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scorpio24v · #16 Post by **scorpio24v** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:10 am

As I live south west of Ipswich, I was very interested in this story, till i read Queensland, and realised it must be `strailya, not Suffolk in the old country

sfoley1 · #17 Post by **sfoley1** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:25 am

I still think the Roo story wins so far.

Anyone from Norway?

I reckon coming across a fully grown adult Elk would be a bit uncomfortable

#18 Post by **mangocrazy** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:40 am

Or a Møøse

But these can be seen on nights out in any of our major conurbations, of course...

scorpio24v · #19 Post by **scorpio24v** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:13 pm

Depends what you have been drinking

I once convinced myself that I had seen the Aurora Borealis on a campsite in Suffolk, so Mooses whould be well within the bounds of possibility. speccialy in my poor addled mixed up mind

Falcopops · #20 Post by **Falcopops** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:32 pm

No such thing as a moose the night before.

Sometimes find that one has sneaked into your bed at some point in the night and shooed away the honey you originally picked up.

Moose · #21 Post by **Moose** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:01 am

Are you lot picking on me

Samray · #22 Post by **Samray** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:35 am

blenks · #23 Post by **blenks** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:40 pm

One hit me on the arm riding home after picking up a new bike some time ago. I was'nt sure what it was at first just know it almost took my hand off the bars. Passed the same spot a couple of days later going back to the dealers and there it was in the gutter DEAD!!!!

#24 Post by **mangocrazy** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:44 pm

blenks wrote:One hit me on the arm riding home after picking up a new bike some time ago. I was'nt sure what it was at first just know it almost took my hand off the bars. Passed the same spot a couple of days later going back to the dealers and there it was in the gutter DEAD!!!!

What? A Møøse?

That's proper 'ard...

blenks · #25 Post by **blenks** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:50 pm

Yeh this moose flew out of a bush straight at me. I know it was a moose cause of the markings on its feathers. Must have only been a young un though otherwise it might have hurt.

scorpio24v · #26 Post by **scorpio24v** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:12 am

blenks wrote:One hit me on the arm riding home after picking up a new bike some time ago. I was'nt sure what it was at first just know it almost took my hand off the bars. Passed the same spot a couple of days later going back to the dealers and there it was in the gutter DEAD!!!!

Not Speckled jim was it, the generals favorite?

k1w1boy · #27 Post by **k1w1boy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:31 am

.... back in NZ I often hit rabbits on my first bike, a Suzuki GN250, usually in pairs. I'd also brought home dead birds ('waxeyes') in the front flap of my leather jacket. Oddly enough, some of my scarier/messy roadkill experiences on a bike have been with insects. In Japan in the summer down a particularly dark, rice field bordered lane I had to travel home on from a friends place I sometimes ran into stag and rhinoceros beetles: about the size of a golfball and like being egged (yuk). Similarly, but scary rather than messy, in the sit-up-and-beg riding position I've had on a couple of bikes insects sometimes sweep up inside the helmet (admittedly usually dead) and there's nothing like that blurry flash of yellow and black in your peripheral vision to make you worry slightly. Was bitten on the back of the neck by a horsefly (I'm told) riding in Canada a few years ago - felt like I'd been stabbed.