Tourist In Breckenridge, Colorado Nearly Pays The Price After Trying To Guide Moose Across The Street

It’s always best to just leave the moose be.

If I’ve learned anything perusing internet videos that focus on the outdoors, it’s that morons and wildlife don’t mix. Fortunately, a lot of encounters end up being harmless, and just make for scary-but-funny, what-not-to-do examples of humans and wild animals coexisting.

This older video out of Breckenridge, Colorado involving a moose and a “touron” (that’s a tourist that’s a moron) is exactly that.

In case you didn’t know, moose are the largest of all deer in the deer family, and their height and weight might surprise you. Male moose are typically bigger than females, with bulls usually standing at 6 feet tall at their shoulders and weighing up to 1,400 pounds. There’s no other way to put it… they are absolutely massive.

The one in this clip that was wandering around the popular skiing spot was definitely up there in size, and if this person was in their right mind, they wouldn’t have ever considered messing with it. The National Park Service – as well as basic common sense – advises tourists to stay at least 25 yards away (50 is especially safe) from moose.

So considering that guidance, you can basically watch this video below and know that this person is doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing.

The moose that had wandered into Breckenridge was attempting to cross a snow-covered road, and this tourist single-handedly decided that they needed to act as a crossing guard. They took matters into their own hands and tried to help escort the moose across the street. It may have seemed as though they had things under control initially, but then they got cocky, and took things a bit too far.

After the wild animal and the tourist made it to the other side of the road, the Colorado visitor should have parted way with the moose. Instead, they decided to continue walking towards the animal in an attempt to guide it away. The moose wasn’t a fan of that, and whipped around and set its sights on the tourist.

Once the person turned their back to the wild animal, the moose charged and started throwing hooves.

It was then that the person knew that they didn’t have the “magical moose touch,” and they are very fortunate that the moose’s punches didn’t land. After a couple of errant, flying hooves, the wild animal pulled up and allowed for the Colorado tourist to walk away. The situation could have turned into quite the ugly brawl (one that the moose would have easily won), but instead, it just offered up what is basically a what-not-to-do-around-moose instructional video.

Shoutout to “Tourons of National Parks” for posting it and teaching everyone that moose are nothing to be messed with:

“A touron in Breckenridge, Colorado who mistakenly thought she was the moose whisperer.”

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