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Video shows split second moose charges at person standing too close
NBC via msn ^ | 08 Aug 2021 | Doha Madani

Posted on 08/08/2021 7:55:04 PM PDT by blueplum

Video of a moose rushing a bystander in Colorado served as a reminder that the beautiful and bulky animals can be very swift and dangerous in the wild.

A person walking in Clear Creek County, about 20 miles west of downtown Denver, happened to encounter a bull moose...

..At first it appears the moose is relaxed and eating leisurely behind a tree, but the animal then...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: colorado; moose; wildanimals
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(video at link and, spoiler, a tree is involved)
1 posted on 08/08/2021 7:55:04 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

A moose once bit my sister.


2 posted on 08/08/2021 8:00:44 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: blueplum

I was walking in the North Idaho woods with my daughter across the road from her house. She suddenly said in a hushed voice, “Turn around and start walking home very fast.” So I did. She told me why later. There was a moose a few feet away in the woods and if it had a young one, it would charge us. If we ran it might charge us too.

Magnificent animals, and the woods were theirs first. I have great respect for them.


3 posted on 08/08/2021 8:05:21 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: blueplum

Why the hell would any sane person get that close to a moose????


4 posted on 08/08/2021 8:07:47 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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To: blueplum

My father always advised me to give moose a lot of room - they are so stupid that even they don’t know what they are going to do. As the video showed, moose are extremely fast for something that big.


5 posted on 08/08/2021 8:08:44 PM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: blueplum

My brother and I use to do a lot of fly fishing around the West Yellowstone area. I had been fly fishing and was walking back to the car along side a tributary to the Gallatin River and I was this moose by the river. All of a sudden he made a charge at me but fortunately I was able to get behind some Pine trees and he eventually went away. Same scenario happen to my brother on the South Fork of the Madison River.


6 posted on 08/08/2021 8:14:46 PM PDT by Parley Baer (go trump )
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To: DannyTN

I once shot a moose in my pajamas. How he got into them I’ll never know.


7 posted on 08/08/2021 8:16:43 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: blueplum

“Hey Rocky, watch me stomp this guy into smithereens!”


8 posted on 08/08/2021 8:18:58 PM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: DannyTN

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti


9 posted on 08/08/2021 8:19:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blueplum

Moose all over my town. Everyone just stays the hell out of the way. They are unpredictable, mean, and very fast.
Only problem is when one decides to take a multi-day break under your deck, lays down, and does not move for 3 days.


10 posted on 08/08/2021 8:22:10 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: fidelis

Was the guy named Boris?


11 posted on 08/08/2021 8:25:39 PM PDT by Valpal1
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To: Parley Baer
I had been fly fishing and was walking back to the car along side a tributary to the Gallatin River and I was this moose by the river.

There was alcohol involved in this fishing trip, wasn't there?

12 posted on 08/08/2021 8:31:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

You have been sacked!


13 posted on 08/08/2021 8:41:21 PM PDT by bwest
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To: bwest

Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.


14 posted on 08/08/2021 8:46:57 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: blueplum

Don’t pet the bison.


15 posted on 08/08/2021 9:04:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: blueplum

I went white water rafting up in Maine some years back, and we went a good distance north, taking a bus the last bunch of miles.

As we approached the jumping off point in the bus, there was an enormous bull moose standing by the side of the road, probably not five feet off the road, and the head was level with the windows, and the enormous, bowl shaped rack went even higher than the windows. (It actually looked at least about the size of the one you linked to in the video)

I was astonished, I had never seen a full grown moose up close like that, and it was simply massive.

As we passed slowly we saw a guy with a camera standing only feet away from the moose, snapping pictures as the moose seemed to passively regard him with those beady moose eyes, chewing cud as if it were just a big cow.

The bus came to a stop, and the driver hissed out the driver window at the guy with the camera something like “Get the f**k away from that moose, you damn fool! Those things can kill you!’

Then he put it into gear and kept going, I recall hearing him mutter all the way up to the place, and I could imagine what he was saying. When we stopped and got off the bus, I remarked on the moose, and the driver said something like “Unbelievable. Those things can go from chewing cud to tearing the crap out of something in no time at all if the mood hits them!”

Funny. That trip was also memorable for another reason-when we got there and were waiting to be processed and given equipment, there were photos all over one wall of rafters and instructors/guides.

I saw one picture of an instructor, and the guy was so insane and deranged looking in the picture, I burst out laughing and said to my friends “Hey, get a load of this guy! How would you like to have HIM as your guide???”

When the guides came out and joined up with groups, I nearly choked...you guessed it, that was our man! Heh, it was good, and we did have a lot of fun.


16 posted on 08/08/2021 9:06:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

where do you live?


17 posted on 08/08/2021 9:08:20 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Parley Baer
"I was this moose by the river. "


How was it, being a moose?

😁

18 posted on 08/08/2021 9:14:14 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: datura

[[Why the hell would any sane person get that close to a moose????]]

To tell it secrets of course


19 posted on 08/08/2021 9:15:08 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: monkeyshine

I told my niece that I saw a moose on the way to work this morning

She said, “How do you know he was on his way to work?


20 posted on 08/08/2021 9:17:57 PM PDT by Bob434
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