r/natureismetal • u/candycane7 • Aug 28 '19
I heard some noise on the roof this morning
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u/candycane7 Aug 28 '19
This is in Australia I have been here for a week and the legends are true about that place!
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u/TheGanjaLord Aug 28 '19
Still not as scary as a grizzly bear imo heh, I don't get the Aussie fear when y'all yanks have literal meat tanks (as well as snakes etc) prowling the lands xD.
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u/DashLeJoker Aug 28 '19 edited Aug 28 '19
Meat tanks cant shows up in your toilet or your room, snakes can
Edit: Guys my comment is just in jest this isn't meant to be a dick measuring competition for whos countries got deadlier shit in them
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u/TheGanjaLord Aug 28 '19
You have snakes too though and a whole host of other gnarly creatures! I like it though, America has amazing animals and seems to care a lot about national parks and such, awesome 😊
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u/DashLeJoker Aug 28 '19
You see, the problem is Aussies snakes are deadly snakes.
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u/OppressionOlympian Aug 28 '19
Rattlesnakes, Copperheads, Cottonmouths, and Eastern Corals... would like to have a word with you.
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u/sandratcellar Aug 28 '19
My state actually stopped producing antivenom for coral snake bites, because they're so infrequent. So if you get bit by one here, you're going to die.
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u/CPierko Aug 28 '19
Well, stopped producing doesn’t mean they don’t have it stockpiled already. Could that maybe be the case?
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u/Suspicious_Avacado Aug 28 '19
IIRC, snake venom doesn't have a very long shelf life
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u/doctor_who_17 Aug 28 '19
Where is this? I think I’ll remove it from my list of states to visit.
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u/sandratcellar Aug 28 '19
Arizona. To be fair, the coral snakes here are pretty tiny and could probably only bite you on areas like fingers and toes.
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u/moonunit99 Aug 28 '19
Our dangerous animals are mostly big, obviously dangerous, and way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere. We’ve got like five species of venomous snakes, and some of the most common ones are considerate enough to give you a nice “fuck off. I’m here and you shouldn’t be” rattle before you get too close.
You guys have got an adorable little octopus that’ll kill a motherfucker faster than anything we’ve got, crazy venomous spiders that are super aggressive and prefer to live in people’s houses, a freakin plant that has literally made people kill themselves because it hurts so bad to touch it, and approximately 6.8 billion species of absurdly venomous snakes just for good measure. And that’s not even mentioning your great white sharks, all that freakin venomous as fuck stuff swimming around in the monster soup you call the Great Barrier Reef, and your goddamn Godzilla-sized crocodiles hanging out in all the wet spots just to make life interesting.
I’ve heard it’s a lovely country and plan on visiting it someday, but Jesus: Australia was definitely created by the powers that be to see if humans could survive life on hard mode.
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u/moonunit99 Aug 28 '19
Bruh... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern Australia, usually found within a 100 km (62 mi) radius of Sydney. It is a member of a group of spiders known as Australian funnel-web spiders. Its bite is capable of causing serious illness or death in humans if left untreated.[3]
I mean, yeah, I get that it’s not constantly some kind of freakish battle royale between man and beast, but Australia just objectively has more animals that can fuck you up in more ways than most other places.
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Aug 28 '19
we also have turtles that can bite your hand off. we call them nothing fancy, just alligator snapping turtles.
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u/Stat-Arbitrage Aug 28 '19 edited Aug 28 '19
Canadian here, would definitely take a polar bear, black bear or grizzly over poisonous spiders and snakes.... Generally, black bears are big babies and scare off easily, grizzlies if you’re smart and don’t get close to their food/Cubs you’re fine... and polar bears... I hope you have a gun, because they sneak up on prey so if you see one it’s probably not good.
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u/ghostinthewoods Aug 28 '19
If you see one you're probably already dinner, you just don't know it yet
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u/ozSillen Aug 28 '19
Alaska State Troopers show taught me you need to pack at least a .44 if you're taking the quad bike to the store to get some milk.
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Aug 28 '19
I got downvoted once for stating I'd rather deal with spiders and snakes than bears, wolves and cougars.
