SASKATOON — A young female moose trotted through the neighborhood of a Canadian city before abruptly turning and crashing through glass at school, authorities said.
The moose made the wrong turn on Thursday, crashing into a before-school program at Sylvia Fedoruk Public School in Saskatoon, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported. The 14 children inside the classroom were unharmed and were taken to safety, the network reported. One student sustained minor injuries but did not need medical assistance, according to CBC.
The moose was temporarily stunned but unhurt.
“We’re still kind of all in shock about it,” Veronica Baker, a spokeswoman for Saskatoon Public Schools, told The New York Times.
Jayme Melnyk, who was dropping her 2-year-old son off at the school shortly before 9 a.m., said she could not believe what she saw but kept her composure.
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“I was very calm about it,” Melynk told CBC. “It didn’t really faze me as much as it probably should have.”
Pat Dubois, a host on 92.9 The Bull, a local country radio station, called the incident “a quintessential Canadian story.”
“Once we found out that the students were OK, and that while the moose was slightly injured, it was going to be OK, then we kind of got a chance to laugh a little bit more, Dubois told the Times.
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The moose was just a few blocks from its normal habitat, Steve Dobko, a conservation officer with the Ministry of Environment for Saskatchewan, told the newspaper.
“But it took a wrong turn and it ended up in a schoolyard,” he said.
Conservation officers were able to tranquilize the moose before releasing her back into the wild, Dobko said.
Sarah Paulgaard was walking her three daughters to school when they spotted the moose running about 10 feet in front of them, the Times reported.
“If it just would have gone straight instead of turning left into the school, she would have been over a land bridge and back into nature,” Paulgaard told the newspaper. “She really didn’t have that far to go. She just made a wrong turn.”
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