Wow. encroach upon its habitat, then kill it for its confusion...yeah, let's do that.

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/living_with_moose.htm

There are 4 options available to wildlife professionals when dealing with suburban or urban moose situations.

1. Keeping tabs on the animal from a distance, or "baby-sitting" as it is sometimes called, is often all that is needed to allow the moose to move on. Usually the job becomes more public relations than public safety as officers try to keep people away from the moose.
2. Trying to encourage the moose to go in a specific direction by using hazing techniques.
3. If the animal becomes cornered and can be confined to an area, chemical immobilants may be used if the situation warrants this action. Trained staff from MassWildlife and/or the Environmental Police will be on hand to exercise this option.
4. The last resort, when an immediate threat to public safety exists, is to destroy the moose with a firearm.

So basically killing it is the last possible resort.

Anyone else kind of believe that the moose wasn't charging people over there in Green Island?

thats crap..not sure why they could not tranquilize it and then transport it somewhere.

Updated version of the article:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080930/NEWS/809300299/1116

The moose was about 2 years old, weighed 900 pounds and was in rut, which can cause aggressive behavior, according to Lisa Capone, spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Environmental and state police decided to shoot the moose because of his proximity to Interstate 290 and Route 146 and because he was headed downtown, she said.

[...]

Chris Hall, a Castle Metals employee, was outside smoking a cigarette a few minutes after the incident. She said she had just pulled into the company’s parking lot this morning when she saw the moose come running out of the building and jump the fence. She said the moose was calm once it was contained in the fenced-in yard for about five or six minutes until a man driving by in a contracting truck pulled over and started harassing the moose.

“I’m still furious,” Ms. Hall said. “The guy was whistling, yelling and freaking him out.”

Ms. Hall said she was angry the moose could not be subdued, contained or tranquilized instead of being put down.

I am not defending this--I am a big moose lover. But they are big animals, and I'm not surprised that law enforcement would kill a moose in this situation.

That's not what I heard.

hehehe

this post makes me think of the mythbuster episode when they try to determine if its better to slow down or speed up before hitting a moose...

http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9401967776/m/7101996469/p/1

I hope the Armsby gets some good size pieces of this bitch and has mooseburgers smothered in three different cheeses or something because, Worcester moose are local moose and local moose are shot.

Maybe Ralph's will get a second Moose head for the downstairs bar.

seriously, would you eat fresh road kill?

I've never seen or heard of anyone seeing a moose in Ma too bad the first story I heard was of a dead one.

Yep, the "I (heart) Piedmont" sticker came from Worcester Common Ground.

They did not tranqualize him because if a hunter later killed him and ate him, he may have been poisoned.
Talk about a bum deal for the moose.

Way to make this thread political and negative...

...does that mean you are an Obama supporter?

No media bias, Joe. If you don't vote for Obama, you're a racist. Get with it.

By the way, on the amazon page for that book there is a conversation going on about how Matt Drudge used a photo of Gwen above her headline....and get this, because he put a picture of a black woman on his page, he's a racist.

Welcome to the Obama future. If you don't talk the talk, you're a racist and deserve to die.

edit: By the way, what did they do with the moose after they murdered it?

I had to go look for the Ifill story, I was unaware of that.
Wow, that's just about the most blatant example of how the media is in the tank for Obama that I've ever seen. The unmitigated hatred of Sarah Palin was bad enough, but Gwen takes the cake with her lickspittle insipidity.
Oh well, if Americans want a dumber version of Deval Patrick as their President, I guess there's nothing thinking people can do about it.

This thread was already negative it dealt with the needless killing of a moose. Seems negative enough for me. It is bad enough they only come down to the city because their own homes in the Northern Woods are being wiped away by us fools., we then have to go and shoot it. Foolish