Week 10-English Language Foreign Newspaper Article

Found this little gem in the "Aftenposten", a Norwegian newspaper.

This picture is one I found on the web, the article unfortunately did not have a photo





Moose surfed on chunk of ice
A fully grown moose was spotted surfing down a rain-swollen river in Norway early this week, riding on a large chunk of ice. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1211001.ece

A Norwegian man happened to look out of his kitchen window at a rain/snowmelt swollen river and to his astonishment saw a moose standing on a block of ice "surfing" down the rushing waters. He said the ice was clear, so that the animal looked as if it was walking on the water! He jumped in his vehicle and drove down to a nearby bridge in time to see the animal tumble into the water. The man added that he saw the moose successfully scramble up the riverbank and walk away.

It really is a terrible shame that the man was not able to get a picture of the poor animal, surfing moose are very rare, ( !) and it is possible many people would not believe him. I wonder how they checked out his story?