How cruel and senseless.....what is wrong with people.
How hideous.
This guy gets as much time as the child rapist in VT.!
Good. Let's hope his cellmate is known as "Moose";)
2 months for an attack on a moose. Same length of time that child molester got in Vermont.
Does "Bullwinkle' know about this? He's gonna be pi**ed.
Rocky, too, I'll bet.
So if it was moose season and he had a license then nothing would have happened to him? Or if he had a license then he would only have been charged with "harassing wildlife with a snowmobile"?
He might as well gone ahead and raped the moose while he was at it.
What a guy! He can break a moose's legs with a snowmobile!
Boy, I'd sure like to meet someone like that. What a hero!
I have absolutely no problem with hunting moose, although I can't afford a moose-hunting trip. This crap, on the other hand, is deserving of a trip behind the woodshed.
I'm not sure this will stop him. And I'm not sure I'd call his methods "hunting".
Guys like this dope give other snowmobilers a bad name...
That whole cheese-eating moose thing is an FR myth; for the straight skinny I found this in a Google search:
The disturbed rustling of leaves and the sharp snapping of twigs herald the approach of a formidable creature. Finally, through the vegetation an endless lanky leg protrudes, slowly followed by another. Towering above, the massive head of the great beast casually surveys the surrounding land. Its disproportionately elongated snout is raised, and the huge nostrils flare as the air is checked for the scent of unseen danger. Standing six feet (two metres) high at the shoulder and weighing over one thousand pounds Four hundred and fifty kilograms), this giant commands respect. Its long neck stretches, and with a quiet snap it rips the tender tips off nearby shrubs.
The Algonkian Indians had an appropriate name for this magnificent animal. Their word "mons" or "moz" (depending on the dialect)—has been adopted into the English language as "moose." Although the word we currently use offers scant information about the animal, "twig eater"—a loose translation of the Algonkian term—provides an apt description of its diet...
Although moose lack teeth in the front of the upper jaw, they have little trouble dealing with the woody plant material that constitutes much of their diet. They feed on fresh leaves by browsing and may even pull a shoot sideways through their mouth, frequently stripping off up to two feet (one-half metre) of vegetation with the aid of the tough, thick tongue and lips. They also browse the tips of twigs, particularly the most recent growth. Regardless of how it is attained, the plant material is thoroughly crushed between twelve sets of broad, flattened teeth at the rear of the mouth, six pairs of molars and six pairs of premolars...Although many different plants are eaten by moose, the type consumed depends on the availability, both geographically and seasonally. In general, preferred trees and shrubs include willows (Salix), trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides), redosier dogwood (Comus stolonifera), red maple (Acer rubrum), striped maple (Acer pennsylvanicum), white birch (Betula papyrifera), beaked hazelnut (Corylus rostrata), pin cherry (Prunus pennsylvanica) and, primarily in winter, balsam fir (Abies balsamea). Aquatic plants, particularly water shield (Brasenia schreberi), yellow pond lily (Nuphar sp.) and pondweed (Potamogeton sp.),constitute a preferred and important part of the moose's diet in summer.
Of course, this incident happened in winter and the meese might get desperate...
Maybe Tucker "I'm really a liberal" Carlson was right about them folks to the North.
Anyway, outside of accidentally hitting one with a car you’d have hell trying to run over a deer or antelope with a snowmobile or motorcycle.
Can’t really imagine a dopey moose just standing there while you run into it.
Also remember seeing a Catalina that hit a horse once. Darn nearly killed the two people in the car because when it was hit it ended up on the hood and took the windshield out and almost tore the top off the car.
I’m thinking a snowmobile isn’t nearly as big as a Catalina and a moose is about the size of a horse. Don’t really see how you hit it without a moose coming over the handlebars and taking you out.
I suspect adult beverages were involved.
As others have pointed out, this is a remarkably dangerous thing to do. The guy was trying for a Darwin Award.
Anyone that would ram a moose with a snowmobile has to be called into question mentally.
Yep but a Judge in VT just gave a guy who raped a child for 4 years 6o days in jail in the grand ole USA>
He was also banned from returning to his summer job of clubbing baby seals.
If he could own a gun in Canada, he couda just shot it, Eh?