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Old Sep 16th, 2009 | 10:48 PM
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Close encounter of the kangaroo kind

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin

Not sure of any of the surrounding facts but there have been fires in the area over the last few weeks and maybe the animal came into town looking for a feed of fresh green grass.
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Old Sep 17th, 2009 | 05:05 AM
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Saltuarius,

I feel slighted - the only thing that comes into my office is the UPS man...how boring.

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Old Sep 18th, 2009 | 03:13 PM
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My wife was greeted by a two metre Brown Treesnake when she took the compost out one recent evening. It lives in the ceiling and had been moving out across the bush house and over the bin to begin its night of hunting. As she lifted the lid the snake rose up in her face to see what was disturbing its journey. Both escaped unharmed!

I have lots of things visit my 'office' but usually outside the door.
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Old Sep 18th, 2009 | 05:21 PM
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Being in the music business I'm quite used to having snakes and sharks in my office ;-) ... but we don't have too many kangaroos in Nashville.
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Old Sep 18th, 2009 | 06:45 PM
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This nearby encounter was reported in the international press earlier this year -

http://tinyurl.com/ddwxss

('Man wrestles crazed ninja kangaroo after it invades family home')

And since then we have had a kangaroo bound in to a local car dealer's showroom as he was chatting up a potential foreign customer (probably from the local diplomatic community).

But apart from that, our main contact is either on the roads at night (with tragic consequences for the roos and lots of work for vehicle repairers and insurers) or walking in the early morning or late afternoon among the mobs of roos minding their own business in the reserves on our suburban fringes (never too far from anywhere here in Canberra).

Songdoc - Sydneysiders are usually more concerned about the sharks on Parramatta Road, the old main drag and car dealing strip from the city to the western suburbs, than at the beaches.
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