Check out these pictures of this poor lady's car after she hit the unfortunate ungulate. She supposedly walked away with only a broken wrist and minor scratches despite the moose going THROUGH HER CAR.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "I brake for Moose!"
http://www.grantkphoto.com/moose_1.jpg
http://www.grantkphoto.com/moose2.jpg
http://www.grantkphoto.com/moose3.jpg
http://www.grantkphoto.com/moose4.jpg
fake ......
Holy shit. How she lived is beyond me.
NH and VT Maggots stay awake too, plenty of them up there. Even W. Mass., lately.
nah, that's what really happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punani
when you live in those states though, and you drive a car, you learn to duck below the dashboard, so the moose goes over you:)
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Originally Posted by Punani
Uhh, sure. Then so is this.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16828.jpg Way to photoshop your skis in there, big guy :smile:
prove it and I'll delete it. I checked Snopes.com first, they had nothing....
I see moose EVERY day on my commute through Logan Canyon. And all the time behind my house while skiing. I am always on the lookout for these creatures, they will tear my Corolla to shit.
Yesterday while skinning....
http://fritzrips.com/v-web/gallery/a...er04/moose.jpg
that is nuts!! im sure its real, moose are badass creatures. they have been known to kill bears..
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Originally Posted by hucksquaw
I've never heard of a moose killing a bear. Sure, moose can get a little surly if you sneak up on them, and occaisionally one might charge, but if that was the case, i'd still probably bet on a bear, even when if weighed by a good 800 or 900 pounds.. they aren't generally that confrontational, except when it comes to fighting another bull over a cow.
I've seen pickup trucks with the engine relocated to the bed area by hitting moose.
no man, if anything gets between a mother moose and her babies shell go nuts. when i was living in alaska, moose and bears venturing into housing communities werent uncommon and once a woman videotaped an incident that happened outside her house where a mother moose was slightly seperated from her babies and a bear happened to croos thier path and the moose went savage and killed it. they showed the tape on local news.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiguide
with moose is that there taller then cars and you don't even see them, they blend into the road. signs everywhere in NH, and maine. i've seen deer do the same things, where they get hit and run through the car so quickly that the only way you knew that you hit them is there fur everywhere.
NEWSFLASH!!Quote:
Originally Posted by hucksquaw
It's "No, WOman, ....";)
Why would anyone think that is fake. It looks purty normal to me. Seriously.
Edit: If ya's get to tag a bull like that in Maine, you get to keep the kill! Bonus!(or compensation for the flattened veehickel). "Fire up tha propane honey!"
A very nice guy that I used to work with was killed last spring when he hit a moose in his Audi S4 Avant. His car looked like it had been attacked by a giant can opener. Definitely not purty.
fair enough, that can certainly be true of any wildlife.Quote:
Originally Posted by hucksquaw
oooh... that sucks... sorry to hear it, but definitely not uncommon.Quote:
Originally Posted by InspectorGadget
this summer in maine, I knew someone whose father hit one.... on a motorcycle.... suffice it to say, he died instantly.
Yup, that's how a high school buddy of mine got his first moose. Totalled his pick up truck, but he ended up getting a large amount of meat out of the deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by trainnvain
Seriously, once I saw moose kill a dragon.Quote:
Originally Posted by hucksquaw
A moose killed a man outside redlodge a few years ago. the guy was found dead with his hands in his pockets, never even got a chance to react. Aparently he didnt see the moose, startled it and got an antler spike through the eye.
The main problem with cars and moose is height. A car hits a deer and the deer gets hit by the front end, most of the impact is taken by the vehicle. A car hits a moose and the car takes the moose's legs out from under it and the moose falls into the drivers lap. kind of like those pics.
I've had three near misses in the last year, two of them on the same evening.
Driving back from the soxs/yanks game on my way to a bela fleck concert I had to drive between two moose that were standing on either side of the double yellow. Couldnt stop in time, so I figured I'd just start screaming and keep driving, and hope for the best. Luckily they didnt move.
Last week driving back from burlington I came to the top of a hill on RT2 to see a giant buck running down the middle of the road. Didnt catch his eyes from my lights because he was running away from me.
Then about ten minutes later, I swerve to avoid a moose, only to have to swerve back to avoid another two moose on the other side of the road. Drove another ten minutes or so then pulled over and spent the night in the car. It's like a fucking zoo out there.
Oh yeah, almost hit a bear on Vancouver island this summer, driving to Port Renfew. Fun times.
Large animals just cant resist the wagon I guess.
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Originally Posted by CantDog
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I'll take a momma moose over a black bear any day
Thats some road kill that I'd love to eat
moose is some damn good eatin!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey
you think so? I don't, i'd rather have venison. while maybe the upside of moose meat is that it's really lean, the downside is that it doesn't have much fatty/flavor when cooking. Gotta use a lot of onions, or mix reg. hamburg in with the ground stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by hucksquaw
Another moose story: While living in Jackson, we had two big windows and a sliding glass door at the back of our condo. One day in February, I was sitting at the table by the glass doors when a moose stopped by. Now, we had been leaving stuff like carrots, etc. out there for the moose, but today we had nothing to leave them.
The moose just kind of stood at the door, looking in as if to say, "Where's the love, phUnk? Where's the love? :(" So, I slowly walked to the door, opened it about 3 inches, and tossed a few gummi bears out there.
Apparently, moose love gummi bears.
I did this a few more times until I ran out of gummi bears. I shrugged, told the moose that was it, and went back to the table. It seems that the moose was still hungry, because it started snorting against the glass door and pawing at the cement.
After about 2 minutes of that, I decided to close the shades and go hang out in the kitchen. That's the end of the story. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by hucksquaw
moose is some damn good eatin!!
grind up the moose meat and make some sloppy joes with it.. shit is BOMB!Quote:
Originally Posted by skiguide
My only moose story was while I was pike fishing in Saskatuwan. Driving across the lake we passed a moose apparently heading the same way we were. Just swimming along like it was no big deal. I've also seen this once back in Michigan on a moderate traffic lake in my home town involving a deer. Those crazy animals. What will they think of next?
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by fez
Shit, a couple of years ago near my house, a friend came to an intersection and saw "at least fifteen" deer milling around in the road. They wouldn't move out of the road, so he starts creeping through them. A big-ass buck put his head down and charged the car, you could see the dings from the antler tips on the driver's-side door.
buck == male deer or rabbit i believe
bull == male moose or elk
heh, I thought you were calling bs on his story. And wasn't he talking about a deer at that point? Shit I don't remember and it sure doesn't matter.
Heh, the first animal was a deer, then the next three were moose. Not sure if they were bulls or not, I was too busy screaming like a little girl and wetting myself.
Saw another one yesterday morning driving up to Rangeley, those fuckers are all over the place.