Colorado woman recalls horrifying moose attack: 'Broke three of my vertebrae'

A woman who survived a brutal moose attack in Colorado shared the details of her encounter and how she ultimately got away from the angry animal.

Chris Ray was walking with her dog, Nala, on a trail near her home on Tuesday when she was blindsided by an adult moose, an encounter she said she was lucky to survive — and won't soon forget.

"It was maybe like falling off a two-story building," Ray said during an interview with KDVR. "The moose broke three of my vertebrae in my back and one of my ribs and also did a lot of soft tissue damage, especially around my kidney."

She recalled being trampled by the animal several times before she managed to get free.

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According to the Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Colorado’s Shiras moose are the state’s largest game animal as full-grown moose can weigh between 800 to 1,200 pounds. They measure up to 6 feet at the shoulder.

"I see moose sometimes," Ray told the outlet, "When I see them, I turn around and come home."

During her walk along the South Saint Vrain trailhead near Ward, Ray said she heard a strange, unrecognizable noise — an "oo" sound from an unseen animal.

"I heard an ‘oo’ again and I turned around to look and a moose was charging us from the rear," Ray told KDVR.

"(I) turned away from her trying to get behind the nearest tree, but I tripped over some barbed wire that I didn’t even know was there," Ray explained. The wire left her with several cuts but she was not out of the woods yet.

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"[The moose] just ran over me and then ran over me again and then was coming back for a third time when I scrambled behind a tree," Ray recalled.

The moose then targeted Nala.

"What she did was she just stayed real alert and when the moose charged her she would just step aside at the last second and she did that three times and the moose never got her," Ray said.

Ray, badly beaten, managed to collect herself and walk her severely injured body back home, motivated to see her baby again.

"That was a mom moose defending her baby," Ray theorized, "I think that’s what it was and I wanted to get back home to see my baby too, so I got myself down that trail and I just wanted to see him, I was so excited to see him."

She said she wanted to share her terrifying ordeal so that others can be cautious around wild moose.

"They’re really dangerous animals and they get angry about things, just like we do," Ray concluded. "And they’ll come after you."

Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack has concerns about AI: 'It's a bit of a Pandora's box'

Jack Osbourne has dueling opinions about the use of artificial intelligence.

"I use it. I use it all the time. You know, we use it a ton for graphics and for stuff with the podcasts," he said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

The 38-year-old said he uses programs like ChatGPT "as a foundation. I don't ever use it as like a finished product, but I'll punch something, and I'm like, ‘Oh cool. This is a good starting piece.’"

And while Osbourne appreciates its capabilities, he admits he could see things taking a turn with the rapid growth of AI.

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"I think it, it could get really s---ty. It could get really bad," he said. 

One of his concerns is what it could mean for his children’s future. "The Osbournes" alum shares daughters Andy Rose, 7, Minnie Theodora, 5, and Maple Artemis, 1, with his fiancée Aree Gearhart. He is also father to daughter Pearl, 11, with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.

"If my child was like, ‘I'm going to go to school to be a coder,’ I'd be like, ‘Don't bother. Go learn to be a carpenter or a tiler or a framer or something if you want to be creative, because AI can't do that," the media personality said.

"It’s great. But I think it's a bit of a Pandora's box, and to the point of coding, the worst thing they could have ever done is teach AI how to code."

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Education is already seeing a shift in the use of AI.

It was announced earlier this year that Harvard University will incorporate AI chatbots to teach introductory coding courses for the fall semester.

According to the school's newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, the AI bot will help students find errors in their coding, answer questions, offer feedback and help students learn more about the coding process in other ways.

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The course’s teacher, Professor David Malan, explained that, though the bot will have question-answering capabilities, its answers can be reviewed by human staff members. He also explained that the bot's purpose is to help guide students through the learning process instead of outright answering questions for them. 

Osbourne isn’t alone in his concerns about AI's impact on creativity.

"America’s Got Talent" judge Simon Cowell told Fox News Digital recently he’s "not a fan of it," adding, "anything which is faking it is for me a bit of a problem."

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But his fellow judge Howie Mandel has a warmer feeling toward the technology.

"I am embracing AI. I have AI in my office," Mandel said.

"I work with a company that is creating a proto, they’re called, they’re a hologram company that does it. And I love the ability to do more things than I can do and be in more places than I can be with the use of technology."

The comedian did want to see some regulation with it though.

"I think as long as we have the right to kind of own and profit off of images and material that we have either prompted or looks like us, then there is no problem with AI," Mandel said.

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