Campers in Burgess Junction, Wyoming were fortunate to have discovered the latest plot by the Animal Uprising™ to snag innocent humans. In yet another case of volleyball good really, really bad, they discovered a moose attempting to disguise himself as a volleyball net and called the authorities.
They say love is blind, even for an apparently frisky moose temporarily rendered sightless by a volleyball net.
Seems a wayward 2- to 3-year-old bull moose leaving his scent near Burgess Junction in the Big Horn Mountains on Labor Day got entangled in a volleyball net from a nearby campground, prompting worried campers to call in the services of two game wardens to help the moose see the light.
Turns out, the work of warden Tim Thomas and partner Alan Osterland was a net gain for everyone involved.
The moose apparently got the net entangled in its mature antlers and over its eyes, practically blindfolding the 800-pound beast in the process.
Thomas believes the moose was probably trying to leave its scent on a pole containing the volleyball net, as this is the time when a moose's libido is high.
After arriving on the scene that included a handful of onlookers near Prune Creek, Thomas and Osterland took their positions behind and in front of the moose, respectively.
Thomas fired a dart into the moose's left hip. Once the big boy fell, Thomas and Osterland took to cutting off the net and administering antibiotics.
According to the report, Thomas has seen this sort of thing before – and even worse. A deer disguised as a Christmas tree, for example. The article does not include photographs, but it must have looked something like this.
