Eating too many rotting apples is believed to have caused the animal to charge and bite a young girl who was playing in a backyard sandbox in the city of Kungalv, according to the Swedish news agency TT.

“I suddenly heard a loud scream. I threw myself over the hedge, grabbed Nova and ran back into the house,” said the girl’s mother, Maria Schelin.

The drunken marauder disappeared, but was later tracked down and killed by a group of hunters.

Scandinavian elk often become intoxicated after eating fermenting apples, but it usually occurs late in the fall. In 2002, a drunken bull elk was shot after it attacked an 8-year-old boy.

Another intemperate elk laid siege to a Swedish schoolhouse in November 2006.

Photo: Oliver Isermann
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