a cautionary tale for moose everywhere
A moose extreme sports enthusiast comes to a tragic end.
I'm impressed that the moose actually survived the experience (if not for long).
I'm also somewhat bemused at the importance put on salvaging the meat (to the extent that they decided not to tranquilize the moose since it might die anyway and the tranks would make the meat inedible). I'm pretty sure that if this had happened almost anywhere in the Lower 48 that people would have been screaming at the very idea of anyone eating such a, um, noble addition to the moose gene pool. (And on the flip side, I expect that moose die all the time in Alaska and go uneaten by humans, so I wouldn't expect that wasting the meat would be that big a deal.)
Anyway, your bizarre news item for the day.
I'm impressed that the moose actually survived the experience (if not for long).
I'm also somewhat bemused at the importance put on salvaging the meat (to the extent that they decided not to tranquilize the moose since it might die anyway and the tranks would make the meat inedible). I'm pretty sure that if this had happened almost anywhere in the Lower 48 that people would have been screaming at the very idea of anyone eating such a, um, noble addition to the moose gene pool. (And on the flip side, I expect that moose die all the time in Alaska and go uneaten by humans, so I wouldn't expect that wasting the meat would be that big a deal.)
Anyway, your bizarre news item for the day.