A new menace on our highways.

[DickyOZ]

#1 Beware of feral cars eating livestock.


Also watch out for Ned Kelly's cat

[John 2]

Good to have a laugh first thing in the morning.

[Shadowman]

Nice ones.

[IzzieK]

Thanks Richard...I am still trying to figure out what that 'cat' is...it does not look like that thief from Invercargil years ago...I better tell Ken (UCCI) to make sure his pet animals are not meandering out his property...I have not seen that sign before..

[Wavelength]

I pray someone would remove that tin from its face.....

[Donald]

What is actual meaning of the sign. I can't work it out. I take it that the strange creatures with the body of a cow, the head of a horse with a little flick of hair al la 1950s rockers, do not eat cars.

[MrB]

Is it a Morris Cowley?

Philip

[LePetomane]

I had an antelope bounce off my car a few days ago. He rolled over a few times and ran away.

The signs here say to watch for deer. They say nothing about antelope.

[bnnrcn]

[Rita]

[DickyOZ]

Thanks Richard...I am still trying to figure out what that 'cat' is...it does not look like that thief from Invercargil years ago...I better tell Ken (UCCI) to make sure his pet animals are not meandering out his property...I have not seen that sign before..

Hi Izzie,

The cat had got its head stuck in a can - it just reminded me of Ned Kelly in his improvised armour.

[DickyOZ]

I pray someone would remove that tin from its face.....

I did indeed remove the can Nandakumar, but no one will thank me for it, feral cats are a dreadful menace in that part of Australia they take a terrible toll of native wildlife.

[DickyOZ]

What is actual meaning of the sign. I can't work it out. I take it that the strange creatures with the body of a cow, the head of a horse with a little flick of hair al la 1950s rockers, do not eat cars.

The sign is simply to warn the road is unfenced and there will be livestock wandering on it. Cars come off second best, while Mac Trucks provide a feast for raptors and ravens. At dawn and dusk cattle are very hard to see on the road (even in the beam of headlamps) and have no road sense. From Emerald to Cloncurry there were dead Roos every 50 metres and quite a few dead bovines, a few feral pigs and even a couple of donkeys.

[Tronhard]

When I was living in Australia I got used to seeing cars with some heavy duty steel framing in front of the front bumper. Called "bull or 'roo bars" they were ostensibly to protect the car from a collision with these heavy animals. Fair enough, the engine frame tends to knock the animal into a roll that see it hitting the windscreen and often collapsing it with unfortunate results for the occupants. I took a photo (now sadly lost), taken in a remote, small hamlet of a Rolls Royce car, with bull bars and the back seat filled with hay bales!

On the other hand most of these bars were on cars in the cities suggesting that they were probably less for collisions with wildlife in the wild than to defeat the crumple zones and effectively armouring the front of the car in a collision with another vehicle!

I had a collision with a deer while living on Vancouver Island many years ago. I was driving late in the evening on a remote, sunken road when a deer literally bounded down from the same side as my car. Hitting it was inevitable, but I was saved by the fact that it was already springing up. My car still caught it and flipped it just over the top of the vehicle and it landed on the road behind. Of course I stopped and found the poor creature panting and with blood trickling from its mouth - I felt like I had killed Bambi! Too heavy to move (and watching for flaying hooves) I put an emergency flashing light and triangle on the road in front of it and went to the nearest police station to report the event (as was required) - this was the prehistoric era before mobiles. By the time we got to the scene the deer had gone but my light and triangle were there. Either it recovered and took off or someone with a truck took advantage of a road kill bonus, I always hoped for the former...

[NorthernFocus]

Even with signage you folks speak a different brand of English down there

[Tronhard]

Even with signage you folks speak a different brand of English down there

As do you folks up there! LOL!!!