Posted on 11/24/2020 11:07:49 AM PST by Red Badger
Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Officials in a Canadian town are posting signs with a very important instruction for local drivers: "Do not let moose lick your car."
The signs, posted in Jasper, Alberta, ask drivers to keep their vehicles a safe distance from moose to make sure the animals don't get a taste of the road salt that inevitably ends up covering the sides of cars driving through the alpine town.
"They're obsessed with salt, it's one of the things they need for the minerals in their body," Jasper National Park spokesman Steve Young told CNN. "They usually get it from salt lakes in the park, but now they realized they can also get road salt that splashes onto cars."
Young said letting moose discover that they can get salt from licking vehicles causes the animals to lose their fear of cars, which can lead to dangerous incidents on the road.
"Moose and cars are not a good mix. If you hit the moose with your car, you take the legs out from under it and it's going through your windshield," Young said.
He said people should keep their cars, and themselves, a safe distance away from moose. He said the population of moose has been rising in the area.
"We've been seeing a lot more moose lately. The wolf population is decreasing, which means there's fewer predators and the moose population is going up as a result," Young said. "This also means people need to be respectful and give them space."
I saw that segment yesterday. My question is, “how do you stop a moose from licking your car, or basically, doing whatever it pops into his brain to do?”
And you lived to tell the tale ... twice!
Love it!
But Hot sauce might get a unhappy, wild MAD MOOSE on the car! laf.
"a lot more moose lately"
I hit a big buck deer on the Interstate in the CRX I used at the time. It came running across quickly, I swerved to try to go behind it, but it tried to stop. I squarely tagged it in the right hindquarters. The CRX is so low, the deer basically got scooped up and went flipping over the top of the car, leaving mud splatters on the roof. The head hit the headliner (poetic justice?) and an antler came through the windshield just under the headliner, left of the mirror, and broke off. I still have the souvenir, somewhere... Hood and windshield were smashed all to heck, major dent in headliner.
I can well imagine a moose would be MUCH worse. Heck, a really big bull would weigh 2/3 the weight of the CRX!
Moose ping
What did you hit him for? Was he snoring?
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You don't. You just go ahead and let him finish.
~ Cousin Eddie
I’d send it a strongly-worded letter.
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