Topic: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.

[Remcod]

Did the roo's friends get mental help witnessing this and where they questioned by   the insurance company?


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[vfourfreak]

Did the roo's friends get mental help witnessing this and where they questioned by   the insurance company?


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They appear to have been looking away from the thoroughfare at the moment of impact. Doubt that they witnessed the demise of their hopping friend.

Kev

[Terry in Australia]

I had a laugh when I saw this.
A fella barreled a roo with his truck and put in a damages claim to his insurance company which he was quite entitled to do.

So, doing the right thing, he filled in all of the spaces on the fcuken insurance claim form and sent it back into them for processing.
Then the mierable fcukas questioned him about some the information that he'd provided.

Now surely, you'd have to think that the #$%*en insurance company would have a separate and specific claim form against kangaroos.
They did ask the questions on the claim form and they got a fcuken answer and then they got their testicles in twist over it all.

Insurance Companies piss me off. 

I had the same problem Mick, I hit 6 Roo's in the first 6 month I worked at Pucka, and although I didn't have to fill out insurance claims I had to fill out incident reports as I was driving my company owned Hilux. I went thru 2 genuine Toyota bullbars in 5 years, plus about 3 sets of driving lights.

I also managed to smash my site managers Ford Fairmont when I clobbered a big bigger at 110 (or so..........) on the Hume Highway, and threw him into the Mazda beside me. Roo's would have to be one of the most useless animal God ever shovelled guts into............  

[mick7504]

I nailed a roo on the way to Katherine at about 6:30am one morning mate.
That was back in the time when there was an open speed limit on the Stuart Highway.
Reckon that I was doing about 110mph in the Prado and gave this mongrel roo a bloody good hit.

The bloody kangaroo snapped in half on impact.
One half went under the car and the other half hit the windscreen and shattered it, and then got slammed into the roof and caved it in at the front.

When the insurance assessor fella came to have a look, he reckoned that I was telling fcuken lies about the kangaroo impact because he hadn't seen damage done like that before.

Then I told him to have a look underneath the car at the dried up guts and pubic hair that was growing on the undercarriage.
Well he changed his mind and looked pissed off after he knew that he was wrong about his fcuking cause of damage assessment. 

[Retro Rocket]

Mick, I had a mate that hit on in an old dunny door {Holden commodore for our US friends}, it did almost the same thing but stayed intact, it hit the front bumper, totaled that, the grill and the radiator, continued on to the windscreen blew that out, bent back the top channel frame for the screen, flew into the air and landed on the roof, made a fcuking mess of the Holden, actually it wrote it well and truly off, no insurance on that one...   Yes, Rick was extremely pissed off....

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah mate, I hit a 'Roo (or possibly a Wombat) one on my old BMW K100RT on my way up to Canungra in 1991, lucky for me it was probably already dead as I hit it in the dark at around 100 MPH, and I just "got some air" as I went over the top of it, if it was standing up or moving, I would have been stuffed.

Anyway, I stopped at a motel in Forbes that night and had a quick look at the bike and it looked OK, so I parked it outside my room on the verandah, and next morning gave it a closer examination. Well the underneath of the bike was covered in fur and guts, it stunk, and of course, it was baked onto the engine and radiator.

I found a servo with a car wash and I blasted as much of that crap off it as I could and continued on, but months later when I dropped the engine and gearbox out to fix a slipping starter clutch, I found another couple of handfulls of manky guts to clean out, and that pissed me off!

[petercb750]

Years ago as a long haired bikie we were at the pub and a mate walked in limping really bad and both arms in plaster....he'd hit a roo on his 750 four at 100mph...parts of the bike were never found including the speedo...he said he went into orbit and felt like ages til he touched down again, rolling to a stop on a couple of feet from a large gum tree...lucky boy.

[Terry in Australia]

Pete, that reminded me of the bloke Brian (Bear) introduced me to at the Royal Talbot Hospital in Kew when Brian was recovering from his crash. This poor bugger was out on his MV Agusta (I can't remember, but it was a big Italian sports bike?) when a big 'Roo ran into him at right angles and and shoved him and his bike into a tree at 60 MPH.

I can't remember either whether he was a Paraplegic or Quadriplegic, (I've got a feeling he was a quadriplegic with limited use of one arm) but either way, that 'Roo fcuked up his life, for good. 

[faux fiddy]

That my cb350 is spraying oil out of the sides of the cylinder after a lot of work, to find out here that's due to poor gaskets, spend a fortune on new original ones, having to wait weeks for them to arrive, and then take it apart again risking stripped treats again etc.

Some hobby

Why did I not buy a new one again?

