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Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
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03/17/13 07:44 AM
03/17/13 07:44 AM
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Posts: 1,783 Queenstown, New Zealand
NickyScarfo
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Have any of you ever been attacked, bitten, stung etc by dangerous creatures and how did it come about?? I say this because I had one of those dreaded incidents a couple of years back here in Australia which as you know is known for deadly creatures. Check this spider out: Now I am terrified of spiders so this was my worst nightmare, I was in bed when suddenly I got a painful nip on my toe, turned on the lights and discovered this spider under the sheets!! Its called a mouse spider and is venomous, I was severely ill for a while, nausea, sweating, vomiting hallucinating etc. Had to go to hospital for an anti-venom. Out here you always need to keep your eyes out!
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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03/17/13 09:47 AM
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RichieAnimal
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My son while he was in college fell for a girl from Tasmania. The home of the Tasmanian devil and assorted other animals that can kill you. Plus it was freaking far away from Brooklyn, and the Knicks , giants, Yankees and boars head cold cuts. :), and his father and mother.
She invited him to go there and live there with her. I saw pictures of the house it was right on the water looked pretty nice.
My son wanted to go. I wanted him to stay here. I was paranoid that he goes there and some animal would kill him. We have plenty of animals here that can kill you who walk around on two feet. But animals are different you can't deal with them.
I gave him a thousands of reasons to stay here instead of telling him no. He would not have listen to my advice any way. So I basically bought him so he would stay.
You know there are a lot of good looking women everywhere including here in Brooklyn.
I don't believe there is only one woman in the world that you can love and be happy with. There all over the place. I tell my wife that when she pisses me off.
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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03/17/13 09:48 AM
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RichieAnimal
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The funny thing is that if you live in the city out here you rarely see anything. I see maybe one deadly spider a year and I have never seen a snake in the city only in the country. Sharks though are a real threat, a few people taken a year in my state. Swim in a pool who needs the beach?
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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03/17/13 10:24 AM
03/17/13 10:24 AM
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Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 1,449 New Jersey
Five_Felonies
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austrailia is home to some of the most dangerous creatures on earth, very scary! i've seen a # of black bears in west virginia, and even been pretty close to a few of them. they all run away quickly though, and there have only been about 23 fatal attacks in north america from black bears in the last 100 years or so, but its still a hell of an adrenaline rush!
i've seen a bunch of black widows, but the danger posed by them is vastly overrated. they have very small fangs that usually aren't even capable of penetrating clothing, and they just don't inject enough venom to really be life threatening to anyone besides the old, sick or young. however, much like bee's, some people will probably have an allergic reaction which could be trouble. a bite from one of them usually amounts to nothing more than a painful inconvenience for most, although its wise to get medical attention.
i've also come across a bunch of timber rattlesnakes, again in west virginia. they are considered to be the 2nd most dangerous snake in north america, behind the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. they can reach over 5 feet in length,although the few that i saw were all under 3. they can deliver enough venom with a single bite to kill a man, but usually just scurry away. still, the snakes we have over here are minor league compared to the bush!
It's either blue cheese with wings or go fuck yer mudda!
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: pizzaboy]
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03/17/13 04:00 PM
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Joined: Oct 2001
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About 20 years ago, I was at a business meeting in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. I went for a run to the beach, which took me across a large open field with a stream running through it. I stopped to, uh, relieve myself. While doing so, I spotted fresh alligator tracks. I have never run so fast before or since.
Out here in the High Desert, we get coyotes and javelinas roaming the streets of our subdivision, but they aren't dangerous. I have had a tarantula or two cross my path, and found a scorpion in my bedroom, but neither bit me.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: Turnbull]
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03/17/13 06:09 PM
03/17/13 06:09 PM
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About 20 years ago, I was at a business meeting in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. I went for a run to the beach, which took me across a large open field with a stream running through it. I stopped to, uh, relieve myself. While doing so, I spotted fresh alligator tracks. I have never run so fast before or since.
Out here in the High Desert, we get coyotes and javelinas roaming the streets of our subdivision, but they aren't dangerous. I have had a tarantula or two cross my path, and found a scorpion in my bedroom, but neither bit me. Haven't you learned by now that it's the sunshine and warmth that bring all those creatures? Back in Brooklyn, about 50 years ago. I was about 10 years old and went to work one day with my dad. That meant I got to separate all the nickels, dimes and quarters when my father emptied the pinball machines and jukeboxes. We were in a rough bar and my dad didn't want to count the money out in the open so he asked the bartender if there was somewhere he could go that was more private. The bartender pointed to a door and said, "Al, the light switch is on the wall". We opened the door, my dad reached for the switch and as soon as the light came on the room came alive. I mean it CAME ALIVE!!! Rats were swarming EVERYWHERE. Big fucking rats!! Dozens of them. I can't believe how quickly my dad scooped me up and slammed the door shut. To this day I am skeeved by rats. FWIW - It was somewhere downtown Brooklyn. I remember it was close to the Williamsburg Savings Bank Bldg.
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
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03/17/13 07:17 PM
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In the mountains of Kentucky they have all kinds of spiders and snakes, bears, deers, elks,coyotes, mountain lions and Lord knows what else is hiding in those mountains. But that won't stop me from getting on my 4 wheeler and having fun.
Dylan Matthew Moran born 10/30/12
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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03/17/13 07:17 PM
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RichieAnimal
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When I lived in Harlem we would go into the iron place barn after the horses left with their carts. The place were full of rats. We would shoot them. That is where I first learned to shoot. My Daddio told me Joe Valachi lived in that barn as a kid. No wonder he became a rat.
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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03/18/13 01:44 AM
03/18/13 01:44 AM
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Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 31,330 New Jersey, USA
J Geoff
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I'd have to say alligators as well. As older teens my friend and I would drive down to Florida and visit different parts of the state. One year we drove deep into the Everglades for a couple days. Walking through some woods we came up to a half-dozen sleeping gators, I'm guessing about 50 feet away. Backed away slowly. lol Besides that, the most dangerous creature that attacked us in the Glades were the fucking mosquitoes! We were walking on some rocks across a creek, and I looked down at my white socks and they were now black, covered with mosquitoes!
Was canoeing in upper Florida and came across a baby gator sleeping on a fallen tree over the water. We got right up to it. But then wondered where the mother was, who probably wasn't too far away, so high-tailed it out of there.
Did a lot of camping as a kid (Scouts) and older, but never ran into any bears. Would never want to, either! Even trekking through the woods (Pine Barrens) now I keep a sharp eye out.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Your Run-Ins with Dangerous Creatures??
[Re: BlackFamily]
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04/30/13 08:03 AM
04/30/13 08:03 AM
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Posts: 8,845 Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK
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Well i have documented before that i am no lover of snakes. We are lucky over here that we don't have many snakes but we do have adders which are poisonous and native to the north-east moors near to me. Now on a school trip many moons ago we were in said moor land on a field hike when somebody up front shouted "Look an adder"....... And i swear i turned and ran the 40 miles back home before the day was out!!! That was as close as i ever got 
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!
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