Some hunt their moose with guns or bows, but the guys at Alaska's City Electric just need a good length of electric power line.

A work crew had been setting up power lines using that new-fangled technology that allows them to lay up to five miles of cable before tightening it with an hydraulic winch. While tightening the line, they realized something was amiss and backtracked along their route to the source of the problem, which is when they found a bull moose dangling by its antlers some 50 feet in the air.

The most accepted of the theories being bandied about is that the moose came across the lines and challenged them to a fight, as moose are wont to do during mating season.

Though brought down alive, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game thought it best to kill him, fearing tranquilizing him long enough to untangle the antlers would leave him dead as well as inedible.

» Scott Saxon