Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:44:24 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur <arthur@col.auracom.com> To: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, malartre@aei.ca, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980627125637.23268M-100000@outpost.col.auracom.com> In-Reply-To: <980627053718.ZM23338@darkstar.connect.com>
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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Frank Pawlak wrote: > On Jun 27, 3:32pm, John Birrell wrote: > > Subject: Re: Does it's true? > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > In fact, you're thinking of Australia. Out here in the wilderness > > > there's no street lighting, and in the darkness you could get eaten by > > > a Tasmanian devil. > > > > But that'd be after dusk, when the "wildlife" comes out to play. A few > > months ago I was late getting home and I came across another bike rider > > lying on his side on the road having spoilt the nice paint job on his > > bike. He didn't hit the kangaroo. It jumped on _him_. What else can > > you expect just outside a town called Kangaroo Ground? > > > > Definitely safer to stay inside at night here. > > We have problems in the US, at least in the upper Midwest, with deer on the > highways getting hit by automobiles and trucks. But have never heard of one > hitting someone on a bike. So we must be relatively safe here in the Great > Lakes region of the US. :-) > > Frank > At first glance I thought the biker attacking kangaroo story might have been a joke, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. Here in Nova Scotia, Canada we have the same problem with deer walking out into traffic from time to time, and when that does happen most insurance comapnies will only pay the claim if you can prove that the deer ran into you, not the other way around. But we do have stories of Moose that will actually chase down a vehicle to ram it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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