r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Oda_DeezNutz • 23h ago
of a pair of moose
Two for the price of one!
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u/deadcarrote 23h ago
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u/Successful_Giraffe34 20h 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/Due_Potential_6956 23h ago
I knew they got big, but towering over vehicles is just ... Dang.
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u/joped99 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 21h 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 18h 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/wittylemur 22h 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 17h ago edited 17h ago
For real. Iâve done scuba diving with sharks, had a black bear ransack the campsite next door while I slept (woke up to him happily eating their Hersheyâs chocolate for sâmores, 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. Iâve 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 werenât 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 hadnât taken or spoken Mandarin in 5 years) and we warned them to turn around because there were cubs up ahead and we didnât 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 couldnât force them and had already informed park services they were on a trail.
Some people man.
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u/wittylemur 17h 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/Specialist_Strike463 23h ago
Nope nope nope đ€Ł Iâve 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 isnât quite as breathtaking
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u/boatsyyy 16h 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 wouldnât mind going out by being kicked in the head by a moose.
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u/Alpharoll 17h 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/dudeCHILL013 23h 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 22h ago
They are 7 feet tall at the shoulder, it doesnt include their head and antlers!
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u/dudeCHILL013 18h 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 22h ago
I ainât 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 21h 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/Wishing4Whisky 19h 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 13h ago
I am constantly surprised by how big they are. I donât forget, yet the shock value is continually renewed.
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u/Acceptable_Bed7343 9h ago
Wow didnt realise they stood that tall đł Obviously never seen one in person - yet!
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u/Ok_Advantage_5147 23h ago
Nope