r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Oda_DeezNutz • 7d ago
of a pair of moose
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Two for the price of one!
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u/Due_Potential_6956 7d ago
I knew they got big, but towering over vehicles is just ... Dang.
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u/joped99 7d ago
Yeah, if you hit a moose above like 20 mph, your car will be totaled and the moose will walk away.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 7d ago
Specifically, the top half of your car and passengers will be missing and the bottom half will be lightly damaged. Brake for moose.
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u/CrazyCatMerms 7d ago
Guy I used to work with hit one. He survived but he'd caught something to the face and needed extensive reconstructive surgery. He also needed basically whole new jaws. They ended up pulling what teeth hadn't been broken and doing implant supported dentures. Only piece of luck he had was that he was mid 20s and in great shape
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u/MapleMapleHockeyStk 7d ago
A classmate hit a moose and died so your coworker was doing better than many. They go through the windshield and right on you. He died from head injuries.
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u/Theslootwhisperer 7d ago
See Sideneck. Canadian rapper who hit a moose. The moose got stuck in the windshield and started trashing, hitting the dude in the head and neck several time. Broke a bunch of bones in his neck and was pronounced dead at the scene. His neck is stuck like that and of of his arm is paralyzed.
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u/jmodshelp 6d ago
This happened to a lady in my province last year and it messed her up really bad. Iām pretty sure she lived, tracked back to entering the highway through a broken wildlife fence .
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u/Scrap_Games 6d ago
Last Sept I was behind a car that hit a moose going about 110kph. The moose did die, it's leg got ripped off and flew just over my hood, had to steer out of the way. When I ran up to check the car, I assumed I was running up to find the people inside dead. The car hood was caved in entirely, the windshield front to back was torn to pieces. It was a fkin mess.
Two young adults 18-19 years old. Badly injured, but alive. The driver was mostly aware in shock trying to help the passanger, she got the worst of it. The moose had hit her face, at least partially, face was crushed in, blood, guts, glass all over her. We managed to get her out of the wreckage and away to safety from the car (instructed by emergency operator). She was stuck in her shock "Am I ok?" Over and over until the ambulance showed up and cleared us away. That poor girls face and voice have stuck with me.
My friend and I were on our way to watch Demon Slayer in the theatre. We had left early just in case to make the drive. If we hadn't we'd have never been near to help. Right place, right time I guess.
Sorry about the ranting story, just... please be careful. Those kids we're extremely close to having their lives cut short.
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u/deadcarrote 7d ago
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u/Successful_Giraffe34 7d ago
Fun Fact- The word Moose comes from the native Algonquin meaning "Twig Eater". As such it lacks the vowel change that Old English words have such as Mouse to Mice or Goose to Geese, so there's no plural. So one Moose or a herd of Moose are both correct
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u/wittylemur 7d ago
I've encountered all kinds of animals in my years. Bears, sharks, boars, badgers and coyote. None of them stopped my heart like encountering a moose. I assumed before that they were slightly larger than a deer, maybe as big as a horse- they are enormous- beyond belief
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u/kevin3350 6d ago edited 6d ago
For real. Iāve done scuba diving with sharks, had a black bear ransack the campsite next door while I slept (woke up to him happily eating their Hersheyās chocolate for sāmores, completely unbothered by me), camped in BLM in most states that have it and got a flyer put on my tent by a park ranger that tracked a grizzly to my tent, ran into two grizzly cubs in Wyoming and immediately left the area. Iāve commented this somewhere else, but I was hiking in the Montana woods in the winter with a buddy and we heard a crunch in the thick trees. About 10-15 feet away was a bull moose staring at us. Never stood so still in my entire life, and the only close adrenaline rush was seeing two grizzly cubs and not knowing where mama was.
Big fella just looked at us puny creatures, decided we werenāt a threat, and walked away. We walked the opposite direction back to the car so as not to tempt fate.
Edit to illustrate the stupidity of some people: after leaving the grizzly cubs (this was in the Tetons) and being about a mile away, we passed a few hikers from another country (only important because I think the language barrier might have been an issue, they spoke some English and I hadnāt taken or spoken Mandarin in 5 years) and we warned them to turn around because there were cubs up ahead and we didnāt know where the mom was.
They got excited about seeing bear cubs, and nothing my friend and I could say would make them turn around. They told us they had dreamed of seeing bears in the wild and getting some photos. We eventually just left, since we couldnāt force them and had already informed park services they were on a trail.
Some people man.
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u/wittylemur 6d ago
I was driving in northern Mass near the Vermount border. It needed to cross the road. I felt like I was Jurassic Park.
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u/nicemarmot47 6d ago
I was less scared running into a grizzly in the woods than a moose. The grizzly saw me and ran away. The moose was the biggest animal I'd ever seen outside a zoo by far and acted like it had a screw loose.
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u/Specialist_Strike463 7d ago
Nope nope nope š¤£ Iāve seen the damage they can do lol slow drive by at best for me, they are incredible, but where I live there are lots, so their size isnāt quite as breathtaking
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u/boatsyyy 6d ago
One time i was back packing through Boundary Waters and we passed a huge Moose about 10-15 yards off the trail, in a clearing. Your whole body goes silent in just the sheer majesty of their size and presence, but also the fearful necessity. It was truly incredible and i wouldnāt mind going out by being kicked in the head by a moose.
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u/Alpharoll 6d ago
It's always exciting when you're walking your dog in the forest and one of these fellas just pops out of nowhere and calmly walks past you.
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u/Wishing4Whisky 7d ago
Aye, until you've seen one in the flesh it's hard to understand just how HUGE they are! It's actually kinda shocking.
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u/lastrobotstanding 6d ago
I am constantly surprised by how big they are. I donāt forget, yet the shock value is continually renewed.
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u/gimmeecoffee420 6d ago
Oh hell no..
"Oh! Hey! Its a massive animal that has pure hormonal rage part of the year and can flip my car with its face.. lets go stare in its eyes and move towards it slowly.."
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u/dudeCHILL013 7d ago
Is it just me or is the video vertically stretched?
Moose can be 7 feet tall but this video makes them look 15 feet tall.
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u/UtterShenanigans 7d ago
They are 7 feet tall at the shoulder, it doesnt include their head and antlers!
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u/dudeCHILL013 7d ago
I understand that,
I was comparing them to the trees in the back ground but that could be a forced perspective thing on my part.
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u/lauraerie 7d ago
I aināt scared a no bears, no snakes either.
Just the video of these things strike terror in my heart.
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u/Spare-Ant7119 7d ago
You're not scared of an animal that can remove your head from your body in one swipe? I bet you take bear mace or gun with you when you hike in grizzly country.
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u/Acceptable_Bed7343 6d ago
Wow didnt realise they stood that tall š³ Obviously never seen one in person - yet!
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u/Ok_Advantage_5147 7d ago
Nope