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UPDATED: Train wipes out 23 elk east of Helena; warden says 'there's not much left'
Montana Standard ^
| Dec 31, 2015
| Tom Kuglin
Posted on 01/02/2016 3:16:59 PM PST by This_far
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To: This_far
If one of them tastes a bit “off”, it’s probably an Odd Fellow, not an Elk.
To: exit82
I’m thinking that there was a elk’s club meeting going on there and they thought the train was bringing the entertainment.
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:21:30 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: This_far
‘Pretty much when a 60-mile-per-hour train hits an elk, they explode on impact and thereâs not much left,’ he said. ‘Itâs pretty devastating.’
There goes my idea for using trains as meat tenderizers!
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:23:13 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Sad, especially since the meat was lost. Not much information. I wonder if this was one of the Alaska time collisions where the ungulates, moose up there, walk on the tracks since the snow is cleared, and can't scale the high snowbanks when a train comes. Haven't a clue how much snow is there, global warming and all. Otherwise, I can't imagine hitting 23 elk or anything if an escape path was available.
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:25:53 PM PST
by
SJackson
(What I’m watching in him (O), is uncertainty...a leader doesn’t give sh*t...he gets it don)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Good one, Jack!
They must have thought the Canadian lady elks were coming on the Helena Express.
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:26:17 PM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Jack Hydrazine
They said that, but the photo showed five, pretty much intact, elk bodies.
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:26:56 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: RegulatorCountry
Watch out for Moose!
They'll get you coming
And going!
To: Karl Spooner
Just like in Yellowstone, they ignore people for the most part... and ‘peoples’ things
warm pipelines they like though
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:28:06 PM PST
by
This_far
To: BwanaNdege
To: This_far
They obviously need to put up better signs to warn the elk.
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:30:38 PM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
To: RegulatorCountry
To: This_far
To: This_far
To: Karl Spooner
DON’T MOCK the MOOSE
you might get cheesed
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:37:27 PM PST
by
This_far
To: This_far
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:37:39 PM PST
by
skeptoid
To: kaehurowing
I’s search for a train network but that the government would use it against me or I’d spend too much time there...
Gotta keep this in context, one of the great things about MT is the number of abandoned RR that are available.
(even back in my hometown in MASS there are RR converted to trails...)
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:43:07 PM PST
by
This_far
To: This_far
Free Elk Steak for everybody!
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:49:56 PM PST
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: AmericanVictory
To: RegulatorCountry
Drove from Missouri thru the state of Kansas several times and the highway is littered with dead mulies hit by semi’s and other vehicles........such is life.
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posted on
01/02/2016 4:56:37 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
To: American Constitutionalist
As? I love me some venison any day of the week but deer is to elk meat as ground chuck is to tri tip...
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posted on
01/02/2016 5:09:48 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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