Popping a cherry has a whole new meaning...

[Garnet]

Drunk badger blocks road | The Daily Telegraph (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25753963-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss)

GERMAN police called to clear a road of a dead badger found the animal in question had in fact gorged itself on over-ripe, fermented cherries and, blind drunk, staggered out into the middle of the road.

"The animal's stomach had turned the fruit to alcohol and the badger was, to put it crudely, drunk as a skunk,'' said police.

"In addition, the badger was suffering from diarrhoea studded with cherry stones.''

[Ensign Steve]

Let me guess, it was in Luxembourg. :shakeboar:

[godfry n. glad]

No, Germany....but close.

I've been popping cherries all week...and raspberries, and apricots, and blackcaps, and boysenberries, and blueberries.

Not once have I felt the desire to lay down and snooze on a roadway.

[MonCapitan2002]

I find this story so amusing.

[Garnet]

I feel sorry for the badger but my inner 7-year-old could not help but laugh hysterically at the mental image of a drunken badger firing cherry pits out of its ass.

[Adam]

Let me guess, it was in Luxembourg. :shakeboar:

Silly ES. There aren't enough cherries in Luxembourg to get a whole badger drunk. A weasel, maybe, but only if it was a serious lightweight.

[Watser?]

I feel sorry for the badger but my inner 7-year-old could not help but laugh hysterically at the mental image of a drunken badger firing cherry pits out of its ass.

According to this Reuters article (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5683O720090709) it wasn't dead, just dead drunk: 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.

Police discovered the nocturnal beast had eaten cherries from a nearby tree which had turned to alcohol and given the badger diarrhoea.

Having failed to scare the animal away, officers eventually chased it from the road with a broom.

ETA: I just read the original article, it says that too...

[godfry n. glad]

It prolly figured that if it was going to shoot pits, then it should get even with the crappy cars on the nasty road.