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Unusual deadly accident locally Sunday.
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While snowmobiling a 51 year man hit about a 600 lb bull moose and was killed. Apparently the sled rode under the moose's belly as the moose was killed also and his belly sliced open. Only damage to the sled was a broken windshield. I believe this is the first moose snowmobile accident in Maine. If not the first it was the first time a person on a sled was killed by a moose. Moose have been known to attack and chase snowmobilers. Accident happened about 6 to 8 miles from where I live.
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Wish I never Saw A Snowmobile.
What You Do Early in Life Will Haunt you big time Later...
Kids Don't beleive Me They Will After I'm Dead and Gone.....
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had one just north of here...7 year old boy opening gate & runs back to tractor..grandad didn't see him... hate it when bad things happen to kids
Happens more often than I like to think about. I've seen several kids in the ER that where injured trying to run to dad on a tractor, lawn mower etc. and have heard about many more. A lot more of these than firearms accidents.
Not a great way to go, but I suppose it's quick.
Thankfully, it decided I wasn't worth the effort and it trotted off... only for me to encounter him on the skid road one more time!
Dang, I need to apply for a moose tag!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Had a guy I knew lose his head to a barbwire fence up in WY as a kid.
He was never the same after that![:D]
Seriously though, his buddy almost hit the same fence because the guy didn't even slow down. Said he thought something knocked his buddy's helmet off, but then saw the top of a post and bailed off his sled before hitting the fence. The headless sledman continued on for quite a ways I guess before tipping over.
Glad I wasn't there to witness it!!
FCD
Yeah, your posting reminded me of a situation in the semi-rural burbs if Anchorage years ago.
While driving a road in the "Foothill" area I noticed this guy stringing wire out front of his place. He was bitching about the "gd punks, twits, and AH" running three wheelers and quads all summer and snomobiles all winter off pavement along side of the road in front of his place.
Remember offering him the opinion that it was right of way for the road, etc. He was probably in the wrong legally and definitely ethically and he would end up killing or maiming someone at the least. I shared the fact that he could be bought-up on homicide charges.
He was rather verbally and physically intimedating and even more opinionated than I. He shared that he didn't give a rat's * for those g-damned punks, etc. and didn't care if he found the whole bunch of them stacked like cord wood in front of his place in the AM.
What had first caught my attention was the fact that he was in a rather heated confrontation with a woman. His wife was attempting to stand her ground against him, attempting to reason with him arguing with him in like manner to me ... didn't make me feel any more comfortable about things in general or the situation in particular.
I had suggested that he might want to consider what he might think and feel about anyone endangering one of his kids in like manner. His response was that he'd kill his kid if they drove around like that! I believed him ...
He also said that he'd kill anyone that harmed his kids. Seemed that was his answer for any and all things ... "kill em".
Well, he got what he intended ... a young boy came by shortly afterwards ... decapitated him.
Tragedy happens in an instant at high speed.
One of my freinds had a new fishing pole that could cast like crazy. I tried it and snagged the line on an exposed tree root all the way across the river.
We decided it would be a good trap for the disrespectful boaters. So we stretched it out and tied it off to stump on our side of the river.
Well luckily, the first boat to hit it stretched the line out so much that there was an audible whine and then a snap when the line popped. You could hear it over the engine noise.
We got some dirty looks and the fun was over.
The next boat to come by had a teenage girl sitting on the bow of a john boat with her legs dangling in the water. Man if that fishing line had been there it would have cut her legs off at the knees.
We sobered up pretty quick.
There was a farmer named John who collected guns(bought up my brother's mainly cap and ball collection) and who I walked beans for.
Well, one day Ron's wife and his infant child decided to drive to town. She dropped in on Gail's mom who went along, along with Gail and little sister Susan(5).
On the way home they somehow veered into a concrete bridge covering a culvert. Ron's wife, the infant, Gail, and Gail's mother were killed instantly. Little Susan survived but had had so many * bones broken that she never looked or acted quite right again.
So Ron lost his whole family.
Gail's dad minus his wife and Gail had only Susan and a twelve year old son(Mark) remaining.
In less than 6 months Mark was dead due to a tractor turning over on him while mowing ditches.
I don't know what happened to Gail's dad eventually, but his life just had to have been as close to hell as it gets here on earth.