My home town
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@Chap Moose are one of the worlds most dangerous animals if they feel threatened by humans.
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Beautiful!
Side note: also love those black tile roofs!
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@Chap Moose are one of the worlds most dangerous animals if they feel threatened by humans.
I see… their sheer size alone makes them dangerous. But I thought they would flee like deer when humans appear. My father worked in the automotive industry and was many times in northern parts of sweden where the winter testing grounds are... he was always adviced to drive very carefully up there not to have an accident with a moose.
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Up in the Great White North, if you hit a moose with your car, your car is done and you will sustain some injuries, but the moose will likely walk away fine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_test
https://mercedesblog.com/20-years-since-mercedes-a-class-elch-test-scandal/
I know
my father worked for Svenska Kullagerfabriken and Volvocars during that time and laughed a lot about the moose test failure with the Mercedes -
Awesome way to start the day @neph93 almost thought The_Bourbon_Denim_Guy/denim_rambler (whatever his forum handle is
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in perth, we have this amongst many more. i've never seen this sign in it's intended way, just saying.. i believe they kinda gave up on fixing it..
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@Chap Moose are one of the worlds most dangerous animals if they feel threatened by humans.
I see… their sheer size alone makes them dangerous. But I thought they would flee like deer when humans appear. My father worked in the automotive industry and was many times in northern parts of sweden where the winter testing grounds are... he was always adviced to drive very carefully up there not to have an accident with a moose.
They can be quite surly.
Difficult to see on the road they're so tall that the legs are at eye level and you get 1200lbs. of moose in the face. ??? -
Moose crashes are a serious problem. On our 2000km round trip through Norway this summer I saw three elk in stretches of road that are windy and have a 80-90km/h speed limit. Luckily didn’t meet one on a bend. However we did come upon a elk that had been clipped by a car and had to wait in a queue for an hour while a vet came out to put it down and remove it.
As for their attitudes to humans the males just walk around like they own the place and don’t give a fekk. Mothers with their calves are the problem though, which was why this morning was tricky. Some of my idiot neighbours came out of their houses to take pics and boxed them in. The mother got super stressed and charged a woman but broke it off when the woman legged it.
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In my town Rochdale… something every day is happening here.
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typical northern day innit
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Interesting that that old Citroen has the record for the test, beating 911RS etc. Shows how much grip in sudden changes of direction a softly sprung car can have…
In my neighbourhood a Honda Jazz had it Catalyst 'recycled' last night..
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A friend sent me a document of how the 2nd world war affected Royal Clarence Yard, the former Royal Navy Victualling Yard, where we live. We live in the Superintendent's House….
Wow. So much cool stuff associated with that house. Though I suppose nearly getting blown up is only cool 70 years after the fact. More like terrifying at the time…
bloody joke... :o
