Decapitated Kangaroo!
Submitted by Dreamweaver on Wed, 2008-01-23 09:48
Col (Hays)'s thread on Smiths/Yallingup - brought back a lot of (mostly) fond memmories of times when my younger brother and I used to surf down there.
Every Friday night, we'd pack my little Ford Escort van (beast machine NOT!) and make the familiar trek down to Yallingup car park.
In those days, there where no freeway sections, and the stretch of road down near Madorah/Singleton was know as 'the mad' mile on account of there being one lane each way, and the tendency for everyone to put the foot down and overtake with absolute disregard for common sense and safety.
As I said, MOST recolections are fond, but one incident is most prominent:
My brother and I would take spells driving. On one particular occassion, having seen a few roos, as I was belting myself into the passanger seat, I turned to my brother and said 'don't hit any roos'. He grinned and said ' I'll do my best'.
What I should have said was 'Don't hit any kangaroos, even dead ones'. Let me go on.
No sooner had I lapsed into a chest on chin doze, cathartic by the constant drone of the motor and monoty of an unchanging night road view, then there was was a might BANG and the van lurged suddenly upwards.
Groggily, I arose from my slumber, to see the (very hard) head of a decent sized kangaroo, pierce the floor pan between my feet! The escorts where renown for very thin floor pans (as several bush track gashes had previously proved).
The forward momentum and sharp edge of the floor pan hole decapitated the head (of the already dead roo) and splattered blood right through the cabin and across my legs.
What a nightmarish awakening!
We made it to yally's car park and washed ourselves down thoroughly and, as best we could, washed out the cabin.
I might add that 'roo parts etc' had, by then, congealed on the hot exhaust and other surfers down there were not quiet about the smell.
Episodes like that are hard to forget!
Every Friday night, we'd pack my little Ford Escort van (beast machine NOT!) and make the familiar trek down to Yallingup car park.
In those days, there where no freeway sections, and the stretch of road down near Madorah/Singleton was know as 'the mad' mile on account of there being one lane each way, and the tendency for everyone to put the foot down and overtake with absolute disregard for common sense and safety.
As I said, MOST recolections are fond, but one incident is most prominent:
My brother and I would take spells driving. On one particular occassion, having seen a few roos, as I was belting myself into the passanger seat, I turned to my brother and said 'don't hit any roos'. He grinned and said ' I'll do my best'.
What I should have said was 'Don't hit any kangaroos, even dead ones'. Let me go on.
No sooner had I lapsed into a chest on chin doze, cathartic by the constant drone of the motor and monoty of an unchanging night road view, then there was was a might BANG and the van lurged suddenly upwards.
Groggily, I arose from my slumber, to see the (very hard) head of a decent sized kangaroo, pierce the floor pan between my feet! The escorts where renown for very thin floor pans (as several bush track gashes had previously proved).
The forward momentum and sharp edge of the floor pan hole decapitated the head (of the already dead roo) and splattered blood right through the cabin and across my legs.
What a nightmarish awakening!
We made it to yally's car park and washed ourselves down thoroughly and, as best we could, washed out the cabin.
I might add that 'roo parts etc' had, by then, congealed on the hot exhaust and other surfers down there were not quiet about the smell.
Episodes like that are hard to forget!
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Nice one Colin
Kind of made eating lunch a bit tough. Talk about memories, a Ford Escot van. The poor mans shagging waggon. Was it yellow with pin stripes. What sort of board did you have in those days. Bet they were good memories - apart from the roo head and the smell of cooking roo guts.
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I never get use to the smell
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Sorry Col!
Sorry if I spoiled you lunch Col. LOL. You're right about the (Escort) Van - just as well I'm not to tall so I could easily (cough) sleep in it. It was white with (oh gawd, how embarresing) a black GT stipe. Mind you, in it's defence, I was was running twin webbers on a lotus motor so it wasn't your normal escort LOL.
As for the board (phew! taxing the memory - a 7'2" Cordingly swallow tail with (not bow LOL) thrusters.
Yeah, lots of good memories!
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kinda reminds me of a trip
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Yuk! A nice roo story
Yuk Kal - very graphic description!
Actually, here's another roo story, less gore this time folks. (Some of you have heard this)
Story goes, that a buss load of Japanese tourists where in (well) a tour buss, that hit a large Red, up north. They hadn't seen a roo up close, so they all jumped out to have a look at it.
Being tourists, sepecially japanese ones, and believeing the red was dead. One of them put his leather jacket on it and they all stuffed their passports and wallets in it's pouch and held it up for a photo shoot.
Unfortunately for them, the process of standing up the red revived the roo and it took off, adorned with a leather jacket and stuffed to the puch gunnels with all the passports and wallets.
Apparently, the constabulary, publican and the general public in the local town had a HUGE laugh when the embarrassed tourists reported it!
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Heard the same story
But the version I heard it was Gelignite Jack Murray in one of the old Redex around Australia trials. Supposed to be true, but probably just an urban myth.
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Still Good
Still a good yarn and laugh ay Col.
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Hi Ya, Quite some years ago
Hi Ya,
Quite some years ago my brother and his mate were doing a ride around the South West on their motor bikes. Brother hit a rabbit and thought no more about it until they stopped at the next town. When he got off and removed his helmut he was greated with an almighty stink. A careful look around found the rabbits head stuck between the foot brake pedal lever and the exhaust pipe. Had been sitting there quietly cooking for quite some time. LOL.
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A similar yarn
A similar yarn involves my grandad. He used to work on the building of the big dams in the eastern states many years ago. Anyway, one day he was coming back from work and he saw a snake on the road. For some reason he decided to run it over. Later on when he got home and went to get his old esky out of the boot and the snake bit him. It appears the snake had been picked up and thrown up near the axle and then climbed up into the boot of his old FJ.
Apparantly it wad a red bellied black snake. Mad him pretty crook for ahwile.
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LOL Ody, wasn't easter was it? (grin)
Hell Colin very nasty experience - it's not nice being bitten by a venemous snake - I know. LOL
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