...Sarah Palin seen yelling "Pull!" and aiming rifle just before takeoff

That's just ... weird.

How would you like to be plucked out of your living room, be hung from a helicopter, and then be dropped on your new home that you didn't get to choose?

Or maybe I'm overthinking this ;)

Moose in question

The headline had me hoping that the music from Apocalypse Now would be playing in the background as a squadron of helicopters carrying moose flew into Colorado. I was disappointed.

Moose using helicopters to stage airborne invasion of Colorado

Unlike the Texans who used pick up trucks.

FTFA:He and his colleagues in Utah are rounding up nearly two dozen moose.

you have one goose and many geese, shouldn't you have one moose and many meese?

Moose using helicopters to stage airborne invasion of Colorado

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

That's a very nicely painted helicopter.

(This is getting to be an annual story, but it always is a great video.)

They recently had a CWD (Chronic wasting disease) outbreak in Colorado. I hope this relocation doesn't backfire in the long run.

/Remembers studying at Pingree Park and having a huge bull moose walk right up to me.
// Moose hump. Almost better than prime rib.

Brian, whats the plural of Moose?
Uh... Moosen! I saw a flock of Moosen! there were many much moosen.

Want

Isn't that so humanitarian! Move rather than kill the Moose from Utah, where there are too many of them, to Colorado so that residents there can hunt and kill them there. Whoo hoo!

Oh yeah, and put tracking devices on them so that hunters can figure out where they frequent, giving them much more of a chance of finding them!

"...Bullwinkle's in the woods far away from here,
with a radio collar and a tag in his ear..."

/Haywood Banks!

LonMead: Moose using helicopters to stage airborne invasion of Colorado

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Came for this and left smiling.

Moose Spec-Ops

PalmAddict: Isn't that so humanitarian! Move rather than kill the Moose from Utah, where there are too many of them, to Colorado so that residents there can hunt and kill them there. Whoo hoo!

Oh yeah, and put tracking devices on them so that hunters can figure out where they frequent, giving them much more of a chance of finding them!


Yep, you figured it out all right. We just call up the Forest Service and they give us the coordinates of the moose...

Why to I hear the "Flight of the Valkyries" in my mind when I watch that video?

ka1axy: Why to I hear the "Flight of the Valkyries" in my mind when I watch that video?

Because that's the natural response.

PalmAddict: Isn't that so humanitarian! Move rather than kill the Moose from Utah, where there are too many of them, to Colorado so that residents there can hunt and kill them there. Whoo hoo!

Oh yeah, and put tracking devices on them so that hunters can figure out where they frequent, giving them much more of a chance of finding them!

Moose's thoughts:

Grass tasty.

Yum.

/fart

Wha?

OOOOFF!

Wha? Wha?

OMG! I'm flying! Must be dream!

NO FALL! NO FALL!

::gulp::

/faint

Wha?

Ground. Cold. Solid.

Who ARE these people?

No, I don't want to wear that!

No! DO NOT WANT!

::sigh::

Grass tasty.

SpinStopper How would you like to be plucked out of your living room

I assume they dope them up pretty good before takeoff. If they're gonna give Me free drugs I'd probly enjoy the scenic chopper ride. ..and they'd have to give me a bag or two for next day's wakeup, until I can cop for Myself.

The_HR_Issue: They recently had a CWD (Chronic wasting disease) outbreak in Colorado.

We call it "hunting season" in Pennsylvania.

RogermcAllen: Moose Spec-Ops

what's the story behind that pic?

crunchief: whats the story behind that pic?



Fairbanks, Alaska 5-Oct-2004 [JP]: Only in Alaska! A trophy-sized bull moose was accidentally strung up in a power line, under construction to the Teck Pogo gold mine - 80 miles southeast of Fairbanks. Seems like the moose got its antlers tangled in electrical wire just as workers farther down the line pulled the line tight. The moose was suspended 50 feet in the air when workers recognized something was wrong and backtracked to find the Wired Moose.

The moose was alive when lowered to the ground, but was killed 2 hours later by Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials who were worried about the highly-stressed moose and its condition. The moose had an antler spread of 62 inches and weighed ~ 1,200 pounds - a trophy bull by Alaska's big game standards.

The meat was salvaged and donated to a local resident, but the antlers have gone missing, and Dave Davenport (an Alaska Department of Fish and Game technician) is in the process of tracking them down... after all, they're now state property!

Resident theory has it that the bull moose - in a rut-inspired testosterone-filled moment - decided to challenge the moving power line to a fight. Eventually it got tangled in static, half-inch cable that was being strung up next to the power lines to serve as a lightning rod.

thanks

those residents better learn to play WoW so they can get feign death like this moose thwarting kid

"Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, recently survived a moose attack by feigning death, "just like you learn at level 30 in World of Warcraft."

In WoW, "feign death" is a skill acquired by hunters at level 30 that allows them to take a page from the possum playbook, collapse to the ground, and convince their enemies -- who lose all ingrained animosity in the process -- that they've died.


According to Norwegian site Nettavisen , Hans and his sister apparently enraged one of the local moose (mooses? meese?) during a walk in the forest near their home. After shouting at the gigantic creature to ward it away from his sister, Olsen dropped to the ground, and presumably his lifebar plummeted to zero.

Moose have never been known as the wisest creature in the forest, and the boy's show of necrosis seems to have worked, as both he and his sister survived intact.

It's easy to decry video games as a menace to society but in a world where MMOs save adorable, tow-headed Norwegian children from a deadly moose, can they really be that bad?"

Farking rednecks can't wait to shoot them.

This is probably the Moose version of what some humans call "Alien Abduction".

TripSixes: Farking rednecks can't wait to shoot them.

Homo say wha?

TripSixes: Farking rednecks can't wait to shoot them.



At least nobody is trying to rape them...

Airborne invasion of Colorado?

This comment wins on Sarah Palin references, but leaves me disappointed on Red Dawn references....

Ahem, this *thread*

Years ago when they did this they set some loose up in the mountains and, as moose prefer rivers, the moose just wandered down to the nearest river or stream. Some of them turned up quite a distance from where they started and really freaked out the locals.

Yeah, but these Utah moose are just going to annoy the Colorado moose when they start traveling around on bicycles and trying to give out copies of the Book of Mormon.

The_HR_Issue: They recently had a CWD (Chronic wasting disease) outbreak in Colorado.

Recently? As long as I can remember, everyone I've known from Colorado has been either chronic, wasted, or both.