Maine event: 'A moose fell from the sky'



It wasn't your typical morning commute today for one motorist in Clinton, Maine, according to assistant town clerk Shirley Bailey, who answered the phone a little after 8 a.m.

"I was driving under the bridge on Hinckley Road and a moose fell from the sky," the driver told Bailey, who described the unidentified man as "a little shook up."

"It was quite frightening, I guess," she told the Kennebec Journal.

The 500-pound yearling bull moose fell 18 feet to its death when it apparently became spooked by traffic on an Interstate 95 overpass and leaped a guardrail, police said.

A passing tow truck hauled the carcass away, the AP adds.