The animal smashed through the vehicle's windscreen, scared the life out of passengers

Jun 19, 2014 12:33 GMT  ·  By

Earlier this week, a really unlucky moose got hit by a bus traveling from Minsk, Belarus, to Kiev, Ukraine, and ended up plunging head first smack through the vehicle's windscreen.

As noticeable in the photo above, the clash between the bus and the animal was a pretty serious one, so it is no wonder that passengers were terribly freaked out by the accident. More so since, by the looks of it, the moose was no ordinary animal. Daily Mail tells us that, shortly after arriving at the scene of the accident, police officers noticed that, when hitting the bus and stopping it dead in its tracks, the moose caused the vehicle's mileage to freeze at precisely 666.6.

For those unaware, 666 is considered to be the number of the beast and is often associated with the devil. Simply put, it's kind of like a barcode that supposedly serves to identify Satan, sometimes even summon him.

Since there really isn't all that big a difference between 666 and 666.6, some of the passengers in the bus concluded that, seeing how it managed to stop the mileage at precisely this number, the moose must have been cursed or possessed.

Hence, they took matters into their own hands and proceeded to cleanse the dead animal's body, together with the bus and the area around the site of the accident by praying and holding a roadside service for the dead animal.

“The thing ran straight out of the woods bordering the highway and I could not avoid hitting it. I noticed the 666 on the speedometer too, but I am not a superstitious person,” Isaac Voronoff said.

“But of the passengers on the bus heard about it they began crossing themselves right away, rattling their beads and setting up a cross at the side of the road to pray,” the bus driver further detailed.

While these beads-carrying passengers were busy praying, police officers, together with firefighters, got to work, and eventually managed to dislodge the dead animal's body from the windscreen and dispose of it accordingly.

According to one of the police officers who helped remove the moose's body from the bus, this accident did not occur because somebody – man or beast – was possessed.

On the contrary, evidence indicates that the moose had eaten fermented fruits it had found in the forest and was a tad inebriated. “They thought the beast was cursed when it fact it was merely drunk,” the police officers told the press in an interview.