Wild Drunks

[Subdeacon Joe]

Found on FB

 

‪Police in Milton, West Virginia responded to complaints this week of two raccoons that appeared to be rabid. The investigation showed the little fella pictured here and his pal were drunk on fermented crabapples. They were taken in, sobered up and released into the woods. ‬*Photo credit to Milton PD

 

[Alpo]

There's a bush. It comes from South America. The official name is Brazilian pepper, but they grow around here and they're called the Florida Holly.

 

 

Long about February them berries turn red, and as they ripen on the bush they start to ferment.

 

Birds - especially robins - eat these fermented berries and get drunk out their little feathered butts. And they attempt to fly in the house. When they're sober they can tell that's the window but when they're drunk it looks like a hole, I guess. You'll be sitting here and all the sudden you hear something go THUNK, and you go look and there's a stunned bird lying on the ground where he flew into the window at top speed.

[Pat Riot]

Here’s one of African animals getting drunk on Marula Fruit. I remember seeing this video around 10 years ago. 
 

 

[Tennessee Trapper Tom]

I have 3 Apples trees and a pear tree. It’s that time of year when the ground becomes littered with the rotting friuts. I have game camera up on the field. I have been getting pictures of deer, coon, and possum coming in at night to eat the fermented fruit. I guess everybody has to party sometime.

 

I also have a very big snapping turtle that daily comes out of the lake, waddles over, grabs a pear and returns to the lake..

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Some smaller orchards here have found that the way to a profit was to have pick your own sales.  The law is that the pickers cannot pick up drops. Drops are for the wildlife.

 

 

 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Saw a female black bear trying to climb a fallen tree.  She was determined to get to the top, but finally wandered off looking amazingly like some human drunk.

[Subdeacon Joe]