Ain't superstitious

[Pterodactyl]

Complete ATGATT. Of course every bit of it was cut off of him. Boots, pants, jacket, Nolan and rain gear. I threw it all in a dumpster after he decided he did not want it bad enough to pay shipping from AK to FL.

 

[DiggerDr.]

As a young teenager heading home on the Kawasaki 100, (as fast as it could go of course) I shot by a cow in the fog. Right in the road. I slowed down real quick. I had no license and should not have been on the road. Same applied to the cow.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Ok, another moose story. May have posted this before, if I have then too bad.
Lived in Fairbanks and oversaw the dorms on the campus of the U. of Alaska Fairbanks. A friend from San Diego, (Dean, I think many in the LD world would recognize his name) rode up to go to Deadhorse to start his Prudhoe to Ushuaia trip. He rode up with a local who has ridden the haul road many times. On their way back south they stayed in one of the lodges in Wiseman. At the lodge they met a rider from Miami who was on a Concurs (Paul). He had ridden to Alaska by himself, but once he got to Fairbanks his girlfriend of nearly 30 years (Mary) flew up to meet him. Mary rented a SUV in Fairbanks and followed Paul up to the Arctic Circle and then Wiseman. When Dean returned to Fairbanks my wife (Spousal Unit) and I went to the dorms to pick him up and take hime to dinner. When Dean entered the car he asked if we minded going to the hospital emergency room. After reassuring us he was fine, he said he had received a call from Mary, who he had met once for a few minutes, and she said Paul was hurt and she needed help. Kudos to the university operator who was able to track down Dean in the guest hall based only on the information provided by a distraught person. We went and found Mary in absolute hysteria. She attached herself to Spousal Unit and had a meltdown. Eventually she told us what happened. On their way south it had started to rain and Paul stopped to put on his rain gear. They were on the Elliot Hwy in front of Pump Station 6. Mary was sitting in the SUV behind Paul and said after getting dressed he got on the bike and began to pull away. As he did a large cow moose darted across the road 100 yards in front of him. Paul stopped and let the moose pass into the woods and then began to pull away. As he did the moose charged back out of the woods and rammed Paul from the side; he was doing 25-30 miles MPH when the moose struck. Mary said Paul went down very violently and his head slapped the pavement very hard. The moose also went down, but got up and began stomping Paul several times. Once the moose left Mary went to Paul. Mary is a trauma nurse who has worked many years in the ER of a major trauma center in Miami. She said Paul's helmet (Nolan) had turned 90 degrees and was covering his face. She knew she should not try remove the helmet, but Paul was gaging and she had to do something to allow him to breath. Her training probably saved Paul, or at least his ability to walk. She supported the head and neck and got the helmet turned. Another bit of luck was that the Pump Station they were near had an ambulance and EMT on duty and they were able to get Paul on a back board and evaced to Fairbanks.

When we got to the hospital Paul had been diagnosed with a temporal bruise (he was unconcious for three days, three cracked cervical vertebrae, some cracked ribs, broken ankle, and three cracked vertebrae in the lumbar area and some other relatively minor broken bones. Mary wanted to our advice on where to have Paul evaced, Anchorage or Seattle, she had a rental car full of her belogings and much of Paul's belongings that someone had tossed into the car and she was supposed to turn in the car and fly back to Miami in a few hours. The AirEvac was leaving in a shortwhile so we took everything from Mary and off whe went to Seattle on the evac with Paul.

We were able to get the car turned in, put all their belongings in our house and even got Alaska Air to refund a non-refundable ticket. Paul recovered and over the next several months we communicated about what gear to send to him and what to trash. He had to wear a halo for 5-6 months and was having trouble regaining the strength in one arm the last time I heard from him a year or so after the accident. The Concours Riders club took up a collection and replaced Paul's totaled bike. The one they got him had over 70,000 miles, but the one it replaced had over 140,000 miles.

This sort of behavior by a moose is odd. My best guess is that the cow had a calf that was following her and she attacked when Paul got between momma and her kid. No one saw the calf, but it could have bolted in the opposite direction when all the commotion took place.

I copied that entire post just to say, HOLEEEEE ****! Moose seem to me like giant elk, which means they are just as ******* stupid as deer, but enormous. That makes them dangerous. I have never seen a real moose, but from the pictures I've seen, I wouldn't want to meet a pissed off one up close.

 

[Auburn]

I grew upon a farm in Southern Oregon. Down the road from us another farmer raised Black Angus cattle. He had a big ole bull that weighed about 2200 pounds. The bull got out one night and was standing in the middle of the road. Along came a VW bus that hit him broadside at 35 mph. Caved the whole front in. The driver never knew what they hit. The bull got up and walked back into the field like nothing happened. Good thing was the driver wasn't hurt either, but that VW was about 4 feet shorter than it started out.

 

[erixun]

Problem is Zilla' that moose are worse than elk and deer, because usually those other two run away from you or cars.

I have been hunting and had a moose bull walk right by me without any fear, just giving me a few snorts to let me know he was there. My brother watched the whole thing and kept thinking we was going to stomp me, but I kept some rather large trees between him and I. Not sure that moose even see roadways as a threat to them.

 

[RadioHowie]

First time I saw a moose up close and personal, I was vacationing in upstate Vermont, a little town called Newport.

The wife and I were staying at a Bed and Breakfast and in the evening, walked across the street to a restaurant for dinner.

As we're crossing the street, we have to wait on a pickup truck coming down the road. Strapped to the truck was a dead moose. The moose's nose was hanging down by the truck's front bumper. The feet were hanging over the pickup's tailgate. And it was a big, F-350 dually crewcab!!

That damn moose was longer than an F-350 crewcab!!

 

[Bill Lumberg]

I remember a buddy of mine from Canada explaining to me that, yes, deer in the southeast are a nuisance and tear up vehicles, but moosen (the plural of moose) kill people. I've become somewhat complacent about deer, which is wrong. The odd thing is, the only close calls I've had were when I was almost been cleaned off the bike twice by airborne wild turkeys. They get big and look even bigger flying into your path when you're at speed.

 

[Bill Lumberg]

Dcarver's picture depicts a moose that is clearly sleeping it off after a night of drinking. Imagine the shame that moose felt with it awoke all laid up in the car like that, confused about exactly how the night ended.

 

[bluesdog]

Problem is Zilla' that moose are worse than elk and deer, because usually those other two run away from you or cars.
I have been hunting and had a moose bull walk right by me without any fear, just giving me a few snorts to let me know he was there. My brother watched the whole thing and kept thinking we was going to stomp me, but I kept some rather large trees between him and I. Not sure that moose even see roadways as a threat to them.

Moose not only do not run away; they are just as likely to attack, especially the bulls in rut. They won't back down even from oncoming trains!

 

[BigOgre]

ut moosen (the plural of moose) kill people.

 

I got my learnin' for today.

Always wondered about that. Meese never sounded right but . . . why isn't it goosen?

 

Soo many things to think about.

 

[ionbeam]

ut moosen (the plural of moose) kill people.

 

I got my learnin' for today.

Always wondered about that. Meese never sounded right but . . . why isn't it goosen?

 

Soo many things to think about.

 

Oh deer. Wait that's just one deer, when referring to more than one it is pronounced deer. A deer. The deer. Oh ****, DEER IN THE ROAD -- word use and animal count no longer matter when there is one or more large brown ungulates in your path.