There was a video of an elk finally having a tyre taken off its neck after two years. However, he had to take off his antlers first.
Wildlife officials said that an elusive elk that had been walking around the mountains of Colorado for at least two years with a car tyre around its neck had been set free. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the male elk, which is four and a half years old and weighs 600 pounds, was tranquillized on Saturday evening after being seen near Pine Junction, southwest of Denver. The police couldn't cut through the steel in the tire's bead, so they had to cut off the elk's five-pointed antlers to get rid of the load. "We would have preferred to cut the tyre and leave the antlers for…