Drunken birds have a smashing time

Thousands of drunks are smashing into windows at a Swedish university, but it isn’t students blowing off steam.

Instead, birds feasting on fermented berries are getting drunk and playing chicken with the glass.

Thousands of waxwings began gathering in the trees outside Karlstad University late last week to feast on ripening rowan berries.

The birds haven’t learned to say when.

"So far some 50 drunk birds have lost their lives when crashing into the university’s big windows,” University spokesman Hans Jensen said.

“But the worst is over, the berries are beginning to run out.”

None of the windows at the university 140 miles from Stockholm have been broken.

It’s not the first time that birds and beasts have become inebriated in the Scandinavian country of 8.9 million people.

In December, police in Karlskoga had to kill an intoxicated big-horned elk after it charged an eight-year-old boy.

The elk got drunk by munching on fallen alcohol-filled apples that fermented on the ground.