> -----Original Message-----
> From: Met History
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 9:31 AM
> 
> 
> The youngster was badly 
> shaken but escaped serious injury, suffering only a bruised 
> neck.  Elks, common in sparsely populated Sweden, are 
> normally shy but can become aggressive when they eat rotten 
> apples, a favorite winter snack that can make them drunk.   
> [USER WARNING:  There is no preservation content in this posting.] 

Two points:

Number one: please note that the warning should be placed at the
beginning so that we can make an informed decision whether to proceed
with non-preservation content.

Number two: if I am not mistaken, the boy was preserved, ergo, your
warning is unnecessary in this post.

Number three: please do keep researching from about January 1 through
about, oh say, February 6 or so. Just to see if the reporter was any
good with a follow-up on the child's subsequent death from contusion and
aneurism.

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