I like how they're all speaking the bastardised version of French that the Colonials speak, and then the moose charges past them and the only possible response is the Queen's English "holy shit".
I mean, consider the way that neurotoxic poison binds with body fats, and keeps releasing even years later, causing pain and convulsions, not to mention vivid hallucinations.
Of course, that's just the European specimen of moose; based on all accounts and clinical testing, North American moose is way worse. I think we can just count our blessings that a herd did not swim to Australia millions of years ago and became a part of toxicity race.
I don't know if this happens there, but this one guy in the moose patrol, he told me that even if you decapitate it, the head is still capable of reflexive spitting and antler release. Some poor sap thought that he had managed to finish the moose with a well-placed shot to heart and couple of axe whacks, leaned down to inspect the dead moose, and BAM, face full of frothy, steamy poison. The stench was incredible, his screams even worse, and it was only after he had rolled in snow that the actual cause was revealed: half of his face had dissolved from this so-called "moose death venom".
And just to make things worse, y'know? They never found the head. They had turned their backs to it for like couple of minutes to treat the guy, and the head was gone. The body was there, yeah, but all they could see was a ragged green line of moose blood, which then ended up abruptly.
The moose patrol dude wasn't happy when I pointed out that there are folkloristic mentions of moosenlagganan, which is an undead, decapitated moose head flying and dragging its stomach and esophagus behind, as it searches for prey. He did say that it would explain some... things... he has seen, though. Vile, shuddersome things.
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Date: 2014-05-21 07:57 pm (UTC)(A moment of silence for the fallen moose-victim. May it have been a quick, relatively painless death.)
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Date: 2014-05-21 08:34 pm (UTC)The gif is a bit sped up, but it's still moving damn fast.
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Date: 2014-05-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-21 08:58 pm (UTC)-- Steve finds the moose problem to be an insidious one.
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Date: 2014-05-21 08:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-22 12:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-22 01:05 am (UTC)Two humans foolishly wander into territory of a moose, lose.
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Date: 2014-05-22 01:44 am (UTC)He'll be ok, He'll be ok.
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Date: 2014-05-22 08:54 am (UTC)I mean, consider the way that neurotoxic poison binds with body fats, and keeps releasing even years later, causing pain and convulsions, not to mention vivid hallucinations.
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Date: 2014-05-22 04:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-22 05:58 pm (UTC)Of course, that's just the European specimen of moose; based on all accounts and clinical testing, North American moose is way worse. I think we can just count our blessings that a herd did not swim to Australia millions of years ago and became a part of toxicity race.
I don't know if this happens there, but this one guy in the moose patrol, he told me that even if you decapitate it, the head is still capable of reflexive spitting and antler release. Some poor sap thought that he had managed to finish the moose with a well-placed shot to heart and couple of axe whacks, leaned down to inspect the dead moose, and BAM, face full of frothy, steamy poison. The stench was incredible, his screams even worse, and it was only after he had rolled in snow that the actual cause was revealed: half of his face had dissolved from this so-called "moose death venom".
And just to make things worse, y'know? They never found the head. They had turned their backs to it for like couple of minutes to treat the guy, and the head was gone. The body was there, yeah, but all they could see was a ragged green line of moose blood, which then ended up abruptly.
The moose patrol dude wasn't happy when I pointed out that there are folkloristic mentions of moosenlagganan, which is an undead, decapitated moose head flying and dragging its stomach and esophagus behind, as it searches for prey. He did say that it would explain some... things... he has seen, though. Vile, shuddersome things.
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:01 pm (UTC)-The Gneech