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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
The first few months I lived in Alaska, I never saw a moose. Now I'm completely over them. From having to deal with, "Moose Assaults" at work in the trauma rooms with patients who were on the wrong end of a moose's attitude, to miraculously driving through a herd of them on Knik River Road and not managing to hit one, to security alerts at work from one walking through the automatic entry doors and into the lobby of the hospital, to 3 years ago when a momma and calf ate the Aspen trees I planted in my front yard to to 2 years ago of my dog biting one in the nose to today and one eating the Aspen trees I planted, nursed back to health after the first moose buffet now munched on again. Fuck Bullwinkle and his flying little friend as well. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | ||
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Excellent rant. I give it a 9.6.  | |||
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thin skin can't win |
No aspens. Got it.  9.7, bump for conciseness You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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And don't get me started on cleaning up the ping pong balls. This message has been edited. Last edited by: bendable, Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Diablo Blanco |
9.8 for including Bulwinkle’s A-hole flying friend. _________________________ "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last” - Winston Churchil | |||
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Would deer/rabbit repellant work to repel moose from munching your trees? Just a thought. They used to walk by our quarters at Fort Richardson back in the early '80s. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Lest we not forget the "Moose Nuggets" left behind that some of the locals collect and transform the nuggets into "Moose Nugget Jewelry" and sell the nuggets to the tourist who do not know any better.....personal knowledge during the 1970"s .......................... drill sgt. le | |||
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Here in the Yoop, the Moose casually stroll out into the middle of the highway. This brings a complete shutdown of both lanes. Then they just stand there for an hour or so. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Spread the Disease |
I made small, cylindrical cages out of rolls of horse fence and t-posts to protect my small trees from deer. Dunno if that would be enough for moose. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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In Odin we trust |
Agreed Z. I've been here in the Interior since 2002. I despise moose. Idiot creatures with bad tempers. Before retirement from LE a few years back I'd dispatched at least 60 of them after being hit by cars, including a few fatality accidents (drivers dead, not the moose). They cannot be domesticated, and they are dangerous. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I had moose cages around my hardwood trees when I lived in Anchorage. Had a lot of moose in my front yard, but never had any tree damage. Moose cages are ugly, but IME they worked.  Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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I'm not a fan. They frequent my yard, eat my fruit trees, and ram my fence when the dog is outside. Crazy and bad tempered. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
I hate meeses to pieces Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
When I worked in Maine for a couple years, we had to take a Maine-specific driving class in order to get on the company's insurance and drive company vehicles. It consisted ~90% of what to do if there's a moose in the road, and how bad it would be to hit one, and ~10% about how to negotiate a roundabout (which weren't a thing outside of New England in those days). The instructor used a line that went like: "If you have a choice between hitting a moose or swerving and hitting a tree, aim for the tree... It'll hurt less." | |||
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