Two elk shot dead after chaos in Swedish town
Published: 2 Jul 12 10:43 CET | Print version
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Two elk that were causing havoc in a busy residential area in southern Sweden were shot dead by hunters in an effort to protect civilians in the area.
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“They ran out into the middle of the road, but got scared of the cars and turned back into the park,” elk-witness Naib Woldemariam told the local Sydsvenskan newspaper.
People gathered to try and help the panicked animals, warning nearby traffic to slow down in the area; however police were forced to call in professional hunters to deal with the problem.
“They get stressed and confused with all the cars and were too wound up to be tranquilized,” said hunter Lars Celander to the paper.
“We found the first and then heard over the radio about where the other one was. It’s a danger to the public, that’s why it came to this.”
The hunters found the elk in an exhausted state, killed them, and removed the bodies themselves.
Meanwhile, Marie Keismar of the Skåne police explained that the hunters were forced to make the decision as police efforts to drive the elk out of the town can often lead to the animals dying of stress.
She added that tranquilizing the elk was “not on option” as it requires the permission of the Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket).
“It’s sad that we had to kill them, but they were on train tracks and on roads. They got easily stressed,” she told the paper.
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So not to break any idiotic regulation it's better to simply end the animal's life?!
P.S. @ #1, an angry elk can be very dangerous for a tiny little human.
"They get stressed and confused with all the cars and were too wound up to be tranquilized," said hunter Lars Celander to the paper."
"She added that tranquilizing the elk was "not on option" as it requires the permission of the Swedish Board of Agriculture"
Two more will be shot soon near flaconberg. What did the moose do? they have been tearing apart peoples summer home gardens on a routine basis. Two young moose that are not scared off by people in close proximity yelling at them. they just continue eating their lunch. Once enough complaints are received they will be put down.
In America elks are called moose for some strange reason. Get the perspective!
The reason for the misnomer is that when the Scandinavian folks emigrated to the US, they saw the elk and thought that it must be a moose. Therefore, they named it "älg,'then the word later corrupted to elk. So, that is why an "älg' is a moose in English, and an elk is an elk.