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http://www.alaskamagazine.com/stories/0205/ktob_trophy.shtml

A trophy-sized bull moose was accidentally strung up by a power line under construction in a remote area southeast of Fairbanks this fall, a mishap that left the ungulate dangling by its antlers some 50 feet in the air. Photos of the animal swinging in the Interior breeze circulated on the Internet and the incident was generally dismissed as a hoax. Strangely enough, it wasn?t.

The photos were real, the documentation of a bizarre set of circumstances. The moose?well into the rut, or mating season?apparently got his antlers tangled up after ?challenging? the wire to a fight. The wire was later hoisted to the top of the pole by a powerful winch run by crews farther up the line.

Moose have been known to tangle swings, clotheslines and Christmas lights in their antlers, but being ensnared in power line?and lifted into the air?was unprecedented.

?It?s just an unbelievable story,? Gabriel Marian, president of City Electric Inc., the contractor that erected the power line, told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. ?The only unfortunate part is that we had to shoot the moose.? City Electric was building a power line to the Teck Pogo gold mine.

Crews didn?t know the moose was tangled in the line until they tightened it, Marian told the News-Miner, adding that the moose?a 1,200-pound animal with a reported antler spread of 62 inches?was probably suspended in the air for only a few minutes.

After it was lowered, Marian said workers did all they could to free the animal, but the moose was thrashing about and posed a threat to anyone who approached. Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game recommended that the animal be killed, and the meat was donated to a local resident.
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