Are you really sure you want to move to australia???

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:27 pm

Joe- better get some pepper spray to bring with you......

From todays news...

Giant kangaroo attacks elderly Australian woman

BRISBANE, Australia — Australian police were forced to pepper-spray a giant kangaroo after it bounded into an elderly woman's garden as she was hanging out the washing and attacked her.

The 94-year-old said she thought she was going to die as the red roo, which can grow up to two metres (6ft 7in) tall and jump more than nine metres (30 feet) in one leap, knocked her to the ground and kicked her several times.
"I thought it was going to kill me," Phyllis Johnson told the Courier-Mail newspaper from her hospital bed following the attack in the outback Queensland town of Charleville on Sunday.

"It was taller than me and it just ploughed through the clothes on the washing line straight for me.
"I happened to have a broom nearby and I just started swinging at it. I bashed it on the head but it kept going for me. Not even the dog would help, it was too frightened."

Bruised and bleeding, she managed to crawl to her flat and alert her son, who called the police.
Sergeant Stephen Perkins told the newspaper the animal lunged at two officers when they arrived and they had to use pepper spray to subdue it.

"One officer had to deploy his spray on the animal and it ran away and saw the other police officer out of the corner of its eye," he said.
"The other officer also had to deploy his spray to keep from getting hurt. It's one of the many unusual calls we get out here."

Despite her ordeal, Johnson said she had a soft spot for kangaroos, which are found across Australia.
"I used to feed them next door, give them some bread, and they've always been so gentle," she said.
"They weren't as big as that one though and they've never gone for me like that. This one seemed to target me, it was putting its feet into me and kicking."

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:35 am

If it isn't bears it's.............. Kangaroos!!!

Love, Shirley

nancyl · Post by **nancyl** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:50 am

We are having quite a time with bears in our area too, but I have yet to see a kangaroo!!

Nancy

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:59 am

Maybe we need to try to set up some sort of international exchange program, trading bears for kangaroos. In Australia, the bears could help to keep the 'roo population from getting out of hand, and if any of the big 'roos wanted to fight, the bears would make great sparing partners.

In the U. S., the bears wouldn't need to be raiding bird feeders, if they had a few kangaroos to chase around, and fight with.

Tex

sarkin · Post by **sarkin** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:25 pm

Tex,

Great in principle... though the folks I know who live in bear country call it "deer country" when *that* pest is raiding gardens or making the side roads unsafe to drive at night... and somehow, they can never get the bears & deer to duke it out ;)

Maybe 'roos are just what we need to give the ecosystem a little shake-up...

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:20 pm

Well, heck, we've got over 4 million deer in Texas alone - surely we can afford to sweeten the deal by throwing in a few deer, so that the Aussies can break the monotony of dodging 'roos on the highway, by being able to dodge a deer or two, now and then.

Maybe we can talk them into sending us one koala for every 10 thousand deer that we send them, for example. If they won't go for that, how about a koala for every 100 thousand deer.

Sara wrote:Maybe 'roos are just what we need to give the ecosystem a little shake-up...

Here in Texas, the 'roos could supplement all the emus that were turned loose to roam wild, about a decade ago when the ostrich and emu ranching fad went bust.

For a while there, when all the suckers thought they were going to get rich riding the emu ranching wave, we probably had more emus than Australia. I kid you not, even a lot of people living on the fringes of cities, had anywhere from a few, to dozens of emus in their back yards, hoping to retire to a life of luxury, in a few years, when they sold out, (unfortunately, as with all "too-good-to-be-true" schemes, the game ran out of suckers, before most of them were able to sell out).

Love,
Tex

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:27 pm

Roo meat is quite nice.

i dont think i have ever heard of a bull roo being so agressive.
i found the story quite funny as 10 years ago a copper would have pulled his gun and shot the thing..... but now they use pepper spray.....

I havent hit a roo on the road but i have quite a few near misses. When Joe was here in April and he was travelling up to toowoomba, two roos jumped across the road in front of him, he thought it was way cool.

with all the poisonious snakes over a here, i dont think we need bears as well......

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:36 pm

Gabes wrote:with all the poisonious snakes over a here, i dont think we need bears as well......

Have I got a deal for you!!! It just so happens that wild hogs eat snakes, and we've got millions of wild hogs that we would be more than happy to trade in some kind of deal, or give away, if necessary - aw, what the hell,? Why pretend - we'll pay you to take them all, (if you can figure out a way to catch them).

I have a hunch that bears probably eat snakes, also, but they probably don't seek them out the way that hogs do.

Tex

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:46 pm

Tex..... i think we may have a deal!

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:10 pm

Are you willing to throw in a koala or two?

The closest thing we have over here are porcupines, and there's nothing warm and cuddly about them.

Tex

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:57 pm

I suppose a few koala's to sweeten the deal is ok, it could make up for sending you Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Andrew Gunsberg,

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:09 pm

Tex

natythingycolbery · Post by **natythingycolbery** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:33 pm

At times like this I am glad that I live in England!

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:36 pm

but Naty you got a worse deal than the usa....
we sent Kylie and danni minogue, peter andre and Jason donovan to your country......

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:46 pm

I don't know Gabes drop bears, killer kangaroos and snakes... It does sound like you aussies know how to have fun.

It was pretty cool to see that roo in front of the car, I got some great pictures of that one.

Let's see we have the saying Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My...

We have to find a saying like that for Oz

Joe