Date:         Wed, 1 May 1996 13:06:48 -0900
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From:         rsthj@aurora.alaska.edu (Thomas Johnson)
Subject:      re: Moose  -Reply

>
>one time is was driving north in my Honda CRX (cruis'n speed ~ 140kph),
>and i came around one corner in the middle of the night and there where
>5-6 of them in the middle of the road, licking salt - i had the
>wheels locked, everyone screaming, just missed them...
>then, after i got my hands pryed off of the steering wheel, i thought, 
>gee, if i didn't slow down, i would take out them spindly legs and be far 
>beyond the mass of the moose before it hit the ground, hitting them as 
>slow speed in my CRX would result in the mass of the moose flopping 
>on my head!!!
>didn't have a chance to test my theory.


A friend of mine did have the chance to test this theory--in a '67 bug. 
She took out the legs and it floped down on the roof with remarkably little
damage.

Every year at the beginning of moose hitting season the local paper runs
their "Give a moose a brake" ad.  It is a picture of a chevyish van with a
moose laying across the front seats and all four legs sticking out the
front window.  
Not a survivable accicent.

-Tom