Elk Accused of Murder

By Minnesotastan in Everything Else on Nov 28, 2009 at 12:43 pm

Anne ElkAn elk has been identified as the perpetrator of a murder in Sweden.

In 2008 the body of a Swedish woman was found by a lake; she had been taking her dog for a walk, and failed to return.  Her husband was arrested and briefly held in custody.

Now the case has been dropped after forensic analysis found elk hair and saliva on his wife’s clothes… The European elk, or moose, is usually considered to be shy and will normally run away from humans. But Swedish Radio International says the animals can become aggressive after eating fermented fallen apples in gardens.

The relevance of the photo will be compehensible only to fans of Monty Python.

BBC link.  Photo credit.


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  1. pwscott
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Drunken Elks? Charges are pending. :l

  2. Mr Joe
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    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?

  3. Skipweasel
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    Anne Elk has a theory about that.

  4. Dave H
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    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”…

  5. CreamKreator
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    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.

  6. earbox
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    The people responsible for this post have been sacked.

  7. Dave H
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…

  8. Christophe
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Temporary insanity plea…

  9. Johnny Cat
    Nov 28th, 2009 at 11:59 pm

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

  10. Leela
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 4:52 am

    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!

  13. ted
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 10:30 am

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

  14. Foreigner1
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    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…

  15. Minnesotastan
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    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.

  16. Tony LaRocca
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    AHEM!

  17. Martin
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    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.

  18. Minnesotastan
    Nov 29th, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    @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.)

  19. Gail Pink
    Nov 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pm

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


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