From My Way.
Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the sky about 20 feet in front of his patrol car. “Falling rock!” he thought, ready to steer clear if it bounced onto the highway.
The thing didn’t roll or shatter. It turned out to be a moose that fell from cliffs next to the highway.
Drivers often see Dall sheep on the cliffs but rarely moose. Peterson estimates the animal fell 150 feet or more.
It was windy that night, Peterson said, and a gust may have startled the moose into a fatal fall.
“They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us,” said wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott. “They slip and fall. Maybe he was reaching for a branch and the snow just gave way.”
They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us??!! I guess so. I would imagine that this would rank up there with the all-time “bad days” for a moose.
Strange as it may seem, this sort of thing has happened before; stranger still, even in urban areas.
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Tags: anchorage, bad day, falling moose, howard peterson, Rick Sinnott, seward highway
Jayne d'Arcy wrote,
Bad day??? No freakin’ kidding!!
Link | February 12th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
guitarFlame wrote,
Ha, ha! That’s funny! Falling moose, watch out!!
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Link | February 13th, 2008 at 3:49 am