THE SCARIEST THINGS ABOUT MELBOURNE AND AUSTRALIA IN GENERAL

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

, i might cancel my flight.

LOL yes it is scary but you need to be careful if you see snakes or anything don't kill them because you will get arrested but you can call the police and or a snake catcher, we take wildlife protection in Australia very seriously.

 

[jetray]

country historically populated by convicts to live in a city where gangs run rampant and apparently bikies

Well even these creatures have right to complain about the deadliest animal of planet called homosapiens that have occupied their continent.

 

[Awan68]

LOL yes it is scary but you need to be careful if you see snakes or anything don't kill them because you will get arrested but you can call the police and or a snake catcher, we take wildlife protection in Australia very seriously.

We have a similar law in Muree ,one of our hill stations, for lions, hear this, even if a lion attacks , u cant kill it or else u will be arrested if u survive, anyways let alone killing snakes or spiders, i would run in the opposite direction, insects of any kind are the bane of my existance

 

[Adonis]

It's natural to get scared from the varity of potentially dangerous species that exist here in Oz and especially for a person like you, who has not encountered much of this in your native country. But the fact is that the number of deaths caused from these creatures is way less that from others like from Hippos, Crocs or wild buffaloes in Africa.

Here is the extract

"Now let’s really get serious. Fear of Australia’s creatures shouldn’t even be a consideration. Let’s look at the facts, as at 2011 when I created this page:

• Snakes: With 41 recorded deaths between 1980 and 2009, snake deaths in Australia average out at less than two per year.
• Spiders: Nobody in Australia has died from a spider bite since 1979 after the successful introduction of antivenom for all native species.
• Sharks*: Accounted for 25 deaths between 2000 and (March) 2012 in Australia, about 2 a year.
• Crocodiles: Historically, crocodiles account for less than one death per year here in Australia, although that is increasing slightly as the crocodile population rises following the ban on crocodile hunting in 1971.
• Blue Ringed Octopus: Just 3 recorded deaths in the last century.
• Stonefish: One unconfirmed death by stonefish in 1915.
• Cone Snails: I could find no recorded deaths from cone snails in Australia whatsoever. Update:I stand corrected here. If you check the comments below, on December 22, 2016 K.Glasheen describes how Charles Garbutt, in 1935, died after being stung by a cone snail. I did find confirmation of this online, so we need to amend the figures for this critter; let’s call it one death in about 100 years.
• Killer Jellyfish: Jellyfish account for (at time of writing) 66 deaths since records began in 1883. The box jellyfish was responsible for 64 deaths, and the Irukandji the other two. It sounds a lot, but still less than one death per year, more like just half a death per year.

* Updated 5.4.12. with latest shark death figures.

There, I think I’ve covered them all. Equalising it out, Australia’s dangerous creatures kill about five people a year.

If I’ve missed anything out, got anything wrong, or if anyone has an update on these figures, please do comment below.

Australia’s worst killers!

• Here in Australia, about 20 people a year die from horse riding accidents.
• Around 10 people per year in Australia die from European Honey Bee stings after going into anaphylactic shock.
• And around 300 people a year drown.

So the best advice I would give anyone about staying safe in Australia would be nothing to do with avoiding scary creatures. It would be “swim between the flags” if you are going to take a dip in the sea.

https://www.bobinoz.com/migration-advice/australias-killer-creatures-the-truth-about-deaths/

 

[Menthol]

How can people manage to live in the world most livable city???

This is crazy! The author who made the chart of world most livable city is must be have psychology problem, racist or bribed.

 

[JSCh]

Happen to just come across this news. It does sound frightening.

Poisonous snake tries to slither through car window in Australia
Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-11 10:23:10|Editor: Zhou Xin



SYDNEY, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two motorists have recounted their shock journey with a hitchhiking snake on Thursday, after a poisonous 2.5 meter red-belly black latched onto their vehicle whilst driving on Australia's east coast.

Ted Ogier and his passenger were heading home after making a work delivery for an auto industrial supplier on Wednesday afternoon, when they realized they had an extra traveller.

"It'd come out from under the engine bay under the bonnet," Ogier told local media.

"It was probably a bit warm there."

"Then it was sort of tapping on the window a couple of times, because it obviously wanted to get in."

