Apartment Manager Adventures

When I was younger we had a balcony where my brother and I would store our bikes and skateboards and toys. One morning my mom heard some noise on the balcony and opened the curtain to find a man using a hack saw on the chains that had our bikes locked up to the balcony! This man was stealing our bikes!!!! My mom chased him off, but I have never forgotten what happened.
Being on site apartment managers of the building, we try to be alert and pay attention to unusual noises. Early one morning, I heard a ruckus on our balcony and those memories came flooding back. I just knew there was going to be someone out there stealing all of our snow removal tools and yard tools!

So I stormed to the balcony fuming mad and ripped back the curtain ready to catch the thief red handed (I intended to give him a good scare by yelling at him) when all the sudden something surprised me and my breath was taken back!….

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There was not a man anywhere on the balcony only the HUGE nose of a MOOSE!!!! We had one of those flower baskets that hangs off the balcony railing and the moose was eating the flowers that I had not thrown away from the summer yet. Now let me share a little fact with you: our balcony is 8 feet off the ground. And the FACE of the moose was right there eating away at those flowers.

So instead of me giving the thief a scare, the thief (after all he was stealing my dead flowers) gave me a scare. So I hurried and got my camera and was able to get a few pictures before he non-chalantly walked over our fence (4 feet tall) like it wasn’t even there.

We get moose in town frequently (kind of like that show Northern Exposure but in a real city setting) and even in our yard at least 2 or 3 times a winter eating berries off our ash mountain trees. But we have never had them nudge shovels with their noses to eat flowers on our balcony until that day. Silly moose. Here are some pictures of the big guy.

So, that’s one of the more unusual things we have found when we thought someone was trying to do something to the apartment complex. Have you ever had something strange like this happen to you? Let us know by using the comments section below

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