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So not only do they chase you on foot they lie in wait for passing bikers too... you guys are really brave!!!
I'd rather hit 100 snakes than one of these overgrown rats.
Horrible place that Australia, the number of times I've nearly been killed by snakes, spiders , jellyfish, sharks, drop bears ....
Thats why after 32 years I returned to the UK, I just hoping I can survive another winter.
They just don't like Hardley riders, which is fair enough :grin:
Quote from: Sweaty on Wednesday, 08 July 2020, 07:39 AM
They just don't like Hardley riders, which is fair enough :grin:
Bit to many for my liking these days times have changed, used to be all sports bikes. Seeing too many of them new Kawasaki's as well.
There was a guy in a LandCruiser up on Cape York many years ago. he was driving along resting his arm on the open windowsill.
As you do.
He ran over snake, which flicked up and it's fangs spiked his arm - envenomating him. Sadly it was fatal.
But that's not 'Australia' that's "damned unlucky".
Typically I'm not killed more than 3 or 4 times a week by our domestic wildlife.
I find land sharks to be quite dangerous...
Well THIS is freakishly timely.
It's from the Queensland Police website:
Driver fights off deadly snake on highway
July 7, 2020
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2020/07/07/driver-fights-off-deadly-snake-on-highway/
(includes video)
Don't be coming up here to Scotland as we have kamikaze haggis's up here :whistling: :stir:
Quote from: VladTepes on Wednesday, 08 July 2020, 09:56 AM
Well THIS is freakishly timely.
It's from the Queensland Police website:
Driver fights off deadly snake on highway
July 7, 2020
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2020/07/07/driver-fights-off-deadly-snake-on-highway/
(includes video)
Saw that on the news last night, I might have done a bit of speeding if it was me as well.
I've run over a few snakes over many many years of riding. The one thing that scared me most though was a 6 foot Goanna on the side of the road and he didn't run out in front of me luckily. That would have been a disaster. :whistling:
GSX, goanna not good. I had worse on Cooktown road, We were moving along, bloody great huge pig came running, nothing i could do, he just stopped on edge of road. I reckon loud exhaust on Rocket saved me that day.
Don't have to travel that far. Just bring a bit of stupidity with you:
https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/07/stag-night-snake-bite-reptile-bites-man-on-tongue-at-austrian-party (https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/07/stag-night-snake-bite-reptile-bites-man-on-tongue-at-austrian-party)
A bite by this viper is not life-threatening for a healthy adult but in this case it apparently was.
I'm more surprised by the fact that this muppet has reached the age stated in the article. What a twat :happy1:
Quote from: seth on Wednesday, 08 July 2020, 06:41 PM
Don't be coming up here to Scotland as we have kamikaze haggis's up here :whistling: :stir:
Don't forget the midgies. :facepalm:
@Monarchjock you can never forget the midgies
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I´ll just add another country very simiar to Oz regarding wildlife, South Africa. When I´m at my mom´s I always take a hell lot of attention at night driving. Never rode there, a bit afraid. Imagine a 600/700 kg eland springing out of the bush in the middle of the night when you´re doing 120km/h !
Deer species and kangaroos are both complete bastards as far as road hazards are concerned.
Other large animals mostly amble, these things jump out of nowhere and just arrive directly in front of you.
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I drove around it after I worked out where the front was.
Quote from: Irish in Oz on Friday, 17 July 2020, 07:29 AM
I drove around it after I worked out where the front was.
Doesn't look like Ireland :stir: :stir:
Black snakes normally indicate extremely poisonous :facepalm:
Hope you didn't kill it.......
Remember....."Black lives matter" :facepalm:
Yellow belly black snake, sleeping on a red rock . . .
Red belly black snakes here, never see many yellow rocks but.
Quote from: KiwiCol on Friday, 17 July 2020, 06:04 PM
Yellow belly black snake, sleeping on a red rock . . .
"....waiting for the Irishman to pass...."
It was a red belly, more of them around where I live, he probably hangs around that gully on the side of road as it usually has water in it.
Was early in the morning he was warming himself up on the tarmac.
Eric, waiting for the stranger to go. King of the Mountain , actually about a running race held here on Sunshine Coast.