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Motorist: 500-pound moose 'fell out of the sky'
Philly ^
| Tue, May. 12, 2009
Posted on 05/13/2009 12:09:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police said a 500-pound moose fell 18 feet to its death when it apparently leaped a guardrail on an Interstate 95 overpass and landed on Hinckley Road. Officials learned of the incident when a motorist called the town office shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday and told assistant town clerk Shirley Bailey that "a moose just fell out of the sky."
Bailey said the driver, who was under the bridge when he spotted the falling moose, was "pretty excited about it."
Police Chief Charles Runnels said the yearling bull probably panicked because of the noise and traffic along I-95 and began running. He said it just picked the wrong spot to jump the guardrail, falling onto a road instead of landing in a field.
A passerby with a wrecker hauled away the carcass.
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: sisterbiting
To: nickcarraway
“Hey Rocky...” All jokes aside, I do feel sorry for the moose.
To: nickcarraway
Can 500 pounds of cheese be far behind?
To: beaversmom
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:13:28 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:14:22 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Pistolshot
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:14:28 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: nickcarraway
I smell a conspiracy
8
posted on
05/13/2009 12:15:12 PM PDT
by
Obamageddon
("This will all end with show trials and piano wire")
To: b4its2late
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:16:09 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: nickcarraway
To: freedumb2003
I did search, but couldn’t find that one.
To: nickcarraway
That’s what he gets for biting my sister.
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:17:09 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
To: nickcarraway
“500” “Moose” didn’t find anything?
Wow, I got 2 hits... (another dup)
Oh well, search ain’t perfect. As long as you tried.
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:19:19 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: nickcarraway
“Officials learned of the incident when a motorist called
the town office shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday and told
assistant town clerk Shirley Bailey that “a moose just fell out of the sky.”
My first thought would be “Check car aimer for drugs or alcohol”.
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:23:45 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: Free Vulcan
Mynd you, Moose bytes can be very nasty.
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posted on
05/13/2009 12:49:54 PM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Nobody ever said Moose are smart.
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posted on
05/13/2009 6:20:45 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: Free Vulcan
This is series, I need to take a shower.
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posted on
05/13/2009 6:35:38 PM PDT
by
blf1776
(Peepole, Peepole who need Peepole, are the luckiest Peepole in the world)
To: TASMANIANRED
This is so true...they just cross the street when and where they feel like it. Cars zooming by seem to have no effect on their senses...they just walk out into traffic.
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posted on
05/13/2009 6:57:09 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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