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😆 if it isn't the local wildlife trying to end you life the plants are getting in on the act 😆
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-35600546
Karma 🙂
My brother moved to Queensland three years ago and likes to stress that the bitey, poisony things only bother you if you bother them.
Then, a few months ago he had to add 15km to his cycle commute from work because a magpie kept attacking him, drawing blood.
A magpie!
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Then, a few months ago he had to add 15km to his cycle commute from work because a magpie kept attacking him, drawing blood.
Ever wondered why Queensland is the major global consumer of zip ties?!
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It's a good look!!
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😆
"Hairy panic"
"Yellow big head"
Them aussies dont piss about with their taxonomy do they.
Friends of Mrs Gti moved to Oz and for about a year we kept receiving irritating emails with pics of the kids frolicking in the surf, BBQs, hikes, bike rides etc. I could tell Mrs Gti was slightly jealous. Then it all went quiet and next we knew, they were back in the UK living in Egremont, which is wet.
The reason? Someone they knew had been scoffed by a great white shark and suddenly they had realised Oz is full of animals that bite, sting and eat humans and actually they were missing home too much.
Egremont though, that's desperate!
I was attacked by a magpie near Perth whilst riding along. At first it felt like someone had gently hit my head with a pillow, but then it started bleeding.
Just after that I saw a huge black joke rubber spider on the kerb. Then I remembered where I was, and that it probably wasn't much of a joke. Or made of rubber.
Only ever seen dead snakes though.
I nearly stood on a death adder at work once
I nearly stood on a death adder at work once
Was that the hearing impaired guy from accounts?...
IGMC
Is a death adder dangerous then? 😆 (Australians don't do irony, do they?)
Possibly, but it could also explain why puff adders aren't prolific breeders.......
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There are a few approaches to combating the magpie menace.
NSFW due to some fruity and heartfelt colonial expletives)
The reason? Someone they knew had been scoffed by a great white shark and suddenly they had realised Oz is full of animals that bite, sting and eat humans and actually they were missing home too much
Id swim with sharks over Egremont any day.
Notably more cyclists were killed on the roads in Oz in the last 2 years than sharks since they started counting.
Grew up in Brisbane. The magpies were bad but the plovers were worse. And stop worrying about the sharks. The crocs ate all the sharks.
Heard on a radio news program last night - Hairy panic down under.
That's all.
Meh, soon after I got here I saw signs warning patrons at a restaurant that there were European wasps nearby. Never having been previously warned about European wasps in Europe, I sort of took that as a benchmark that the rest of the nasties down here might have been over-egged. Except the drop-bears that is.
Notably more cyclists were killed on the roads in Oz in the last 2 years than sharks since they started counting.
Yep, never been attacked by a shark while riding a bike either...
Or do you mean that cars ran over more than people on bikes than sharks on bikes?
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I couldn't understand why blue bottles on the beach was news worthy. They have flies everywhere already.
Why they need to give animals the wrong name I don't know.
No I think the stats reset because they realised that sharks can count
" Except the drop-bears that is."
dropbear protection on one of the local shared use paths:
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Or do you mean that cars ran over more than people on bikes than sharks on bikes?
or just careless sharkriders?
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or lack of attention with a chainsaw?
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thebrowndog - Member
Grew up in Brisbane. The magpies were bad but the plovers were worse. And stop worrying about the sharks. The crocs ate all the sharks.
Yup, sharks are no problem, the crocs sort them out.
Crocs are the only animal to worry about in Oz because they are the only one that regards you as prey.
And then there's this little problem in my old hometown...
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I bunny-hopped over a snake on the trail. After describing it to work colleagues they thought it was a "Big Brown" apparently 2nd deadliest snake in the world.
Being follwed by wallabies was kinda cool.
Being follwed by wallabies was kinda cool.
I nearly ran into an emu and his chicks a while back. I'm not sure who was more startled, but he was certainly angrier, and also probably much faster if he'd got angrier-er