Mostly I'm amazed that so many people can fatally hit a gigantic animal like a moose and still be able to drive away.

So one upon a time in Saudi Arabia...

During Desert Shield/Storm, I spent a lot of time on the Saudi/Iraq DMZ. There is a military highway that runs along there. One day while running between camps, we see this supercar - a Lamborghini, Ferrari or some such - with the roof completely gone, blood & guts everywhere. There was a big pile of leftover camel a little bit behind the wreckage.

Turns out one of the many local "princes" was out the day before joy riding in a light sand storm when he came across a camel. One of the local Bedouins we dealt with explained that because their legs are so spindly, the second you hit them the essentially rotate in mid-air and completely decapitate anything in the path of their torso. So car, driver, any passengers.

Fun fact - in Saudi - at least once upon a time - if you hit a camel in daytime it is your fault no matter what. At night, it is the owner's fault for not properly securing/protecting them.

Thanks for reminding me how much I hate those fucking things. Also that is not angry - that is pretty much how those fuckfaces are all the time.

One of my professors in law school had been the head of legal operations in Desert Storm. He complained about being intimately knowledgeable of the cost of camels and how to haggle over their value because of all the fucktards who took pot shots at them for fun.

+1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail

A møøse once bit my sister...

No, realli?

If the purpose is to ensure that the meat doesn't go to waste, it sounds like mission achieved.

What if it's ISIS terrorist cells operating along the Canadian border, securing the roadkill meat that belongs to the freedom-loving poor of Alaska?

Would moose meat be considered Halal?

Moose is halal (permitted) but must be Zabihah - slaughtered according to Islamic Rites - in order to be suitable for consumption.

Roadkill of any kind is haram (forbidden).

I figure they'd be considered martyrs and honored for their contribution to the cause.

I wonder what the cost per kilo of salvaged moosemeat comes out to when you pay someone to drive probably hundreds of miles to the middle of nowhere to pick it up, and then drive hundreds more miles somewhere else to deliver it to "qualifying" Alaskans.

Probably less expensive to just pay people in meat vouchers at the local supermarket.

Last winter I hit a large buck deer. He charged across the the two lanes of traffic, a wide median, then another lane to plough into the driver's side headlight of my car. Then he was just gone... What seemed like several seconds later, he suddenly dropped from who knows how high right onto my rear windshield filling the car with a shotgun blast of pea sized glass projectiles. It was the second impact that scared the bejesus out of me. Poor dude.

The county animal control guys had to come put him out of his misery. I just couldn't bring myself to run over him or bash in his skull with a tire iron, which would have been more humane than making him wait half an hour in what must have been horrible pain.