Road kill reported by a driver in the German state of Lower Saxony turned out to be a drunk badger taking a nap, police in Goslar reported on Wednesday morning.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\nLate on Monday night, a driver reported what he thought was a dead animal on county road 32 near Groß Döhren to police.<\/p>\n
But when officers arrived on the scene to remove the traffic obstruction, they were stunned to find that the animal was not dead or injured.<\/p>\n
“Right in the middle of the street there was a badger sitting and staring at the officers incredulously,” a police statement said.<\/p>\n
The officers quickly discovered that the animal – which was not frightened by their presence – had been snacking on the overripe cherries on a nearby tree.<\/p>\n
“The animal’s belly digested the fruit to alcohol and the badger was, as the saying goes, ‘drunk as a blackbird’,” the statement said, adding that the little mammal was also suffering from “diarrhoea containing cherry pits.”<\/p>\n
Officers directed the badger off of the road, where he could “sleep off his intoxication in a meadow.”<\/p>\n
–The Local, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWell of course they let it go on its way. Who wants to arrest a badger for public drunkenness? You’d get your hands chewed off.<\/p>\n
Good thing it was the happy peaceful kind of drunk and not the loud belligerent kind. Just imagine walking home from a night out at the bars and suddenly encountering a drunken pissed off badger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Via SLOG. Poor little guy just couldn’t wait for Oktoberfest… Drunk badger blocks traffic Road kill reported by a driver in the German state of Lower Saxony turned out to be a drunk badger taking a nap, police in Goslar reported on Wednesday morning. Late on Monday night, a driver reported what he thought was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}