A moose on the loose in the Collar City has eluded capture – other than being captured on videotape, that is. What's a Collar City, you ask? That would be Troy, New York, once home to a booming trade in removable collars and cuffs for men's shirts (they were invented there, in point of fact). Alas, the collar factories are all gone, but the moose are moving in.
It's certainly something you don't see everyday as a moose takes a stroll through downtown Troy.
His trek was captured by a surveillance camera at the Valero gas station on Hoosick Street.
The owner said a customer told him about the moose, and that's when he checked the tapes.
Meanwhile, a bit farther to the East in Maine, three men in two different cars hit two different moose at the same spot, all at the same time. Or in rapid succession.
SCARBOROUGH (AP) -Three men escaped serious injury Tuesday when the two cars they were in struck two moose on the Maine Turnpike, police said.
The accidents occurred after 1 a.m. in the southbound lane near the Scarborough-Saco town line.
When the first car struck the moose, the animal crashed through the windshield before coming to a rest on the highway, according to Maine State Police. The second car then struck the other moose before running over the remains of the first one.
Police said the three men were injured, but not seriously. Their names were not immediately available.
The last item in today's moose trifecta is no laughing matter. A Vermont man was killed when his car struck a moose.
MONTPELIER – A Barre resident died Tuesday in an early morning accident when his vehicle hit a moose and then smashed into ledges near the Montpelier exit on I-89.
State police said the accident claimed the life of Glenn G. Isham, who was driving his 2006 Subaru Impreza southbound in the passing lane when he struck the moose, according to trooper Daniel Schneider from the Middlesex barracks.
Schneider said the collision a few minutes before 1 a.m. caused Isham's vehicle to cross the median, both lanes of the northbound interstate, and then smash head-on into the cliffs on the eastern part of the road.
The vehicle sustained heavy damage from the accident, including the roof being peeled back from the collision with the moose, Schneider said.
One that note, it's a good time to warn people that moose and deer are on the move at this time of year. Hitting a deer with your car is bad, hitting a moose is potentially lethal. They tend to come right in through the windshield.
Meanwhile, a bit farther to the East in Maine, three men in two different cars hit two different moose at the same spot, all at the same time. Or in rapid succession.
SCARBOROUGH (AP) -Three men escaped serious injury Tuesday when the two cars they were in struck two moose on the Maine Turnpike, police said.
The accidents occurred after 1 a.m. in the southbound lane near the Scarborough-Saco town line.
When the first car struck the moose, the animal crashed through the windshield before coming to a rest on the highway, according to Maine State Police. The second car then struck the other moose before running over the remains of the first one.
Police said the three men were injured, but not seriously. Their names were not immediately available.
The last item in today's moose trifecta is no laughing matter. A Vermont man was killed when his car struck a moose.
MONTPELIER – A Barre resident died Tuesday in an early morning accident when his vehicle hit a moose and then smashed into ledges near the Montpelier exit on I-89.
State police said the accident claimed the life of Glenn G. Isham, who was driving his 2006 Subaru Impreza southbound in the passing lane when he struck the moose, according to trooper Daniel Schneider from the Middlesex barracks.
Schneider said the collision a few minutes before 1 a.m. caused Isham's vehicle to cross the median, both lanes of the northbound interstate, and then smash head-on into the cliffs on the eastern part of the road.
The vehicle sustained heavy damage from the accident, including the roof being peeled back from the collision with the moose, Schneider said.
One that note, it's a good time to warn people that moose and deer are on the move at this time of year. Hitting a deer with your car is bad, hitting a moose is potentially lethal. They tend to come right in through the windshield.
