So this moose walks into a medical building鈥�
While that could be a setup to a bad joke, it actually happened in Anchorage on Thursday.
A young moose trudging through the snow looking for a meal spotted green plants in the lobby of a medical building in the Providence Alaska Health Park and decided to drop in for a dose of greenery.
The ingenious 鈥� or lucky 鈥� moose triggered the sensors on the automatic doors to the building that houses the hospital鈥檚 cancer center and other medical offices, said Randy Hughes, the hospital鈥檚 director of security.
鈥淲e received a call from one of our tenants advising that a moose had just walked into the building,鈥� Hughes said.
Hughes believes it鈥檚 the same moose that has been hanging around campus. And even though moose are commonplace in Alaska, they made an announcement over the intercom of the moose鈥檚 presence out of safety concerns.
鈥淏ut it seemed like it was a magnet for people to come and see it,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not every day you get a moose walking into a building, so everybody was excited to take pictures and stuff like that.鈥�
On one video posted on social media, a woman wearing a mask and dressed in scrubs can be heard saying, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 crazy,鈥� as she walked by the moose, snapping a photo with her phone.
The moose was too preoccupied eating the office plants to notice the stir he was causing.
Security officers formed a semicircle to corral the moose and shoo it out the door. One officer even grabbed a piece of the plant the moose had been eating and tried to lure it out.
鈥淔inally, I think it had enough of everybody watching him, watching him eat,鈥� Hughes said.
The moose vacated the building but hung around in the building鈥檚 semicircular drive for a bit before heading to the other side of the building to bed down for an afternoon.
This wasn鈥檛 the first time a moose went inside one of the hospital complex鈥檚 buildings, and bears have tried to get into the emergency room before.
Hughes said there鈥檚 鈥渘ever a dull moment here at the hospital.鈥�
鈥擬ark Thiessen, The Associated Press
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