Comments on: Public Service Announcement: Kangaroos and cars don’t mix http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/ blogging is not a spectator sport Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fourby4 http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-338376 fourby4 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:02:58 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-338376 True. This is an interesting post. Kangaroos are should not mix with cars. just my 2 cents True. This is an interesting post. Kangaroos are should not mix with cars. just my 2 cents

]]> By: fourby4 http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-337973 fourby4 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:02:58 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-337973 True. This is an interesting post. Kangaroos are should not mix with cars. just my 2 cents True. This is an interesting post. Kangaroos are should not mix with cars. just my 2 cents

]]> By: fourby4 http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-322128 fourby4 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:02:58 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-322128 True. This is an interesting post. Kangaroos are should not mix with cars. just my 2 cents True. This is an interesting post. Kangaroos are should not mix with cars. just my 2 cents

]]> By: Emerging Earth - GoogleRoo http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-7509 Emerging Earth - GoogleRoo Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:16:41 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-7509 [...] Despite my Aussie friend Duncan’s opinion that Roos are pests, I quite like their cute furry faces. Perhaps this is my naive Americanism coming through and never having met a Roo I didn’t like (being that the only ones I’ve met are on the Discovery Channel). [...] [...] Despite my Aussie friend Duncan’s opinion that Roos are pests, I quite like their cute furry faces. Perhaps this is my naive Americanism coming through and never having met a Roo I didn’t like (being that the only ones I’ve met are on the Discovery Channel). [...]

]]> By: Dave Starr http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-2950 Dave Starr Wed, 03 May 2006 21:50:27 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-2950 Very interesting post,Duncan. Some years ago I used to be in the postion of sending dozens of Yanks per year to vist a site we had in Woomera. They would fly into Adelaide and rent a car there for the journey out through 'Roo country. As you are no doubt aware, rental car companies often offer vehicles with "'Roo Bars" as an option, which my folks were always under strict instructions to use, no exceptions. Well my boss's boss decided to take a trip one day and of course was not in the habit of taking advice from an underling like me. When he got to the rental agency a smiling clerk told him, "we have no cars with bars today, you don't need them anyway, Australia isn't overrun with kangaroos, you know. He made it 25 clicks before his rental Subaru was in the ditch, windscreen, both front wings and the radiator done for. Collison damage waiver insurance? Oh, he didn't need that either, just a rip off by the rental companies. Wonder why he was upset when he returned to the US and I asked him how his trip had gone? Oh well Very interesting post,Duncan. Some years ago I used to be in the postion of sending dozens of Yanks per year to vist a site we had in Woomera. They would fly into Adelaide and rent a car there for the journey out through ‘Roo country. As you are no doubt aware, rental car companies often offer vehicles with “‘Roo Bars” as an option, which my folks were always under strict instructions to use, no exceptions.

Well my boss’s boss decided to take a trip one day and of course was not in the habit of taking advice from an underling like me. When he got to the rental agency a smiling clerk told him, “we have no cars with bars today, you don’t need them anyway, Australia isn’t overrun with kangaroos, you know.

He made it 25 clicks before his rental Subaru was in the ditch, windscreen, both front wings and the radiator done for. Collison damage waiver insurance? Oh, he didn’t need that either, just a rip off by the rental companies.

Wonder why he was upset when he returned to the US and I asked him how his trip had gone?

Oh well

]]> By: Kim http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-2853 Kim Tue, 02 May 2006 17:40:43 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-2853 "every second overseas person I talk to thinks we have Kangaroos frolicking on every street corner - they get off the plane and expect to see em :-) Really? Their not on every corner? Oh boo, I'd better call Quantas and try to get my ticket refunded... “every second overseas person I talk to thinks we have Kangaroos frolicking on every street corner – they get off the plane and expect to see em :-)

Really? Their not on every corner? Oh boo, I’d better call Quantas and try to get my ticket refunded…

]]> By: Simone http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-2848 Simone Tue, 02 May 2006 12:48:38 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-2848 he he! And remember, you can even see them in the city on the freeway!!(one bashed into the side of a friends car. And Roe Hwy had a sign warning for them). My parents hit one once, on the way up to Perth from the southwest at 3am. The car broke, it wouldn't start unlessed pushed down a hill. But it's a myth really. Dropbears, now they are REALLY evil!! he he!

And remember, you can even see them in the city on the freeway!!(one bashed into the side of a friends car. And Roe Hwy had a sign warning for them).
My parents hit one once, on the way up to Perth from the southwest at 3am. The car broke, it wouldn’t start unlessed pushed down a hill.

But it’s a myth really. Dropbears, now they are REALLY evil!!

]]> By: Martin http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-2814 Martin Mon, 01 May 2006 13:23:20 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-2814 Aw c'mon Duncan, I'm a city boy ... you know that every second overseas person I talk to thinks we have Kangaroos frolicking on every street corner - they get off the plane and expect to see em :-) Now you'be built on that myth :-) Aw c’mon Duncan, I’m a city boy … you know that every second overseas person I talk to thinks we have Kangaroos frolicking on every street corner – they get off the plane and expect to see em :-)

Now you’be built on that myth :-)

]]> By: Marti http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-2812 Marti Mon, 01 May 2006 13:03:23 +0000 http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/01/public-server-announcement-kangaroos-and-cars-dont-mix/#comment-2812 I knew it! I have been a member of the Kangaroos are Evil believers club for years - LOL I knew it!

I have been a member of the Kangaroos are Evil believers club for years – LOL

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