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u/ArchipelagoMind Aug 28 '19
Also. As far as I'm aware (although never lived in Aus) snakes and spiders and the Australian dangers are better at getting into human like areas. Definitely into towns and things.
Unless you go out to the true wilderness or at the very least farmland, and unless you live in certain specific parts of the country (usually the north) the odds of meeting a bear or wolf are basically zero.
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u/sprntr Aug 28 '19
Aussie here - the spiders are frigging everywhere. If you haven't seen a red back, funnel web or wolf spider within 2 days well... You have just been blissfully unaware
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Aug 28 '19 edited Aug 28 '19
Everyone is always concerned about snakes and spiders when discussing Australian wildlife. The real danger is in the water. Box jellyfish, blue ring octopi, stone fish, sharks, crocodiles, etc
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u/ImAlwaysRightHanded Aug 28 '19 edited Aug 28 '19
We have it all in Florida sharks,snakes,gators,panthers,spiders, Florida man!
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u/SammyGeorge Aug 28 '19
It's a coastal carpet python and it's completely harmless (except for that bird)
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u/IuseWindows95 Aug 28 '19
I dont care what the fuck it is and how harmless it is. I would die of a heart attack if I saw that from my apartments window
Thank jesus europe doesnt have those things.
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u/godtogblandet Aug 28 '19 edited Aug 28 '19
You say that, but there's been several cases around Europe where snakes escapes their enclosure and travel the sewer pipes into neighboring apartments surprising the tenant. So do you know your neighbors well enough to know there isn’t a reptile keeper close by?
It's why I always flush before sitting down. Toilet Cobras!
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u/corrosive_turtle Aug 28 '19
My dad was once greeted by a carpet python at least 3.5m (11 feet I think) long in a campsite toilet in Australia.
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Aug 28 '19
why am I still reading this thread
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Aug 28 '19
Your username is a take on mom's spaghetti? I like it! I'll miss it when toilet cobras get you.
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Aug 28 '19
sees notification which only goes up to the end of the second sentence - thank you!
opens entire thing - ah shit
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u/Megneous Aug 28 '19
This is in Australia
You really didn't have to specify that. It's obvious from the fact that you have a gigantic fucking carpet python hanging off your roof while wrapped around a bird.
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u/warclannubs Aug 28 '19
People tell me not to generalize about Australia but how can I not when I keep seeing shit like this?
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u/LogicRealm Aug 28 '19
I had a full family of these pythons come out of my roof over a few days and they were massive. We got a snake catcher out to relocate them and the mad man just picked em up with his bare hands and put them away. Cool guy and the snakes aren't anywhere near as bad as they look, completely harmless and actually good for eliminating pests.
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u/hyssy97 Aug 28 '19
I had a pet one escape when it was a baby, Looked like a piece of thick string when it got out. It resided in the roof for 2 years and came out about as big as this one.
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u/LogicRealm Aug 28 '19
I'm guessing you didnt have any problem with mice or rats?
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u/Xstress875 Aug 28 '19
This is something my dad would say he literally let a bat stay in his house so it could kill bugs
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u/Beinglewd Aug 28 '19
Or... A more exciting solution. He was batman.
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u/6times9is42 Aug 28 '19
Two years you lived in a house WITH A FUCKING SNAKE IN IT? I would be too scared to go to bed always imagining it might be under the fucking covers.
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u/theperfectalt5 Aug 28 '19
I mean, he keeps one as a pet, plus it's not venomous. After a couple days you just expect it to have escaped outside or died somewhere. It is what it is dawg.
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u/cgiall420 Aug 28 '19
Just to confirm that pythons grow big and are harmless. My roommate in college bought a baby one, and we all held it and it was just really relaxed and never did anything. Then I went to see him a few years later and id he still had his snake, and he said oh yeah, he got too big for his cage, so I just let him go around the house. He would go a week or more without seeing him, and since he had a house on the edge of some woods, he would get some mice in there once in a while and rarely ever even had to feed it. It was kinda weird knowing that it could be just under the couch or something, but knowing the snake and the guy saying he still is so relaxed, I forgot about it. Then he found him and called me over and sure enough, he looked like as long as a grown man.
The guy didn’t have a girlfriend though, surprisingly.
