Sunday, January 01, 2006
High Wire Act
December can be hard on Moose. Many are killed wandering down the highway. Others just seemed annoyed. One attacked a Moose statue in Oslo. Another attacked a couple of joggers. Another Moose rang a doorbell twice in Norway apparently just to let people know that it is not always the postman who rings twice. It was reported sometime back that it was illegal for a Moose to walk on the sidewalk in Fairbanks, although officials there denied that that was the case. It is illegal, however, to give a Moose a drink there, especially Duck Fart which is all the rage up here. At Wasilla about 40 miles up the road from Anchorage, it became necessary to put up a Moose mat similar to a cattle guard to keep them out since they had became rather adept at going through the gates around the airport (not boarding gates thank goodness because security might have just waved them on through). A few days ago the Anchorage Daily News had a picture of a Moose festooned with a string of Christmas lights around its neck, a fairly common occurrence here I am told. After all it is the season for Moose too! A few months ago a Moose got entangled with some wires while it was grazing. As the light crew down the road applied tension to the wires to attach them to a tower, the moose suddenly found itself dangling high above the ground until someone spotted it and it was rescued. A great high wire act if ever there was one. Too bad Barnum and Bailey were not there to sign the Moose up.
December can be hard on Moose. Many are killed wandering down the highway. Others just seemed annoyed. One attacked a Moose statue in Oslo. Another attacked a couple of joggers. Another Moose rang a doorbell twice in Norway apparently just to let people know that it is not always the postman who rings twice. It was reported sometime back that it was illegal for a Moose to walk on the sidewalk in Fairbanks, although officials there denied that that was the case. It is illegal, however, to give a Moose a drink there, especially Duck Fart which is all the rage up here. At Wasilla about 40 miles up the road from Anchorage, it became necessary to put up a Moose mat similar to a cattle guard to keep them out since they had became rather adept at going through the gates around the airport (not boarding gates thank goodness because security might have just waved them on through). A few days ago the Anchorage Daily News had a picture of a Moose festooned with a string of Christmas lights around its neck, a fairly common occurrence here I am told. After all it is the season for Moose too! A few months ago a Moose got entangled with some wires while it was grazing. As the light crew down the road applied tension to the wires to attach them to a tower, the moose suddenly found itself dangling high above the ground until someone spotted it and it was rescued. A great high wire act if ever there was one. Too bad Barnum and Bailey were not there to sign the Moose up.
