Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:06:10 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: arthur <arthur@col.auracom.com>, 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: <19980627130610.B26300@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980627125637.23268M-100000@outpost.col.auracom.com>; from arthur on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 01:44:24PM -0300 References: <980627053718.ZM23338@darkstar.connect.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980627125637.23268M-100000@outpost.col.auracom.com>
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On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 01:44:24PM -0300, arthur wrote: > 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. > When I lived in northern Minnesota, around Ely and Duluth, I drove a truck that had the very large dent in the side where a full grown male moose had rammed it. This moose took offense to me being in his territory and chased me. The only think that save me from being trampled was my truck. A moose is not an animal to be trifled with, especially so during the rut. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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