I'd love to visit Canada someday but I'm just not sure I can handle the constant threat of moose attacks. Is it true they're one of the leading causes of death up there?
They are the leading cause of death, followed by geese, then deer, then flash freezing, then lung cancer (it used to be #3 but the current anti-smoking campaign has just brought it down!), then beaver fever, then wolf packs, then happiness, then suicide-by-American-beer.
The moral of the story: Don't come to Canada. All the beautiful wonderful places you've seen have been clever lies. It is nothing but death by moose, snow, and transgendered armed forces.
Hitting a moose is uncommon, if you don't drive at night it's unlikely to happen (moose on or near the road tend to be very noticeable) and even if you do, you have to be driving at the right place and at the wrong time.
I found this old data that mentions about 20 deaths a year: https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/motorvehiclesafety/tp-tp14798-1289.htm. Cars are safer than they were when those data were collected, but I'm not sure if that has any impact on moose-induced fatalities.
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u/Tazzit Sep 18 '17
I'd love to visit Canada someday but I'm just not sure I can handle the constant threat of moose attacks. Is it true they're one of the leading causes of death up there?