O.T. Targan misbehaving...AGAIN

[mikeo80]

Saw this on my local TV station. To good to pass up.

Enjoy

http://www.wral.com/news/national_wo.../#/vid11687717

My $0.02

Mike

[Jason Weiser]

He'll be fine. They're releasing him into the wild in a day or two they said...

[Cdnwolf]

Targan or the kangaroo?

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Targan or the kangaroo?

Dose it matter, I would think the kangroo would smell better

[bobcat]

how is targan misbehaving newsworthy.
on a related note is there a dash ten for care and feeding of a kangaroo assassin?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by bobcat

how is targan misbehaving newsworthy.

Believe me, when I misbehave it's newsworthy

Meh, kangaroos probably seem exotic and exciting to people in other parts of the world but they're no big deal here (unles you hit one with your car or one tries to kill your dog). Many of the golf courses in my city have a resident mob of kangaroos living on them.

As long as there's a bit of bush for them to shelter in at night roos will happily cross the urban-rural interface into the suburbs to feed. They basically fill a similar ecological niche to deer or antelope but they're not as smart. Marsupials in general are pretty stupid.

On a slight tangent, I feel I should point out that in my profile pic you can only see me from the waist up. I'm an Australian-New Zealand duel citizen so I'm actually a kangaroo-kiwi hybrid .

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Targan

Marsupials in general are pretty stupid.

On a slight tangent, I feel I should point out that in my profile pic you can only see me from the waist up.

You trying to tell us something?
Limited intellect and hung like a bird...?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

You trying to tell us something?
Limited intellect and hung like a bird...?

Well, I won't deny that the universe can have a cruel sense of humour. That's why I live my life vicariously through friends like you, Leg

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Targan

(unles you hit one with your car or one tries to kill your dog). .

What, do they hunt dogs???? Never heard of such a thing.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by weswood

What, do they hunt dogs???? Never heard of such a thing.

Not quite hunt, but larger kangaroos (particularly males and especially large male Red Kangaroos) will often defend themselves against dogs rather than flee.

Attacks on humans are rare but do occasionally occur. Kangaroos have large, strong claws on their hind feet and in a fight will lean back on their tail and strike with both feet, to devastating effect. Humans and other animals can be disembowled in such attacks. It's this sort of attack that male kangaroos use against each other to establish dominance, but they have extremely tough hide down their chests and abdomens that usually prevents major injury.

I've also heard of one case (from a credible source) of a kangaroo being chased by a dog into the water at the edge of a lake and when the dog entered the water the roo trod on the dog's head and held it under the surface until it drowned. The dog's owner had to revive their unfortunate pet after scaring the roo away.

[Legbreaker]

I had a brilliant roo dog (German Shepherd) a couple of decades ago - taught himself to attack from the rear and avoid those VICIOUS hind legs. Of course he did have to learn the hard way after being nearly disemboweled when he was young.

[weswood]

Wow, even Australian animals are crazy.

[Targan]

This is what I'm talking about:

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Targan

This is what I'm talking about:

It's like furry raptors on pogo sticks.

[bobcat]

im thinking go to australia, weaponise the wildlife, and take over the world.
(and maybe grab a couple of drinks while im there)

[kato13]

im thinking go to australia, weaponise the wildlife, and take over the world

Emu_War

Summarizing the culls, ornithologist Dominic Serventy commented:
"The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.[11] ”

On 8 November, representatives in the Australian House of Representatives discussed the operation.[6] Following the negative coverage of the events in the local media,[12] which included claims that "only a few" emus had died,[4] Pearce withdrew the military personnel and the guns on 8 November.[4][6][13][14]

After the withdrawal, Major Meredith compared the emus to Zulus, and commented on the striking maneuverability of the emus, even while badly wounded.
"If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world...They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop.[15]"

[Targan]

That emu cull happened in the Wheatbelt a few hundreds kilometres from where I live. Emus may be tough but they're also annoyingly stupid creatures. When startled they will always run in the direction with the least resistance, so if you startle one on a road with your car they just run down the road ahead of your car for miles and miles.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by bobcat

im thinking go to australia, weaponise the wildlife, and take over the world.