At least I have 6 dogs to piss the neighbors off





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Hey welcome aboard. Dripping  oil is  bummer enough.

I think the south side dive bar is looking for an intern.  Seeing eye dogs only.

[mick7504]

The ol' wandering Buffalo do a fair bit of damage when you drive into 'em.
This lad found that out the hard way when he fcuked his new Prado.
A .338 Winchester Magnum has the same outcome on the ol' Buff and it works out a lot cheaper too. 

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah Mick, that would really ruin someone's day, methinks. My last road trip back to Melbourne from the NT was in 1995 and (apart from boredom) the biggest problem was fcuking huge Eagles going thru your windscreen.

Just near the Ti tree roadhouse, I saw one such damaged Unimog on the side of the road with two soldiers (the driver and his co-driver) staggering around with some pretty major lacerations, while the Eagle inside the cab decided whether he was gonna give the truck back, or not............

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Damn that thing looks enormous?  That road looks clear and large enough to see it coming, but maybe they move fast??

[Tews19]

The entire lot of you Aussies on the roads.... It's like playing Dodgeball with animals V humans! Gee! I used to envy your lifestyles, not so much anymore unless you're content to stay at home and while away the time sipping frothy cool beverages.

By the way, do you need a special permit to hunt Water Buffalo with a Prado? I thought I read somewhere that the Holden delivers with one on the plate, but don't know about the Prado?

I think the game is called Frogger!


What does the water buffalo taste like? Chicken?

[mick7504]

That fella driving the Prado walked away unscathed amazingly except for bit of a shake up and a few bruises.

The Water Buffalo steaks are good tucker on the barbeque.
It's rich red meat that needs to be marinated first to get rid of that "wild" taste and tenderise it a bit.
The butchers also sell Buffalo sausages as well as Camel snags and Croc steaks.

What are we having for tea tonight men. 

[Retro Rocket]

That fella driving the Prado walked away unscathed amazingly except for bit of a shake up and a few bruises.

The Water Buffalo steaks are good tucker on the barbeque.
It's rich red meat that needs to be marinated first to get rid of that "wild" taste and tenderise it a bit.
The butchers also sell Buffalo sausages as well as Camel snags and Croc steaks.

What are we having for tea tonight men. 

Like venison Mick...?

[bear]

Pete, that reminded me of the bloke Brian (Bear) introduced me to at the Royal Talbot Hospital in Kew when Brian was recovering from his crash. This poor bugger was out on his MV Agusta (I can't remember, but it was a big Italian sports bike?) when a big 'Roo ran into him at right angles and and shoved him and his bike into a tree at 60 MPH.

I can't remember either whether he was a Paraplegic or Quadriplegic, (I've got a feeling he was a quadriplegic with limited use of one arm) but either way, that 'Roo fcuked up his life, for good. 

Got an update on Chris for you Tez.
I talked to him a couple of months ago, and he's kicking plenty of goals.

Apparently his concreting business is going from strength to strength.
He's had three Aprillia's since he got out of Talbot.
He replaces them at every model change.
He can't ride em, but he keeps buying em.
Apparently it pisses his missus off no end.

He's a parra, same as me.
And like me he had a pretty bad "brackeal pleckses injury" (not spelt right).
But unlike me it didn't improve to much, so his left arm is pretty well stuffed.

I'll say g'day for you next time we catch up.

Cheers,
Brian

[mick7504]

That fella driving the Prado walked away unscathed amazingly except for bit of a shake up and a few bruises.

The Water Buffalo steaks are good tucker on the barbeque.
It's rich red meat that needs to be marinated first to get rid of that "wild" taste and tenderise it a bit.
The butchers also sell Buffalo sausages as well as Camel snags and Croc steaks.

What are we having for tea tonight men. 

Like venison Mick...?

Yes mate, no worries.
If I'm hungry, I'll eat the arse of a low flyin' duck.
The ol' Magpie Goose is good tucker, but it has to be marinated for about a week.
We use to go out Goose shootin' every Thursday night and then fire up the barbie in the bush after curfew and knock up some Goose Sartays and woof into 'em with some Peanut Sauce on fresh bread.
Then wash 'em down with a cold beer. 

[mick7504]

It's rich red meat that needs to be marinated first to get rid of that "wild" taste and tenderise it a bit.

Do you use 10-40 or lean toward 20-50? I mean, if you're hunting them with autos, is the wild taste from their diet or from the grille and motor that plows them up 

We have deer in abundance here, about 60-90 kilos on average. They make a mess of lots of cars, bikes and trucks. But a Water Buffalo, geez! That's a whole other danger- you guys have my utmost respect for piloting a motorcycle within their midsts.

