Life lesson: If you do a moose a favor, the moose will probably try to fight you.

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In a video posted to YouTube Friday by one James Boseley, a good deed is repaid with violence.

Here's how Boseley put it:

I seen a yearling moose calf get tangled in a barbed wire fence so I released him and he wasn't too happy with me :)

That may be an understatement.

The calf was so pugnacious, the man had to hold it at bay as he fled to his vehicle.

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Watch the crazy encounter below (content warning: brief language):

It appeared that both man and moose escaped the encounter without serious injury.

This isn't the first baby moose attack TheBlaze has covered: Last year, a Department of Wildlife surveyor in Maine was battered after freeing a moose calf from a blindfold.

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