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Offline Thebear_78

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Only in Alaska!
« on: March 21, 2007, 10:28:45 PM »
I was woken up around 12am to some strange sounds on my porch.  It sounded like somebody was trying to break in.  I got up and peeked out the window......a calf moose.  It was laying on my porch eating a pumkin that was left over from holloween.  Its actually still sitting there as I type,  snoozing.  This is far from my first run in with moose here in town, I've been up herein alaska for about 6 years now and have become quite accustomed to them.  I even had one steal a banana from me one morning while I was leaving for work........long story.      Little things like this just remind me how lucky I am to live in a great place like alaska.




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Re: Only in Alaska!
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2007, 01:08:31 AM »
That is so cool. ;D
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Re: Only in Alaska!
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2007, 11:13:10 AM »
Bear:  A few years ago my brother came up for several weeks.  We backed the motorhome up to the front door over the porch, where we could step down onto the porch them up into the motorhome door.  We could also turn left and step around the corner of the motorhome.  My brother remembered he had left some fruit out on the table in the yard so he went out and went around the corner of the motorhome real fast.  He litterally ran into the rump of a Cow that was eating the fruit.  Don't know who was the most surprised him or the Moose. 

Back when our son was small, my wife took him out one morning.  She opened the door to the Jeep, put him in his carseat, strapped him in, put her purse and diaper bag on the floor, then slammed the door.  Walked around the Jeep and there was a Moose lying on the ground leaning against the drivers door.  Michelle went back around the Jeep, pushed the seatbelt buckle, lifting the seat with kid still strapped in out of the vehicle.  She ran inside, screaming only after she had closed the front door.

One day while driving a school bus in Eagle River I had a Moose in the drive of one of my dropoffs.  Since the girl was blind I kept her on the bus and had dispatch call her parents.  30 minutes later I went back by, and her Dad was home.  The Dad came out and threw a snowball at the Moose.  The Cow charged, The Dad jumped back inside and slammed the door.  The Moose struck the door with her front feet, knocking out the small glass panel at the top.  She also knocked big holes in the fiberglass door.  There was large glass panels on each side of the door she could have walked through, but she did not know that.  Anyway I backed the buss down his sidewalk to the front door.  I opened the back emergency door and handed the girl down to her Dad.  As I left the Moose attacked the buss, rearing up and striking the side of the buss several times and knocking out two windows. 
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Re: Only in Alaska!
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2007, 05:22:18 PM »
Good thread with good responses. Thanks, Bear.
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Re: Only in Alaska!
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2007, 07:47:23 PM »
my dad took a pic while hunting in Alaska of his guides wife beating a moose over the head with a 2x4 while it munched a big head of her cabbage,pretty funny!
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Re: Only in Alaska!
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 10:26:30 AM »
My friend kristi from wasilla has a picture of her on top of a calf moose when she was about five...  idiot... 


this last winter i was snowmachining down the road home, and came up upon a pretty large moose, antlers had dropped, so didnt know who it was....  she didnt want to move, so i edged a little closer, and reved the engine to try and get her out of the way.  That is when the calf I hadnt seen crossed the road....  I decided it was then about time to turn around and leave her alone, mommas not a good one to mess with. 
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