There's always a danger lurking Cal.
Whether it be wildlife or another unobservant road user.
I think that one of the best things to do is to anticipate the probabilities without being distracted from your mission. 

[Terry in Australia]

Pete, that reminded me of the bloke Brian (Bear) introduced me to at the Royal Talbot Hospital in Kew when Brian was recovering from his crash. This poor bugger was out on his MV Agusta (I can't remember, but it was a big Italian sports bike?) when a big 'Roo ran into him at right angles and and shoved him and his bike into a tree at 60 MPH.

I can't remember either whether he was a Paraplegic or Quadriplegic, (I've got a feeling he was a quadriplegic with limited use of one arm) but either way, that 'Roo fcuked up his life, for good. 

Got an update on Chris for you Tez.
I talked to him a couple of months ago, and he's kicking plenty of goals.

Apparently his concreting business is going from strength to strength.
He's had three Aprillia's since he got out of Talbot.
He replaces them at every model change.
He can't ride em, but he keeps buying em.
Apparently it pisses his missus off no end.

He's a parra, same as me.
And like me he had a pretty bad "brackeal pleckses injury" (not spelt right).
But unlike me it didn't improve to much, so his left arm is pretty well stuffed.

I'll say g'day for you next time we catch up.

Cheers,
Brian

Good on you Brian, thanks for that mate, as you know, I don't pay much attention to anything, but I learned so much from visiting you at the Austin and then later at the Royal Talbot, fcuk, what an eye opener!

For a bloke like me who's had heaps of get-offs, but no really serious injuries, and only a crook back from schidtty parachute landings, to see you and your new friends being so positive after being smashed beyond recognition, and carrying such devastating injuries with absolutely no self pity or even giving up motorcycling was, and still is so humbling.

Please give Chris my regards, he probably doesn't remember me and that's fair enough, but I'll never forget him.

I was looking for a pic of you in hospital to post here but then I found a pic I took of Sally the wonder dog not long before she snuffed it, if you look hard enough you can see that she was almost blind with cataracts and at almost 17 years old, was having a few problems getting around, but like you and Chris, she never felt sorry for herself, she just got on with it, which is a remarkable quality. Cheers, Terry.

     

[mick7504]

Sally's a bloody good looking dog Terry.
Her markings are so close to Charlie, just a different body shape and ears.
Nothings ever to hard for the ol' dishlickers. 

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks Mick, she'd have gotten on well with Charlie, she was a good old pooch, she loved eating my peanut butter sandwiches, my new workgloves, and tennis balls. I've gotta get my new fences put up so I can get another pup, this is the longest it's been where I haven't had a dog, and I think we all need one. Cheers, Terry.

[spotty]

^^^^^^^, one of my old dogs, Hogan the Great Dane, was born with a curved, twisted, arthritic spine, missing muscle groups in all 4 legs,, arthritis in most joints of his body, deaf as a post and dumber than his own $hit, but he never ever seemed to have any regrets or complaints, he was by far the most cheerful, loving dog i've ever met. i'll miss him til the end of my days
we still had his sister (Priscilla)after he went and she was deaf too and nearly completely blind by the end, but again, never complained about anything, just wanted to share whatever i was doing and never failed to offer total unquestioning love (if not obedience....)
she's been gone a while now but we just couldn't get by without a dog so we went out and splashed big bucks on a pedigree Dane, with the intention of getting a dog that at least wasn't broken when we got it. then we decided she was probably lonely in the yard on her own so we got another rescue. best move we could have made, Finn is the craziest, happiest, friendliest dog you will ever meet, he and Lei-Lani were best friends from the second they met, they absolutely love each other
i guess what i'm trying to say is dogs are indeed our best friends, unconditional, unquestioning and uncomplaining. being around them and 'owning' them has taught me far more than i would have ever believed it would. having seen what they can do and still get on with it sometimes helps me when the arthritis etc kicks in and makes just moving a fairly painful thing to do. just tell meself to shut up and get on with it......
anyway enough dribbling from me, heres some pics of the kids

this is Hogan, you can see how skinny he was, didn't matter how much we fed him he never put any weight on, people thought we were starving him



his siter, priscilla, deaf, blind and very sneaky......



Lei-Lani, the puppy version, she's a bit bigger now, closer to 60kg than the 20kg when we got her



and finally, Finn, the miniature Irish Wolfhound, got more love than he knows what to with

[Remcod]

Cannot have enough bikes beer and dogs to guard them


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[74cb750]

we lost our dog, an australian sheepdog, last year.
debating getting another dog, but something smaller.

[Terry in Australia]

Gorgeous dogs Spotty, and an excellent story. Cheers, Terry.