Dear Fellow Motorist

"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
07/08/2018 at 01:28 • Filed to: Roadkill

Eastern Grey Kangaroo...like the one I had to finish off

I don’t know who you are or were, what the circumstances were, what your excuse was or what ever you were thinking...

But thankyou very fucking much. As a result of your fear, laziness, annoyance or just couldn’t give a fuckance...I had to clean up your mess.

You know that kangaroo that you struck out there on the Purlie Road at some stage this morning...I’m sure it was annoying and all but it’s not like it damaged your vehicle since there weren’t bits of it lying around. Anyway, that one.

Well you didn’t kill it. All you managed to do was break both its legs and leave it lying in the table drain. For hours...

We spotted it this afternoon and went back for it. I had to catch it, hold it down and beat it to death with a wheel brace that wasn’t exactly fit for purpose . How much fun do you think that was?

As for everyone else that drove past it during the day...none of you are very much better.

If you are involved in an animal strike then make every effort possible to ensure the animal involved is either deceased, finished off humanely or placed into appreciate care. I don’t care how unpleasant o r inconvenient you find that experience...just get it done.

Otherwise, you are no better in my mind than a terrorist or pond scum.

DISCUSSION (9)

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
07/08/2018 at 09:30

Remind me to never mess with an Australian.

“Their equivalent of Flipper is a kangaroo named Skippy.”

“They also beat kangaroos to death with tire irons.”

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/08/2018 at 09:40

Just don't find yourself helpless on the side of the road with two broken legs. Otherwise you'll be fine!

shop-teacher > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
07/08/2018 at 09:47

Gadamn!

BJ > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
07/08/2018 at 09:53

Oof... tough stuff. It takes a strong constitution to take care of an animal like that. Good on you.

Just a question: Would the police or wildlife service not have come out to shoot (or otherwise euthanize) the animal?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > BJ
07/08/2018 at 10:24

It shames me to say I felt like I was beating it to death but knew I’d killed it on the [deityfuckit] second blow...exc ept the properly dead blow was the eighth. Same age as the young bloke who watched me do it...

As for would anyone have come out instead...in terms of police, no. Wildlife service? I cringe some what to say they were extremely close by. Vet? Eventually but it’s a big ask on a Sunday. Ultimately, it’s why I’m pissed off. This is such a common event in current drought situations that any realistic and humanitarian country folk should be able to deal with this situation themselves...

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
07/08/2018 at 10:46

But people that can beat Skippy to death by the side of the road are pretty terrifying, you must admit.

I can’t envision even a Floridian beating Flipper to death with a tire iron.

There’s also the descendants of criminals aspect.*

(* Please don’t take offense, they transported a lot of people to the Americas as well and I’m likely descended from at least a handful of them.)

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/08/2018 at 18:19

I'm not terrifying. Merely pragmatic. In the end, this was far from the first roo that has perished at my hand. And it was doomed in any case... I was simply a faster form of doom.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
07/08/2018 at 22:12

I do understand why you did it, but I suspect you’d have a hard time finding an American that would not use a gun for this task.

I’m impressed that you did what really was the most humane thing.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/09/2018 at 03:22

Yeah the gun thing is interesting. Even if I was licenced to own a firearm and had one handy ...I wouldn’t have been able to use it as discharging a firearm in or from a public place (such as a public road) is illegal. As is transporting a firearm in a fire able state (as in bolt in place and loaded magazine also in place).

I would have preferred using a knife to be honest ...but there wasn’t one in the car.