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Moose jumps over guardrail, falls to death

Moose jumps over guardrail, falls to death on I-95 below

Motorist in Maine says moose ‘fell out of the sky’

CLINTON, Maine — Police in Clinton say a 500-pound moose fell 18 feet to its death when it apparently leaped a guardrail on an Interstate 95 overpass and landed on Hinckley Road.

Officials learned of the incident when a motorist called the town office shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday and told Assistant Town Clerk Shirley Bailey that “a moose just fell out of the sky.”

Bailey said the driver, who was under the bridge when he spotted the falling moose, was “pretty excited about it.”

Police Chief Charles Runnels said the yearling bull probably panicked because of the noise and traffic along I-95 and began running. He said it just picked the wrong spot to jump the guardrail, falling onto a road instead of landing in a field.

A passer-by with a wrecker hauled away the carcass.

How much you wanna bet the "passer-by" is totally gonna eat that moose?

Nexa

Well that's one of the best ways to get a moose if you don't have a hunters' license or its out of hunting season, right? If an animal dies of natural causes (ie, you aren't responsible for killing it), if you can haul it away you get to keep it. That's how it worked in Delaware at least. Those were usually deer people got like that, though, not moose.

In Delaware, the same rule applies to people from Kent County.