After snapping a few quick photos of the slithering passenger, the cool-headed driver stopped and attempted to remove snake.

"I just had a broom in the back of the ute and ... basically just got him off the car nice and safely, and just ushered him into the bushland off on the side of the road," Ogier explained.

Although the experience would have been terrifying, Ogier thinks it could have been much worse, had it been an eight-legged passenger.

"Not as frightening as getting a spider on the inside! spiders are one thing I don't like!" He said.

"But I don't like snakes much either."

https://twitter.com/x/status/951305497466073089

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

Happen to just come across this news. It does sound frightening.

Poisonous snake tries to slither through car window in Australia
Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-11 10:23:10|Editor: Zhou Xin



SYDNEY, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two motorists have recounted their shock journey with a hitchhiking snake on Thursday, after a poisonous 2.5 meter red-belly black latched onto their vehicle whilst driving on Australia's east coast.

Ted Ogier and his passenger were heading home after making a work delivery for an auto industrial supplier on Wednesday afternoon, when they realized they had an extra traveller.

"It'd come out from under the engine bay under the bonnet," Ogier told local media.

"It was probably a bit warm there."

"Then it was sort of tapping on the window a couple of times, because it obviously wanted to get in."

After snapping a few quick photos of the slithering passenger, the cool-headed driver stopped and attempted to remove snake.

"I just had a broom in the back of the ute and ... basically just got him off the car nice and safely, and just ushered him into the bushland off on the side of the road," Ogier explained.

Although the experience would have been terrifying, Ogier thinks it could have been much worse, had it been an eight-legged passenger.

"Not as frightening as getting a spider on the inside! spiders are one thing I don't like!" He said.

"But I don't like snakes much either."

https://twitter.com/x/status/951305497466073089

Happens all the time here.

 

[KAL-EL]

A kangaroo defending itself and brawling with a dingo

I remember watching video of this originally airing on one of the late great Steve Irwin's programs.

I was in total amazement at the footwork and the fisticuffs.

Of course, at the time, I was much younger and thought that dingoes looked like cute cuddly dogs. Later learning they were wild animals not meant to be pets.

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

A kangaroo defending itself and brawling with a dingo

I remember watching video of this originally airing on one of the late great Steve Irwin's programs.

I was in total amazement at the footwork and the fisticuffs.

Of course, at the time, I was much younger and thought that dingoes looked like cute cuddly dogs. Later learning they were wild animals not meant to be pets.

Roos are actually quite big and their tails alone can break a humans bones.

 

[Mista]

My cousin living in Australia said its not illegal if you bang into a kangaroo while driving?

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

My cousin living in Australia said its not illegal if you bang into a kangaroo while driving?

Nah not illegal if you are driving on the freeway and the roos jump on the road and you hit them that's just a accident but you have to be very careful, big red roos have smashed trucks killing the driver but nothing has happened to them.

Trust me you don't want to hit a roo doing 100 kmph roos stand at more than 7 feet tall, but Australia take their animal protection very seriously and if you go out of your way to kill or hurt any animals then you will be put in jail.

 

[IAKhan]

Yeah lol Perth is the same.

I am Adelaide, its normally to come across such venomous creature, though they are Australias but they dont bite mate[emoji12]

 

[Musafir117]

Nah not illegal if you are driving on the freeway and the roos jump on the road and you hit them that's just a accident but you have to be very careful, big red roos have smashed trucks killing the driver but nothing has happened to them.

Trust me you don't want to hit a roo doing 100 kmph roos stand at more than 7 feet tall, but Australia take their animal protection very seriously and if you go out of your way to kill or hurt any animals then you will be put in jail.

Stop scare people
https://www.bobinoz.com/migration-advice/australias-killer-creatures-the-truth-about-deaths/

 

[graphican]

Victoria is much safer place as compared to Queensland, where on average, you find one snake a month in your own house. One of my colleagues lived there and I asked her, when did you see snake last time and she replied "last week" - and in surprise I asked, did you kill it? And she said, no my husband put it back in the same hole where it had came from - and no one got hurt !! !! !!

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

Victoria is much safer place as compared to Queensland, where on average, you find one snake a month in your own house.

Had a brown snakes in my back yard in Melbourne a few times very dangerous had to call a snake catcher.