Yesterday, driving up to Quebec I saw the first moose kill accident in my life. It was one of those big Ford trucks. I think someone was hurt because the ambulance was leaving the scene with the sirens and all. The truck was totally destroyed on the front. The moose was dead, in the middle of the road.
That stuff is freaking scary. I had my deer in the headlights on 5 inch snow at 55 mph last Christmas eve. It wouldn't move, my car spun a few times before ending, in a spectacular snow-flying-over-the-car-like-a-piece-of-art-work, in 8 feet snow into the median. Luckily, my car was not scratched.
But after seeing that accident yesterday, I was totally scared like hell.
You northern-states/provinces dwellers, drive carefully.
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M'mmm, moose.
We get whitetail (up to 300 lbs) collisions in Michigan all the time, but I'm sure it doesn't compare to the damage that a moose (up to 1300 lbs) would do at highway speeds. Those critters are friggin' huge. The stupid beasts refuse to traverse the roads at the Moose Crossing signs. I've heard it theorized these accidents are caused by most of the cervids being either illiterate or obstinate.
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J sub D, that was really funny. I thought the signs were for the stupid humans who would not read them.
BTW, it might not have been a moose. But it was a huge creature.
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And, to make it all worse, moose are totally pavement/dirt colored at night. If you don't have your eyes wide open and your high beams on, you can easily miss them on the side (or the middle!) of the road. I have come very, very close to hitting a moose, and only realized it a moment after the fact.
These signs
used to have actual yearly accident totals, before the State got tired of updating them all the time.
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Apparently, moose don't give a shit about cars either. They will just stand there and look at your car until they get creamed...also, their height means that you hit their legs and sweep them into your lap. Yuck.
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I bought these "whistles" that one can stick to the car but never actually cared to stick them. I do not know how effective these are. May be now is the time.
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The worst things about moose is the fact that their long legs put their bodies at a perfect height to go over the hood of your car and into the passenger compartment through the windshield. The pickup driver would probably survive, as he would be higher up, but for ordinary passenger cars, hitting 1300 lbs of moosemeat at speeds > 40 mph is deadly. (The math nerds can calculate the forces.)
Ali. Those 'whistles' are useless. Their is no statistically significant difference in the rate of collisions with deer/elk/moose between cars having them and cars not having them.
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At some point I thought you're making a joke. Here is what I think would be the right way to say it:
So I am not sure whose at fault, the moose in poorly designing their bodies or humans in poorly designing (or, ehem, choosing) their cars.
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Moose have evolved to feed in marshes and to run through brush. Hence the long legs.
Cars are designed to travel efficiently on paved roads. Hence the low profile.
When the moose enter territory that does not suit their evolutionary traits, the results are not good. Especially for the moose.
BTW: What name can we give a Muslim grammar-nazi? ;)
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Mo the grammar-nazi?
I imagine that cars with roofs nearly as high as the hood (hence the windshield is not large enough for the body to enter through th front), or if the car is low enough (so that the moose body just rolls over the roof) then that would be a good design. A Lamborghini say. Too expensive for me though.
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Those whistles don't work, but a missile or two would probably do the job.
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The solution is to weld a 9-foot-tall tubular steel "fence" to the front of all cars sold in moose country. Better yet, they should be triangular as seen from above, with the point in front, to push any collided-with moose to the sides. A moose-catcher.
Hmm, looks like "moose-catchers" already exist -- see here -- but they are totally inferior to my proposed design. They really need to be 9 feet tall and angled to push the moose off to the sides. Might want to add a "yop" too to be extra sure of keeping the moose off your windshield and roof.
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BTW: What name can we give a Muslim grammar-nazi? ;)
Islamo-pedanticist?
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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Friend of mine went to Michigan Tech. Hit a bear one night trying to drive back to the LP. Totalled the car, made a mess of the bear.
Oh and:
Muslim grammar-nazi = Madrasah-marm
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Islamo-grammato-fascist.
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This trip to Canada, at the cost of causing a multi-vehicle highway accident, I avoided hitting a similarly adorable family:
Later in the trip, in VT, I almost killed one of these:
Driving in daylight is much better than driving at night. You get the option of killing little things as opposed to big things, and possibly yourself along with it.
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MMMMMMM
Duck puree!
And some beaver to eat afterwards.
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I am not sure you'll get much of either if they're road kill.
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In the house my wife grew up in in Costa Rica, there is a book case that she was fond of putting stickers on when she was little. It amuses me that somehow this sticker and it's lame pun made it all the way down there to, what was at the time, a non-english speaking household:
"They civilize left, They civilize right
Till nothing is left, Till nothing is right"
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Dead moose available on Craigslist!
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That's a funny ad, JD.
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Aww, damn. That's what I get for not regularly checking Craigslist. Not that I need a moose, particularly one that I can't eat.
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