have "sprinkled" saliva from a moose anyway?

It's also surprising that most of the comments here treats this case as a joke, I can understand the humour in it with the Python thing but think about the husband who had to sit in custody for five months when he wasn't guilty at all.

@Martin - I haven't thought this out in detail, but I suppose if I were planning to "elk" someone, I would shoot an elk (or procure some appropriate roadkill), store the frozen head/mouth and the antlers and hooves. Then I'd surprise my victim on a lonely hiking trail, stab them with the elk antler, slobber the (defrosted) elk mouth on them, and carry away the body parts after leaving some elk prints in the soil (and erasing my boot marks). Even better would be to attach the hooves to the bottom of my boots.

It's starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch...

(Although now that I think about it, there may have been a Sherlock Holmes epidode in which an animal claw or such was used as a murder weapon.)

Thanks for that picture from one of my favorite Monty Python skits, ever!