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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: cohoho on October 25, 2007, 09:24:32 AM

Title: Moose on a wire
Post by: cohoho on October 25, 2007, 09:24:32 AM: Arranging stuff around and re-discovered this photo, don't know if you have seen it or not? It is from a couple years ago near Fairbanks, the Moose got tangled in the power lines and the line men were a few miles away when they tightened the lines and wondered why so much pressure on the lines. They went back to check and this is what they discovered....
Title: Re: Moose on a wire
Post by: boneaddict on October 27, 2007, 07:02:50 AM: I have seen it, but its a dang cool photo. Could you imagine walking around and running into that...or walking by not having noticed and all of a sudden he comes loose and he lands next to you. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Moose on a wire
Post by: robb92 on October 27, 2007, 10:56:40 PM: What a pic!!!
Title: Re: Moose on a wire
Post by: radman on November 10, 2007, 09:34:40 AM: my wife said she read the story and they let the moose down and he lived another day.......lucky bullwinkle!!
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Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on November 10, 2007, 10:09:51 AM: Radman, they had to shoot the moose... He was all tore up.
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Post by: radman on November 27, 2007, 03:00:17 PM: Really? That's too bad. I was hoping for a better outcome. But sounded too good to be true if he went thru all that unscathed.
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Post by: archery288 on December 01, 2007, 08:05:08 PM: How did that moose get all the way up there!!??
Title: Re: Moose on a wire
Post by: Shadow Cat on December 06, 2007, 09:28:52 PM: And now, for the rest of the story...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_moose_on_wires.htm

Moose on a Wire
Netlore Archive: Emailed image shows an unfortunate moose accidentally strung up on power cables by a utility crew near Fairbanks, Alaska

Description: Emailed image
Circulating since: November 2006
Status: Authentic
Analysis: See below

Comments: True. On October 5, 2004, electric workers were stringing power cable along a stretch of Pogo Mine Road 80 miles southeast of Fairbanks when, unbeknownst to them, a 1,200-pound bull moose became entangled in the cable and was hoisted 50 feet off the ground when the line was winched to the top of the utility poles.

This being real life and not an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle, the incident probably sounds more amusing than it actually was. The moose was still alive when the workers found it, photographed it, and finally lowered it to the ground, but their efforts to disentangle it were thwarted by the critter's own panicked attempts to flee. In the end, after consulting with the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, power company officials decided to put the moose out of its misery. The meat, we're told, was salvaged and donated to a local resident.