FWIW, it's rut season ....or maybe this lady hit something else and is making up the story .......but I see she was driving a Volvo, not a Falcon.
Posted on 10/30/2009 1:22:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
FWIW, it's rut season ....or maybe this lady hit something else and is making up the story .......but I see she was driving a Volvo, not a Falcon.
A buddy of mine told me this story about his encounter with a bull moose in Northern Idaho. My buddy was riding a motorcycle (way too fast, knowing him) down a narrow logging road. He came around a corner, only to find a moose standing broadside right in the middle of the road. Since he didn’t have enough room to go around the moose on either side, he said he locked the brakes and pretty much laid the cycle over to get stopped. Once he righted the motorcycle, he said he was looking up at this bull moose from about five feet. He said the moose looked at him with an unconcerned look and just ambled off the road seemingly without a care. My buddy, on the other hand, said it took him quite awhile to regain his composure. He also said from that distance and position, you couldn’t believe how big that moose looked.
Precious!
Nothing. No dent, no scrape, not a doggone thing. Now I'm questioning my own sanity until about five miles further down the road I notice my right wing mirror sort of pointed straight down. I had clipped the critter on the butt with my mirror and it had swiveled back and then snapped back into place. When I got it into the light I noticed a couple of brown hairs. I'd gotten that close to a full-growed moose at 70 mph.
Oh, I was in a Subaru. I'd have been dead. My buddy advised me to run the windshield wipers next time. Ha ha. And to buy a lottery ticket.
When will the MSM blame this on Sarah?
Anyone? Anyone?
Not if you live in Maine.
I had a big whitetail buck run out of the woods and butt the side of my car once...
but if this gal is a born 'n bred Mainer - she's a dumb one.
If you meet a moose in the road, you give it plenty of time to get off the road and into the woods - which she obviously didn't do, else it couldn't have kicked in her headlight as she went by.
Moose see a slow moving car coming towards them as a usurper encroaching upon his space. They can do a lot more damage than this one did. She is lucky.
:P:
TRUE.
I had a friend, originally from England, married to a Maine man. One night, coming home on a country road, they came upon 2 bull moose in the middle of the road. The moose not only didn't seem afraid but turned to glare at them.
He stopped the car and put out the lights. She asked him why he didn't just blast the horn and drive toward them to scare them away.
He said: "Sit very still and don't make a sound."
The moose came over and walked around and around the car, sniffing and snorting. They finally decided it was not a challenge and went off into the woods.
My friend and her husband then proceeded home - in a car covered with moose snot.
A bull moose like this is as big as a truck. Biggest problem in hitting one is that the body mass is above the hood - you hit the legs and the body comes straight through your windshield - and many drivers have died thusly...even in big rigs.
I chased after a big feller once to get photos...I followed him into the brush and the woods - snapping as I went.
Every minute or so, he'd stop and look at me over his shoulder. Then he stopped, turned around and gave me a "Are you nuts , lady, or just got a death wish" look.
I back tracked fast...asking myself, indeed, "Are you crazy?"
LOL
Obviously you don't have moose where you live - or you'd know they are a heckava lot bigger than a bull or a horse...'cept maybe a Percheron
;O)
I was thinking about drivng up to Maine someday but I didn’t know I would need a tank. These moose must make trick or treating real interesting. Talk about scaring
the heck out of kids!
I’m an Idaho native now living in eastern Kansas. We vacation every summer in my old hometown of Coeur d’Alene. In our annual camping trips, I’m amazed at how much the moose population has grown. Sighting a moose thirty years ago on either the Coeur d’Alene or St. Joe Rivers was uncommon and now it is becoming fairly common.
Watch it in High Quality so you can read the subtitles.
It's a pretty small sample size but I do think there are more of them down low than there used to be. The horses take the deer for granted but the moose seem to freak them out. Dunno why. There are more wolf sightings down here than there used to be, too. Kinda cool. The summer tourists don't believe me...
This summer tourist does. Last summer, we were camping on the Coeur d'Alene River (Berlin Flats Campground on Shoshone Creek about 10 miles upstream from Pritchard). A Forest Service employee came by and told us to keep an eye on our dog as some wolf researchers were monitoring a pack of wolves not far from when we were.
That night, when I escorted Mrs. CommerceComet to the "facilities", a wolf howled. Everyone in our camp heard it except Mrs. CommerceComet who would have wanted to immediately abandon camp had she heard it. We all agreed, the howl was not like any coyote we had every heard before. I'm not exactly sure what was different about the howl but I immediately identified it as a wolf.
Steve Gould was my Grandfather! He loved to make people laugh.
Yes, moose meat sure is yummy in my tummy!
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