State Trooper vs Moose

[mwilson]

Happened last night about 45 miles North of me, very lucky Trooper.

He is ok from what the MSP is saying..


He was responding to a call so you know he was making tracks..

 

[DavidC]

That's the problem with those Maine Moose, they are so friggin big the front end hits the legs and the bulk goes into the windshield. Quite a few Airman died at Loring during that very scenario.

 

[TFucili]

Very lucky it wasn't straight on. Looks like the A-Pillar kept it from occupying the seat with him.

 

[Jim W]

I worked with an engineer who was from Maine for a while. On a visit to his mother’s house for Christmas break a Moose jumped his car. The Mazda RX-7 had a hoof print in the mid of the roof and dented in a few inches. He said that the only thing that saved him from serious injury was that the car was small and the Moose could easily jump over the car.

I have seen what deer can do to a vehicle when a car hits’ one. I can’t imagine what a Moose can do to a car traveling at 55 to 60 MPH as it hits a Moose that weighs a lot more than a deer.

 

[DavidC]

I remember going down the flight line and there was a Moose inside the fence at flight operations/control tower with it's head over the fence. That fence was at least 8' tall. We had B-52's doing low level strafing when the Moose would be on the run way, now that was quite the site.

 

[GCroyle]

Best wishes to the Maine State Trooper.

 

[HPSimpson]

Glad the State Trooper is ok.

 

[dieselshadow]

Yup, pretty common occurrence in Alaska. Turns a lot of cars into convertibles, trucks into junk, and the moose into freezer filler.

 

[Wayne M.]

I saw some moose in the Smokys. They are friggn huge.

 

[TFucili]

"Horse with antlers"

 

[Cummins12V98]

I would make sure that SOB was in my freezer!

 

[jhenderson]

Not much meat worth anything after that sort of accident. Most all of it will be bruised and bloody, and if it didn’t immediately kill the moose what’s salvageable will be very strongly flavored from adrenaline.

 

[dieselshadow]

Not much meat worth anything after that sort of accident. Most all of it will be bruised and bloody, and if it didn’t immediately kill the moose what’s salvageable will be very strongly flavored from adrenaline.

We salvaged a lot of meat in Alaska from moose hits all the time. You simply didn’t recover the bad meat. Was all of it great? No. But moose meat in general was excellent. I think it’s a great program and still runs to this day.

There’s a list the Troopers use. You have to be certified to be on it. They call you, you move. They stay on site usually until you have recovered the animal. Most times all the meat goes to charity, you are allowed to keep a percentage. I wasn’t on the list by my name, but I’ve helped friends who were on the list regularly. It’s a huge amount of work to recover any moose, let alone on the side of the road in the cold and dark. I think after experiencing this that this program is one of the best things Alaska has going for itself. There a huge sense of community there, something you don’t see here in the lower 48 on a regular basis.

 

[gsbrockman]

I’d love to see the dash cam footage...

 

[Tractorat]

When I was a kid visiting relative in northern minn, one morning there was a moose with a huge rack just standing there looking in the window at us.

 

[Cummins12V98]

On trans Canada Highway had an Elk literally jump from left to right over my hood at 70mph. My friend had just woke up and saw it. Glad he did because it was unbelievable.

 

[jhenderson]

A lot of work for

We salvaged a lot of meat in Alaska from moose hits all the time. You simply didn’t recover the bad meat. Was all of it great? No. But moose meat in general was excellent. I think it’s a great program and still runs to this day.

There’s a list the Troopers use. You have to be certified to be on it. They call you, you move. They stay on site usually until you have recovered the animal. Most times all the meat goes to charity, you are allowed to keep a percentage. I wasn’t on the list by my name, but I’ve helped friends who were on the list regularly. It’s a huge amount of work to recover any moose, let alone on the side of the road in the cold and dark. I think after experiencing this that this program is one of the best things Alaska has going for itself. There a huge sense of community there, something you don’t see here in the lower 48 on a regular basis.

I’ve only been involved in processing 2 moose. For the work involved in skinning, let alone gutting and disposing of several hundred pounds of waste I wouldn’t want to go through it for 1/2 the meat. But that’s just me. Glad you made use of what was provided.