Most of the wildlife already is weaponised. Take the multitude of deadly poisonous snakes and spiders, the kangaroo as previously mentioned, Tasmanian devil with teeth nasty enough to shred flesh in a heartbeat (not to mention their rather substandard hygiene - they eat a LOT of roadkill), and of course we just can't go past the terror of the forest, the blood thirsty drop bears.
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear
http://www.dropbearaware.com/
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...HilxYhxeF_I1mw

[bobcat]

imagine an army of kangaroo's with MP5's sweeping through the kremlin though.

[Targan]

Well today I'm allowed to misbehave because it's Halloween which is also MY BIRTHDAY! Yay!

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Targan

Well today I'm allowed to misbehave because it's Halloween which is also MY BIRTHDAY! Yay!

Happy Birth Day to Targan!!

so to commorate the occasion......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqolSvoWNck

My $0.02

Mike

[Targan]

Today was also the anniversary of the famous charge of the Australian Light Horsemen at Beersheba, Palestine in 1917: Battle of Beersheba (1917)

We Australians like to refer to it as history's last great cavalry charge but the Light Horse Regiments were really mounted infantry. Still, it must have scared the hell out of the Ottoman Turks, seeing hundreds of Aussie horsemen charging at them with their foot-long bayonets in their hands like swords.

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by Targan

That emu cull happened in the Wheatbelt a few hundreds kilometres from where I live. Emus may be tough but they're also annoyingly stupid creatures. When startled they will always run in the direction with the least resistance, so if you startle one on a road with your car they just run down the road ahead of your car for miles and miles.

So you could overtake it and whack it with a showel from the pick up window?

happy birthday!

[Jason Weiser]

Originally Posted by Targan

Today was also the anniversary of the famous charge of the Australian Light Horsemen at Beersheba, Palestine in 1917: Battle of Beersheba (1917)

We Australians like to refer to it as history's last great cavalry charge but the Light Horse Regiments were really mounted infantry. Still, it must have scared the hell out of the Ottoman Turks, seeing hundreds of Aussie horsemen charging at them with their foot-long bayonets in their hands like swords.

Ahem...with all due respect to the Light Horse, but these fellas might disagree...vehemently.

http://www.uscavalry.org/USCA-LastChargePrint.pdf

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Jason Weiser

Ahem...with all due respect to the Light Horse, but these fellas might disagree...vehemently.

Well that was bound to happen, wasn't it

Before making any sweeping statement on this board one (such as myself) would do well to at least make a cursory web search. Thanks for schooling me, Jason.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

And further to that, the Italians and the Poles both have a claim to cavalry charges later in WW2 although the Poles were fighting for the USSR and so this charge doesn't appear to be celebrated in Poland today.

Following is from Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_(warfare)

Battle of Bataan (January 16, 1942): US 26th Cavalry Regiment makes a mounted pistol charge against Japanese positions, the last mounted charge in battle by conventional United States troops.

Eastern Front, World War II, (August 24, 1942): The last cavalry charge against a regular enemy army of Italian history happened in Izbušenskij. It was mounted against a Soviet artillery position along the River Don by 700 men of the Italian 3rd 'Savoia' Cavalry Regiment. This is often reported as "the last successful cavalry charge in history".
Article about this charge can be found here http://www.history.com/news/the-last...e-70-years-ago

Battle of Poloj (October 17, 1942): The last charge of an Italian horse regiment during WWII. It was executed in Yugoslavia by the 14th Light Cavalry Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria" versus Communist partisans.

Battle of Borujsko (Schönfeld in German) was the last charge of the Polish 1st Cavalry Brigade just before the end of WWII. On March 1, 1945, it attacked the German lines in support of Soviet Forces. The charge was successful.

So we Aussies might want to claim the last horse charge in history but it definitely aint ours to claim - March 1945, the Poles have it!

[bobcat]

and back on topic how much trouble are targan and his pet emu actually capable of getting into?

[Legbreaker]

Targan can probably get into plenty of trouble all on his own, after all, if emu's are smart enough to be elected mayor of a town...
Yes, it actually happened way back in the early 80's (can't for the life of me remember which town it was though).

Edit: It was Camooweal in Queensland (trust the Queenslanders to elect an emu - these are people who don't want daylight saving because they're afraid the extra hour of sunshine will fade their curtains!)
Thanks go to my mother and her amazing memory (30 years after visiting the place).