The moose that shut down a highway for four hours
Traffic backed up for kilometres while one very calm animal refused to leave the passing lane.
It was, by every account, a slow news morning until a bull moose planted himself squarely on the highway and declined all suggestions to move along.
Officers arrived expecting a five-minute job. Four hours later, they were directing traffic around an animal that had decided the asphalt was warm and the view was fine.
The convoy of patient drivers
Drivers stuck in the queue turned it into an event, sharing coffee between cars and posting live updates that racked up more views than the region's tourism board manages in a year.
Wildlife officials eventually coaxed him off with a slow-moving vehicle escort, a technique they describe as ninety percent patience and ten percent luck.
No one was hurt, nothing was damaged and the highway reopened to a round of applause from row eleven.
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