Unlike most crap floating around the internet those pictures of the moose hanging from the powerlines are real. That happened when they were stringing power lines to the Pogo Gold mine near Delta Junction, Alaska. They laid out several miles of line at a time and then winched them up into place. The lines were hanging a few feet from the ground and that rut crazed bull decided to whoop some ass. He got his antlers tangled up and when the crew started to winch they realized something was wrong. They went back down the line and found him hanging there. They dropped him down right away so he was only airborne for a matter of minutes, but they couldn't get him free once he was down. They contacted Fish and Game and they told the workers to shoot him (moose season was already over). His antler spread was over 60" wide. Hell of a waste of a trophy bull moose, but it sure makes for an interesting story.
Fish and Game tranquilized him, then decided after he was down that he was too stressed to survive, so they shot him. No meat could be salvaged because he was full of tranquilizers.
I knew about this about a year or so ago when it happened... Truly a freak accident.
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"If you ever go into the bush, there are grizzly bears lurking behind just about every bush, waiting to pounce, so you need a powerful gun with huge bullets" - Gatehouse ~ 2004
Fish and Game tranquilized him, then decided after he was down that he was too stressed to survive, so they shot him. No meat could be salvaged because he was full of tranquilizers.
The story that was published in the Fairbanks News-Miner said the workers contacted Fish & Game and told them what had happened. F&G was initially skeptical, but after mulling it around they decided that the workers should just shoot the bull because one of them had a rifle available. They salvaged the meat and the rack was supposedly in the office of the Pogo Mine for some time after the incident. It wouldn't make much sense to tranquilize him and then shoot him. They'd just shoot him and save the drugs for later. It doesn't really matter though. The point is, the pictures are real and the moose was shot after he was brought down. Definately one of those only in AK stories.
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