Did you know that in 1999 the mighty Kangas' (ie North melbourne Football Club - the Kangaroos) won the Grand Final, the AFL Premiership.
It was sweet too.
Carn'a Kangas.
They have been called the Kangas for as long as the club has existed, which is 125 years I think.
Thats pretty funny, and so's this:
thought that was an "Urban Myth", but according to snopes
(fact or fiction site) Its mostly true..
http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.htm Except that what they fired at the chopper is much funnier than SAM's
"[S]ince we were not at that stage interested in weapons, we had not
set any weapon or projectile types, so what the kangaroos fired at us
was in fact the default object for the simulation, which happened to
be large multicoloured beachballs."
cool!
But kangaroos are ubiquitous in this country, and they are iconic. It wouldn't be that hard to dredge up any number of stories about kangaroos. Funny stories too.
And not so funny ones.
Killer kangaroos ... big ones can kill you, they can lean back on heir tails and disembowel you if you are unlucky. I knew a guy who was a truckie, he saw a motorbike rider hit by a roo on an outback highway. They guy managed to swing his legs up, so he was sitting on the bike as it slid down the road. Instead of being underneath it or on the ground. Unfortunately the friction from the slide wore the fuel tank away, and the rider got up off his bike (probably thinking he was the luckiest guy on earth) the fuel ignited and blew his legs off. He died from blood loss and internal injuries.
This stuff happens alot, it might also be worth checking out whether or not there was a Kangaroo cull going on anywhere at the time. there might have been and if so, IMO it would make a much better disinfo story. Shooting kangaroos with guns on a mass scale would certainly distract from shooting Steve Kangas with a gun...
BTW Steve Kangas was shot in Feb I think, and the Grand Final was in September.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:42 am
