Just when you thought...Drunk badger disrupts traffic
By Gary Bogue
Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 6:22 am in Badger.
BERLIN — A German badger got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it had eaten from a nearby tree, it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.
A motorist called police near the central town of Goslar to report a dead badger on a road — only for officers to turn up and discover the animal alive and well, but drunk.
Officers eventually chased it from the road with a broom.
Well-equipped police cars should always carry brooms in case they run into any drunk badgers. /Gary
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July 10th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Love it!!
July 10th, 2009 at 9:14 am
“Drunk” badger? Because of over-ripe cherries? Wouldn’t this support my initial Robin bird/Pyracantha berry hypothesis? I was an avid believer in this until about three decades ago when my analysis was sort of quashed.
Unless this badger washed these cherries down with a litre of Plzeňský Prazdroj, or even the local Paulaner stuff, I am now a skeptic.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I think that badger was just stuffed to the gills and needed to lie down for a while. Haven’t you ever over-indulged in those delicious cherries when they first hit the marketplace? However, a more remote siesta zone would have been a smarter choice. Something about badgers and skunks seem to make them impervious to following the rules. They fear nothing!