Seal lost and found

Nov 10, 2024 10:31:06

My son up in Nunavut just sent me this posting: there's a seal in the middle of the road

I had a good chuckle

Nov 10, 2024 11:46:37

Would it be better or worse to hit a seal with one's car than a deer? Being on an Island, our deer are smaller than mainland deer, so we tend to loose the deer but not the driver.

This is an experiment I would not like to attempt - my 20 yr old car is almost geriatric by car standards, so if it got damaged, it would be hard to get parts.

Nov 10, 2024 12:16:03

I hope some kind person will contact parks and wildlife or whatever it is called there to move the seal before someone runs over it.

Nov 10, 2024 14:14:05

Iqaluit's population is about 7.5 thousand. I am quite sure the seal got moved fairly quickly.

Recently a jumbo passenger jet had to make an emergency landing there on its way to New York. The passengers were pretty concerned about the "lack of facilities". The Canadian Gov't had to get some quick permission to let our military evacuate all the passengers on a military personnel carrier and deliver them to New York. Iqaluit would have had to do some quick igloo building to house a jumbo jet's worth of new people!

Nov 10, 2024 22:29:00

Jay Angler wrote:
. Iqaluit would have had to do some quick igloo building to house a jumbo jet's worth of new people!

That's for sure with the housing crisis!

You go to iqaluit and if you're short, suddenly you are of average height so
There was a joke going around that says, being short is good: not only can you time share on a couch, but also on a loveseat !

Nov 10, 2024 22:34:06

Anne Miller wrote:I hope some kind person will contact parks and wildlife or whatever it is called there to move the seal before someone runs over it.

Yes, we wouldn't want to hurt any drivers 🤣

But seriously it's dead for sure -- the hospital is in land and up hill from the beach.
It probably fell off the back of a pickup truck, being it's on the road (as opposed to the various other forms of transportation)

Nov 10, 2024 22:35:59

Joking about this with a resident, he proposed: what was the seal thinking? And the supposition was it was on crack and was trying to get to the hospital 😂

Nov 11, 2024 00:18:56

There used to be a seal that regularly sunbathed on the roads near the harbour in Dunedin.

Sadly, he took a nap on the railway track and got killed.

He was regularly featured in the local paper https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/rude-awakening-sunbathing-seal

Nov 12, 2024 00:51:35

Okay, so I live in Maine where we have only a few famous things:

Steven King
Samantha Smith
Victoria Rowell

and...

Andre the Seal.

When I was a kid Andre was this seal living in Rockport Maine and was so famous they made a movie about him. I saw him once while on a harbor tour, but that was years ago.

Not to get off track, but those stupid deer things you can put on your car to warn off deer do really work. They are not 100% foolproof, but for $5 they are very cheap insurance and greatly decrease the odds of hitting a deer. I put 2 sets on my cars and its rare I even see a deer anymore much less hit one. If $10 will saveme from having to buy a $10,000 car, I call it worth it.

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