Boomerangs were originally made for hunting, not return frisbee.
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Boomerangs were originally made for hunting, not return frisbee.
yeah. screw this frisbee shit :D
i always wanted to throw a boomarang. just to see what its like thats all.
[quote=cargirl1990;900392]i always wanted to throw a boomarang. just to see what its like thats all.[/quote]
Its fun. The trick is to close your eyes and make a wish right after you've thrown it....then wait :D
[quote=DesmoRob;900402]Its fun. The trick is to close your eyes and make a wish right after you've thrown it....then wait :D[/quote]
"i wish i had health insurance"
Boomerangs?
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[quote=clutch-monkey;900403]"i wish i had health insurance"[/quote]
"I wish I never had to waste my time chewing food ever again"
[quote=cargirl1990;900321]so Aussie members. i'd like to know on why kangaroo's just love to hate your cars so much as to hit them. [/quote]
Most often its purely a random event (lots of kangaroos and lots of cars) but ime perhaps not so for low-speed impacts...
At these lower speeds, time and again you'll see a kanga seemingly [i]deliberately[/i] aim to intercept an oncoming vehicle, and if that vehicle swerves to miss (usually a big no-no btw) the roo will react by [i]also[/i] changing its trajectory to again aim for impact.
This behaviour is typical and commonly perceived as suicidally dumb but interestingly there is an imo quite credible explanation which theorises that one roo (female iirc?) within its mob will instinctively act as a sacrificial diversion, to enable the mob to escape.
Obviously the above doesn't apply to all k-roo encounters, but I've seen enough to be convinced that there's something to it, in certain (low speed) circumstances where the kangaroo has time to react, at least for some species.
Btw cargirl, see my attached pics of two late-model Falcons to show the risks involved from hitting an 'in-flight' roo at highway speeds! :eek:
(unfortunately the driver of the blue car was killed .. :( .. life can be a real lottery)
Jeesus, Thats the first I've seen of those images. HOooooly hell :(
[quote=nota;900420]Most often its purely a random event (lots of kangaroos and lots of cars) but ime perhaps not so for low-speed impacts...
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agreed
as i said before, had the side of the car headbutted, but imo because i may or may not have been speeding it didn't give them a chance to get in [I]front[/I] and really give me trouble.
Kangaroo's are incredibly dangerous things, not only because they're large, bottom heavy, and dopey, but they're also incredibly unpredictable wild animals.
Kind of like Americans <buh dump tish>
[quote=IBrake4Rainbows;900427]Kangaroo's are incredibly dangerous things, not only because they're large, bottom heavy, and dopey, but they're also incredibly unpredictable wild animals.
Kind of like Americans <buh dump tish>[/quote]
You guys should do a big brother rip off titled "Living with americans" which is just a bunch of aussies in a house with roos.
woow, thats unreal. I thought we had it bad over here with our mule deer population. Those things have no brains, and massive amounts of them are killed on roads every year. Dumb to the point where one ran into the side of my dad's truck as he was driving along at 60 km/h, and it wasn't even dark out so it couldn't have been blinded.
The only other animal we have in my area with no road sense are quails. These are actually kind of fun to watch, because they criss cross the streets all day long, and they have an incredibly terrible time making up their minds. First off, they don't see much point in moving until a vehicle is getting close, and then its like "OK GUYS WE GOTTA GO." Once they're half way across the road, they start to sing to themselves "should I stay or should I go now?!" Then, after a few moments of undecidedly tap dancing back and forth in the middle of the street, they nearly always get turned to poultry patties. Luckily for them, stupidity comes in great supply, and quails are at the opposite end of the endangered scale. What really pisses me off the most about the whole thing is the people that slam on their brakes to save the unsuspecting little suicide troops. While most of those people are soccer moms and senior citizens, it really gets on most peoples' nerves.
[quote=nota;900420]Most often its purely a random event (lots of kangaroos and lots of cars) but ime perhaps not so for low-speed impacts...
At these lower speeds, time and again you'll see a kanga seemingly [i]deliberately[/i] aim to intercept an oncoming vehicle, and if that vehicle swerves to miss (usually a big no-no btw) the roo will react by [i]also[/i] changing its trajectory to again aim for impact.
This behaviour is typical and commonly perceived as suicidally dumb but interestingly there is an imo quite credible explanation which theorises that one roo (female iirc?) within its mob will instinctively act as a sacrificial diversion, to enable the mob to escape.
Obviously the above doesn't apply to all k-roo encounters, but I've seen enough to be convinced that there's something to it, in certain (low speed) circumstances where the kangaroo has time to react, at least for some species.
Btw cargirl, see my attached pics of two late-model Falcons to show the risks involved from hitting an 'in-flight' roo at highway speeds! :eek:
(unfortunately the driver of the blue car was killed .. :( .. life can be a real lottery)[/quote]
thats insane! that blue Falcon was a cop car, wasn't it?
We have a moose problem at my dad's house which just resulted in one totaled pickup and (most of) one moose hanging from the powerlines near the road. Let me see if I can get him to send me the pictures, I was impressed.