Guy Kicks Moose. Then Comes the Payback 'Never a good idea,' says Fish and Game spokesman

[Demovictory9]

A man was injured north of Anchorage after a moose that he had just kicked stomped his foot in return, state officials said. KTVA-TV reported the man escaped with major injuries in the encounter Thursday with the moose and her calf, the AP reports. "It sounds like the moose were on a trail and in this case, it sounds like the guy was trying to go through them," State Department of Fish and Game spokesman Ken Marsh says. "That's never a good idea." The two moose left the area after the man had his foot stomped, says Alaska Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters.

"I am not a biologist, but as a lifelong Alaskan I would advise people not to go around kicking moose," Peters says. Moose have vast leg strength, Marsh said. "If you get into a kicking contest with a moose, guess who's going to win?" South-central Alaska has seen a number of violent incidents involving moose this spring, including a man who had a moose swipe at him with its hoof while feeding it and a cocker spaniel attacked by a moose in an Anchorage yard. Marsh says moose sightings are on the rise as females prepare for calving season in mid-May.

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[gratuitous]

1. The Palin family thanks newser for not identifying the doofus

Whoa, if true.

[Demovictory9]

3. another source

The guy apparently walked up to the cow and kicked it because he wanted it to move out of his way," troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said in an email. "I am also not a moose mind reader … but I am fairly certain the cow did not like this as it kicked back and then left with its calf in tow."

It's unclear whether he was kicked or stomped.

The man wasn't badly hurt but his foot was injured, said Ken Barkley, fire deputy director for the Mat-Su emergency services department.

"The guy's foot got stepped on by a moose," Barkley said.

Two Houston firefighters responded to make sure the scene was safe, Houston Chief Christian Hartley said. A borough ambulance responded, but Barkley said he didn't know if the man was transported to the hospital.

The cow and calf were gone by the time Alaska Wildlife Troopers arrived in case there was still an aggressive moose nearby, Peters said

.https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2018/04/05/just-dont-do-that-man-kicks-moose-and-gets-similar-treatment/

[DFW]

15. Moose have long had issues with Palin

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[raven mad]

23. Oh, it's true. n/t

[Leghorn21]

2. Oh hell yeah MOOSE!! Do not kick moose, moose break your foot, dumbass!!

Aaahhhh, look how gorgeous they are!! - thanks for posting, 9!

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Sarah heard the moose voted for Obama, so she kicked it

[csziggy]

5. He's really, really lucky that only his foot was injured

That mama moose could have stomped him to death!

We had a mare whose foal was in difficulties. When the vet was trying to treat the foal, the mare took a chunk out of the vet's back. The vet had to get a lot of stitches and was laid for for a couple of months.

A couple of years later she had another foal. To protect everyone we separated the mare and foal from all the other horses and warned everybody to not enter that pasture. While we were watching the foal from a distance one of our cats went under the fence. The mare grabbed the cat with her mouth around his rib cage, picked him up and THREW him about thirty feet. The cat got out of the pasture and we took him to the vet to be checked out.

Amazingly he had no broken bones so we thought he was OK. A few days later he showed up with a hernia from one hip to the other. We spent several hundred bucks getting the cat fixed back up.

I sold that mare and her foal. Aggressive and crazy were not what I wanted to breed for, no matter how beautiful the horse was.

[Demovictory9]

6. "aggressive and crazy" or just being a protective mom?

[csziggy]

8. I had dozens of broodmares over the years and none as crazy as that mare

Most would just crowd between their foals and people, but not try to hurt anyone. One mare that I raised from a foal knocked me down while trying to chase the dog she'd known all her life out of the pasture - but she never even hurt the dog. She jumped over me and other than knocking me to the ground didn't hurt me. Once the dog went away she came back to me for scratches.

I have had mares be canine aggressive - but they did not hurt the other animals. With dogs, foxes, and coyotes running free in the area it made sense for them to be antagonistic to canines. We had a neighbor who let their Rottweiler run free. One day I watched three of my mares chase him around the pasture. If they had wanted to kill him, they could have made a bloody smear of him. Eventually the dog ducked under the fence to what he thought was safety. HAH! The weaned foals from those mares were in that lower pasture and had been watching their mamas chase that dog. They had fun chasing him around for another five-ten minutes.

Protective is one thing, aggressive is another for horses raised by humans and handled by them almost every day of their lives.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Up for the Darwin Award

[RandomAccess]

9. That moose looks about 7 ft tall to me

Wow.

[raven mad]

24. Easily.

[SonofDonald]

10. I was cornered by a huge adult male moose

My dog was barking his brains out, I went around to that side of the building to see him just screaming at a moose that was looking him In the eye.

Ten feet off the ground on the second floor deck.

He swung his head around to look at me, all the hair on his back stood up, uh oh....

I ran to between two forty foot fuel trucks that he couldn't follow me in to, he kept me in there for around 15-20 minutes, he'd stick his head in to look at me, his hair would stand up and he'd snort at me.

His lady and calf were about 100 feet away and until they moved off we kept up our little dance.

They will stomp you into the dirt and kill people every year in Alaska, that's one stupid but lucky guy.

[Initech]

11. A moose once bit my sister....

No realli! She was carving her initials into the møøse...

[redwitch]

14. Lol

I loved those silly credits! Love Monty Python!

[Initech]

16. The people responsible for this post have been sacked.

[redwitch]

18. I need to watch it another hundred times or so.

It might actually cheer me up.

[mountain grammy]

19. OMG.. haven't thought about that for years..

[sdfernando]

12. DO NOT COME NEAR A MOOSE BULL MOOSE AND A CALF

When I was in maybe 5th grade and living in Alaska I was observing a moose and her calf from us say 200 feet. The bull moose off to the side suddenly charged. I didn't know I could run so fast.

[alittlelark]

13. I worked in Yellowstone NP in 1985 - we were warned about moose....

Esp the females. They are grumpy and intolerant. I remember walking back to the Lake Hotel dorms late at night a few times and realizing I was surrounded by moose....very scary.

[Scurrilous]

17. Things like this is why Walley World never took off.

[demigoddess]

20. hey stupid, NEVER MESS WITH A MAMA.

deserved what you got!

[Wounded Bear]

21. Ummm, perhaps on shouldn't antagonize things that are bigger than you...

especially wild animals with their young around.

[raven mad]

22. Asshole. Idiotic, Palin-brained transplant from the planet Imadumfuck.

The ONLY animal more dangerous here are the bears. And this fuckwit is doubly STUPID because 99.9% of the time, all it takes to shoo mama away is noise. Yep, just yell or bang on a metal pole or WHAT ever is convenient. The moose will saunter off, unafraid and undoubtedly laughing her butt off sotto voce....

I'll lay odds he's never seen what the Alaskan species of these huge ungulates can do to a full-size 4x4 truck or SUV. It isn't pretty. And 3/4 of the time, the moose walks away. Not so the vehicle, which is likely totalled.

Send him back to the Lower 48 or whatever slime hole he came from before he uses his sTrumpet-infected brain and decide that bears can be kicked, too. THEN the Cheechakos will decided it is the bear's fault, and DEMAND it be killed.

Sorry, ranting. I HATE shit-for-brains, too fucking dumb to live pissants. In this case, mama could have done a lot more damage. Too bad.

I am betting he was drunk or had on a load of meth.