Motorist: 500-pound moose 'fell out of the sky'

Tue May 12, 2009 3:59 PM EDT

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CLINTON — Police said 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 passerby with a wrecker hauled away the carcass.

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JoulesBeef

heard of it rainign cats and dogs but when it starts to rain moose.. it is time to get the heck out of dodge

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#1 - Tue May 12, 2009 4:32 PM EDT

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njb

No kidding. Not something that happens everyday eh?

I'm glad the caller was uninjured, but had he not seen the moose? Good grief, his obit would have read like something out of the "Blue Collar Comedy" tour....

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#2 - Tue May 12, 2009 4:43 PM EDT

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xipotec

Didn't the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" show start out with them falling from the sky?

Did someone check the road for a squirrel?

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#3 - Tue May 12, 2009 6:03 PM EDT

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LPN-KS

Maybe he thought he was one of Santa's reindeer and tried to fly. or This was lover's leap for moose.

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#4 - Tue May 12, 2009 6:06 PM EDT

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Mark Stevenson

Apparently, this is a popular moose pastime: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23135666/

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#5 - Tue May 12, 2009 6:38 PM EDT

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Nofluer

Picture the assistant town clerk.

(Ring, ring.)

"Clinton City Hall, clerk speaking. How may we help you?"

"I'm at I 95 and Hinkley Road and a moose just fell out of the sky!!!"

{pause}

"Hello? I said a moose just fell out of the sky!"

"Hello? Anyone there?"

Uhhh Yes sir. You say you're on Hinkley at I 95?"

"Yeah - Did you get the part about the moose?"

"Oh, yes, sir I certainly did. We'll have an officer out there shortly. You just stay put... and stay in your car. It wouldn't do to have you wandering around, now."

(Clerk calls cops) "Charley? Shirley. Got a good one for ya. Just got a call... seems this fellah's out on Hinkley at I 95. Says it's raining moose out there. ... Yeah. Said a moose just fell out of the sky. ... Uh huh. I'll get you some back-up started. Uh huh. G'bye - Oh, and Charley? Make sure you take an umbrella. 'K? Bye."

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#6 - Tue May 12, 2009 8:42 PM EDT

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Susan-649485

My mother once was driving along a country road and a deer fell out of the sky and landed right on top of her car.

I guess the deer had been running up the hill my mom was driving on and the deer landed on my mom's car as it jumped over the guard rail. Apparently, if my mom had been driving in the lane closest to the guard rail, it might have just sailed right over her.

I can only imagine the surprise she must have felt when the deer landed on top of her car.

LOL. She said she was watching the road for deer. She didn't know she had to watch the sky.

At least it wasn't a moose.

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#7 - Wed May 13, 2009 10:37 AM EDT

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