Them Toxic Swedes

[etat]

Read today in the news that a pesky moose from Vuoggatjalme, Northern Sweden ripped off a couples bicycle.

Seem's ole 'Droopy Ear' had been snackin on their roses off an on since 1995.

They found out that parking a bicycle in front a them roses didn't slow that moose down none at all!!!!1
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It didn't help.

The moose, dubbed "Droopy Ear" because of her deformed ears, slid her head through the bike's frame and munched on the roses last week, sating her appetite with a flowery feast.

"Then she disappeared, with the bike hanging around her neck," Helamb said.


He found the bike later, about 1,640 feet from the house, bent apart and beyond repair.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=7&u=/ap/20040524/ap_on_fe_st/sweden_thieving_moose

[etat]

Which brings me to the question!

If ya lived in Sweden, and got a hankering for some good ole fresh moose meat, how would  you go about getting the best of it so's you could butcher it up if you didn't have a gun to shoot it?

[Swede]

ADfields; Yo make verry joke on me?  

There is an other point about the alcohol. We can just buy it on "Systembolaget" and being >20 Y.O. The high alco tax is also a kind of regulation.
If you goes out to the street with a knife in your pocket the police can take it from you. Walking at the street a saturday night with a chain saw I think they at least would tell some questions.

When I was a kid people talked about them poor people in USSSR not may think and say what they wanted and that their friens and neigbors told the police about it IF they did. When they get "perestrojka" and freedom "common people" get more or less criminal.
In Irak we  can see that the people there have problems what to do with their sudden freedom.

Freedom to be armed, freedom to drink and every kind of freedom i think must be inherit by the culture to be well handeled.  

Grandpa; Shooting them slow turtles can´t be a sport so I guess You are hunting for food.  That´s OK and what armed people in the Swedish coutryside do too.   Good luck!

SwampDonkey; Thanks! Can I hang my shirt for drying on Your antlers?  

Swede.

[SwampDonkey]

Swede:

errrmm  :-/

I don't need your smelly, sweaty shirt hung on my rack, nope.  

As the old saying goes, 'mess with the bull, and your liable to get his horns'

[Swede]

Grandpa;
Do I have to explane EVERY details? What do You think about sitting there waiting for a slow poor turtle to shoot?

I just take my old bike out, early in the morning before sun rise. Park it in front of the roses, take a knife, sit up and wait...........

Some years ago there was 3 mooses on the field beside my workshop. I hided behind a continer and started to soud like an old moose male. A female moose stoped eating and listened. She came closer and closer. After a while there was just a continer between us and I had to tell her I wasn´t intrested in closer acquaintance. She turned around and ran into the forest in a hurry.

Swede.

[etat]

 

Swede, it ain't the whole turtle ya get to shoot at!   It's just the tippy point of their little head stickin up!  I have eat turtle but these are just little innocent mud turtles, really don't think they'd be good eating., If you don't clean em out now and again they'll practically take over yer pond and eat to many of the little fishes  and the fish food that yer catfish need to feed on.  

Hadn't ever been moose hunting, did help kill and eat a DANGEROUS wild buffalo one time, but if I ever do go moose hunting I'll be sure and take a bicycle and a dozen roses for bait!!!!!

[Stan]

One time that Swede is gonna find out just how angry a spurned female moose can get.

[Swede]

Stan; There is 1 (one) thing I´m tinkinng about walking in the woods in summer. The female moose use to "park" her kid while she is going for eating. If you walk between the parked kid and the eating moose you need a good tree to climb!
It can be more dangerous than walking the woods in fall when the male mooses looks after their intrests.

Some älg hunters can be dangerous too, they don´t stop hunting even if they need to be carryed to their place. Just totally blindness can stop a genuine hunter. So.............

A farmer was plowing his field i the fall. He heard a shot from the forest beside and the horse fell down dead. Then heard a wispering from the forest: Shall we shoot the kid to or save it for next year?

Swede.

[etat]

Swede, what other wild animals do ya ll have there.  Around here there's coons, possums, skunks, squirrel, deer, fox, rabbits coyote, armadillo, snakes, beaver, and fire ants.  I'm sure I'm leaving out or forgetting quite a few.

[Swede]

Grandpa; Yes, I´ve heard about them BIG ants and your half-past-2-in-the-night-shootgun-ant hunting. We always have to listen to how much bigger evrything is in Amerika. We also have ants but not that big and wild.
In south of Sweden we also have fox, rabbit, roe deer, hare, badger, squirrel, weasel, mink, rats, lynx and some wild boar. In the north there are also bear, wolverine and wolf. The reindeers isn´t realy wild animals, they are the laplanders. (Never ask a lapp how many reindeers he owns!)

Swede.

[Swede]

SwampDonkey; Who needs the bulls horns? I can´t prove  them useful.

Swede.

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Swede, catching the 'bull by the horns' means you about done 'bit off more than you can chew'!

[SwampDonkey]

 

[Stan]

Fire ants here are classified as vermin, which means you are not restricted in the weaponry you use to attack them.