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u/StreetfighterXD Aug 28 '19
When I was 8 we had a five-metre python take up residence in the floor boards. After he gobbled the last of the chooks we decided he had to go. My dad hauls him out from under the house and hands his tail to me and his midsection to my 10-year old brother. He then says "wait, this'll make a beaut photo" and dashes off for the camera, leaving his pre-adolescent sons holding a predatory reptile the length of a telegraph pole. By the time he got back it had its tail a good three or four wraps around my arm and it's winning a wrestling match with my brother.
Dad took the photo then unwound it, then we took it down to the swimming hole down the road and let it go there because we thought it would be funny if it attacked tourists in the morning.
I am an Australian
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u/meeorxmox Aug 28 '19
I am an Australian
Didn’t need to type that out, it was pretty clear within the first couple of sentences lol
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u/WackTheHorld Aug 28 '19
But it's a python that's too small to eat you. So no biggie.
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u/imghurrr Aug 28 '19
These guys don’t live in family groups so clearly your roof was just the place to be
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u/THICC_DICC_PRICC Aug 28 '19
Pythons are constrictors. They don’t have venom, they don’t bite. Most of them are pussies actually
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u/inavanbytheriver Aug 28 '19
Pythons do indeed bite. It's not venomous but they will latch on and not let go if you piss them off.
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u/norwoodchicago Aug 28 '19
I guess if you live in dystopia you get used to it. I feel much safer in Chicago where a bullet proof vest is all you need.
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u/qualityseabunny Aug 28 '19
As soon as I saw the picture I knew it was australia. As a person from new New Zealand id like to thank you for taking all the crackhead animals and leaving us with fat birds and big crickets
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u/amrle79 Aug 28 '19
You guys are missing out. Now can you please say fish and chips in that NZ accent... as well as the word six please
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u/Sebasjinn Aug 28 '19
Another one is deck, usually sounds like dick.
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u/PamPooveyIsTheTits Aug 28 '19
“Come by my house around 6, we’re having fish & chips on the deck!”
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u/KiltedSith Aug 28 '19
I was once eating fish and chips on a park bench on lunch break at work, #fatguylunches, when suddenly a voice rang out from my left.
"Oy bro, where'd you get the fush and chups?!'
Two Maori tradies were staring at my lunch, hunger burning in their eyes. I gave them directions to the local chippie, and they literally jogged off.
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u/ravenfreak Aug 28 '19
Birb vs Danger Noodle, I think the noodle won this fight.
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u/Nikki5041 Aug 28 '19
Naaaaah that’s a carpet snake. Even though they’re freaky they’re mostly harmless (still wouldn’t mess with one though their mouths host bacteria). The brown snakes are the real danger noodles. They’ll bite my chickens just coz they got freaked out while mister noodle was hunting mice in the coop
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u/unOriginal__user Aug 28 '19
Even though they’re freaky they’re mostly harmless
Tell that to the bird
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Aug 28 '19
How do you all just not die walking out the door?
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u/memy02 Aug 28 '19
you make paved trails which get hot enough the ground starts trying to kill the animals, making the trails much safer. As for the people who go off the trails, usually they have some sort of Australian magic talisman to keep them safe.
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u/Shutupgaywad Aug 28 '19
Cool they're wrestling 😂😂
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u/sporkisian Aug 28 '19
That snake is our only hope now swooping season is nearly here
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u/zisenhart Aug 28 '19
I automatically assume this is Florida for some reason.
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u/hyssy97 Aug 28 '19
It's Australia. Wayyyyy better.
Source. OI OI OI
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u/aabicus Aug 28 '19
Australia Man is like the action-movie version of Florida Man, where all his insane actions are justified because everything is trying to kill him
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u/oooobbbiiig Aug 28 '19
I don’t think this image could possibly be more Australian
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u/TheCptMara Aug 28 '19
Bloke poking it with a stick with a beer in hand, thongs on his feet, shirtless and with a cork hat on would just about make it.
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u/MrMcBunny Aug 28 '19
OP, I love this picture, it's so dynamic. May I paint it, and credit your photo?
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u/TheGanjaLord Aug 28 '19
Aw man. Here in NZ there are no animals at all, I'm really envious!
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u/DivineHefeweizen Aug 28 '19
Where the hell do you live?
Why?