Close encounters

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Seems more reliable than sending Glenn Maxwell in to bat anyway.

Should replace Watson at 3

 

[Paul Kersey]

Japan has a particularly nasty centipede. Anyhow, started putting a t shirt on one morning whilst in Ise. Have covered my head and neck when I feel something move and I stop. Yell out to better half - there's a centipede in my shirt, come and hit the side of my neck. Just hear laughing. Repeat. No there's not. Bang. Centipede bites me on the neck. These things hurt. Later advised by better half she didn't believe me for reasons which make no sense. Here's a picture of one, they can grow to 20cms or so. From memory, the ****er which bit me was about 15cm.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Had a red bellied black up ready to strike when I was about five.

Old man stopped me from taking another step (oblivious to it).

Snake buggered off.

 

[little graham]

Was walking down the road one day when I came across a king brown half way threw eating a common brown, right in front of me. One day when I went into the chook shed to get the eggs, out came a black snake (it was the colour brown) coming out of the chook shed, having beaten me to the eggs. One day my cat was meowing at the door, he wanted the show me the king brown he had chased under the car in the carport meters from the door. He was a proud puddy. We weren't happy, don't think he understood. Panic set in amongst my folks . I got shit loads more snake stories. We used to kill them with shovels until we woke up and realized they have an important role in the eco system. Until we realized it doesn't take a lot to live with them saftley.

 

[crownie]

walking in the hollywood hills one morning and turned into a street to see a wild dog starring at me from about 20 meters away, did a quick you turn.

 

[Gasometer]

Was at my parents house one night last year. Was late at night, dad was at work and mum was in her bedroom watching TV. Was in my room, heard my dog barking quite loudly. He usually barks over nothing, but noticed it had a different tone to it, so decided to go check. Stood at the front screen door, which had a massive hole in the fly-wire at the bottom. Stood at the door for about a minute, but didn't bother turning the outside light on for some reason, so I couldn't see anything. The dog had stopped barking and was just staring at me, so walked off, leaving the big front door open as it was in the middle of summer.

Then I could hear a sound, and the dog started barking again quite frantically, and was pouncing back and forth right on the door ledge. Went back, turned the light on, and saw a furious tiger snake about to poke its head through the hole in the fly wire. Jumped back, slammed the big door and went to get mum, as I'd never really encountered a snake before and she had.

We decided to try and get the dog inside somehow, so he didn't get bitten. Went through the back door and called him through. Then went out, found a shovel, and approached the front door. The snake was coiled up in between the big door and the screen door, so I wasn't able to get a clean shot on him. Had to get mum to slowly pull the screen door open and then throw a rock at him. She hit the snake fair in the head with the rock, and he arched up and started hissing very loudly. Donged him on the head a few times and that was the end of our troubles.

Doesn't sound that bad, I guess the close encounter part was me standing at the front door wondering what the dog was barking at for like a minute when there was a snake at my feet without me knowing. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

Credit to my dog, twice now he's found a snake very close to our front door, alerted us, then stayed right back while we dealt with it.

Nek time use this...

 

[JuddsABlue]

Lots of standard snake stories when camping in Echuca as a kid, lots of times parents would realise and wouldnt tell us but shuffle us out of the area quickly and tell us later

had a tiger snake on our mat in the suburbs once, I walked out and noticed it, prob wouldve stood on it otherwise

nearly got kidnapped in Thailand as an 8 year old but parents were around and the guy scrambled off

 

[Paul Kersey]

Enjoyed the casual 'nearly got kidnapped' bit at the end.

 

[ioppolo]

When I was in Bali two monkeys hopped out from the forest onto the sidewalk and started rooting.

 

[Gough]

When I was in Bali two monkeys hopped out from the forest onto the sidewalk and started rooting.

 

[Shupe]

I have a few from when I was in Africa a couple of years ago.

- We were rafting down some rapids when all of a sudden we heard screaming and people running up the side of the river telling everyone to bail out of the water immediately. I was a bit like wtf, but did as I was told. It turns out that just around the bend, probably about 50m away, was a very hungry hippo which attacked a couple who were a couple of minutes ahead of us. I'm not sure of their fate.

- I was doing volunteer work on a game reserve, which is obviously a very big property. The front gate was about a 45 minute drive away. One day I was walking through camp (there were no fences, it was completely open to the wild) when I felt some sort of liquid hit me. I looked up and there was nothing but blue sky. I then heard someone behind me tell me to stand still. Sure enough there was a big Mozambique Spitting Cobra standing up with his ****ing wings flaring spitting his venom at me. The other girl went to get the workers and left me all alone. The campaigner calmed down after about 30 seconds and slowly slithered away, at which point I decided to be a hero and follow him so that the actual trained staff could locate him and make sure he left the camp site. I ****ing shat myself. If that venom got into any open wounds, I'd have been fighting for life. And yes, I did have quite a few cuts on me (a result of working in the bush for some time and the monkey story further down).

- As mentioned previously, the camp site had no fencing. Woke up one morning and a Leopard had passed through. Quite surreal.

- I was in a communal area when I saw a monkey go into my hut, so I went running to get the little shit out and just totally disregarded a flight of about 4 stairs going down in front of me. Stacked it pretty hard, split knee open, totally almost died. Kept going like a boss, chased the campaigner out, but not before he stole two apples. He then proceeded to climb a tree right in front of me and eat my apples. Like a human. It was weird.