Who goosed a moose!
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Wired moose
By TIM MOWRY, Staff Writer
It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a bull moose hanging by its
antlers from an electrical power line in the middle of the Alaska
wilderness.
In one of those only-in-Alaska stories that will shock even the
sourest of sourdoughs, a trophy-sized bull moose was accidentally
strung up in a power line under construction to the Teck Pogo gold
mine southeast of Fairbanks. The moose apparently got its antlers
tangled in electrical wire before workers farther down the line pulled
the line tight about two weeks ago.
The moose was suspended 50 feet in the air when workers, recognizing
something was wrong, backtracked and found it.
The moose was alive when it was lowered to the ground but was later
killed when officials from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
decided against tranquilizing it to remove the wires because they were
worried the moose, already stressed, would die and the meat would not
be salvageable as a result of the dr <snip>
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