{"id":796516,"date":"2026-10-09T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796516\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:14:10","slug":"montana-community-is-stunned-to-find-1000-pound-animal-stuck-in-skate-park-half-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796516\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Community Is Stunned To Find 1,000-Pound Animal Stuck In Skate Park Half Pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, community members in Red Lodge, Montana, did a double take when they saw someone huge patronizing their local skate park.<\/p>\n

The unlikely skater wasn\u2019t a skater at all. He was an adult bull moose \u2014 and he needed help.<\/p>\n

According to Cowboy State Daily<\/a>, the moose fell into Hellroaring Skate Park\u2019s halfpipe around 10 a.m. on September 7. Unable to maneuver the steep concrete walls, the anxious animal wandered the bowl, hopelessly stuck.<\/p>\n

Moose and bear sightings are increasingly common<\/a> in Red Lodge, a community situated near many federal wilderness areas and national parks, though the animals rarely end up in situations like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For hours, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks<\/a> staff and local police surrounded the bowl, trying to usher the moose toward an exit at the bottom of the halfpipe.<\/p>\n

Concerned residents watched from afar, hoping for a happy ending.<\/p>\n

\u201c[He] appears exhausted,\u201d one onlooker wrote in a post at the time<\/a>. \u201cEveryone is concerned about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unable to coax him out of the skate park, rescuers decided to safely sedate the moose. Once he fell asleep, they used a harness to lift him out of the bowl and into a trailer.<\/p>\n

As reported by Cowboy State Daily, team members took the moose to a nearby park and waited for him to wake up.<\/p>\n

Finally free and thankfully uninjured, the moose happily returned to his home in the wild.<\/p>\n

\"Moose<\/a>Moose Stumbles Through Town Dragging A Bizarre Object From His AntlersHe couldn\u2019t see where he was going \ud83e\udece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, community members in Red Lodge, Montana, did a double take when they saw someone huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5441,5439,1397,5477,10585,90,5438,5436,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-796516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-encounters","tag-daily-dodo","tag-environment","tag-maeve-dunigan","tag-moose","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-the-dodo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}