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GULP!!
Reminds me of the time I took the kids to Windsor Safari Park.
Had just bought a brand new Simca estate prior to a posting in Berlin.
We joined the queue and were driving through the monkey enclosure,we stopped a few yards behind the car in front when this bloody baboon came round the back of the car and started to unscrew and tear apart the rear lights, another one jumped on the bonnet of another and ripped the wipers off. I thought "my new car", I don't think I ran over any as I overtook everything and got out of there quick.
When we got to the main gate I noticed a large bin at the side of the road, it was stuffed with bits off cars.
Had just bought a brand new Simca estate prior to a posting in Berlin.
We joined the queue and were driving through the monkey enclosure,we stopped a few yards behind the car in front when this bloody baboon came round the back of the car and started to unscrew and tear apart the rear lights, another one jumped on the bonnet of another and ripped the wipers off. I thought "my new car", I don't think I ran over any as I overtook everything and got out of there quick.
When we got to the main gate I noticed a large bin at the side of the road, it was stuffed with bits off cars.
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At my Aunties place in Durban she had a couple of hudge trees in the back garden.home to about 16 monkeys who used to terrorise her ford cortina daily and us kids swimming in the pool. they can make loads of noise and when 15 of em rush you it can be a little tense.They also had a favorite game of throwing left overs from the trees ,unfortunatly the pool was right there near the two trees so guess who was the target. 
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"F*** them if they can’t take a joke"
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I used to go to a Safari Park in Germany, it was always fun to watch the monkeys tear the tour buses and expensive cars to shreds from the comfort of our knackered old banger, which for some reason never seemed to attract the cavalcade of chimpesque destruction. Perhaps they thought they couldnt wreck our car any more?
I used to go to a Safari Park in Germany, it was always fun to watch the monkeys tear the tour buses and expensive cars to shreds from the comfort of our knackered old banger, which for some reason never seemed to attract the cavalcade of chimpesque destruction. Perhaps they thought they couldnt wreck our car any more?
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Hey Bootneck
Those tablets you are taking to stop you posting on MF seem to have had the opposite effect, and given you literary diarrhoea!
You haven't produced a post as long as that in centuries; and only one 'farking'...... most impressive.
Is this now a competition with Artist to see who can quit the forum the most times, and in doing so generate the most 'Don't do it, we love you' posts?
I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away Trev, it's compulsive.
Aye, Derek
Those tablets you are taking to stop you posting on MF seem to have had the opposite effect, and given you literary diarrhoea!
You haven't produced a post as long as that in centuries; and only one 'farking'...... most impressive.
Is this now a competition with Artist to see who can quit the forum the most times, and in doing so generate the most 'Don't do it, we love you' posts?
I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away Trev, it's compulsive.
Aye, Derek
Animals all varieties
Ex zoo keeper here. Animals are a great part and love of my life.I enjoyed your post bootneck on here and the others.
Speaking of West midland Safari Park, I was visiting that park myself just a few months ago for the first time in years. I'm very familiar with Mark O'shea as I watch the Discovery Channel a lot on cable tv, which has got some brilliant wildlife documentaries and other subjects including the Military of course.
When I first visited West midland Safari Park a few years ago with my other half there used to be a lot of Rhesus Monkeys, which would descend on the cars passing through the enclosure. Ours was no exception and we watched in horrified fascination whilst these little 'monkeys' slowly but deliberately dismantled our windscreen wipers!
The gargage we drove into on the way home for repairs guessed immediately where we'd been visiting.
Sadly the whole troup of Rhesus Monkeys at West Midland and a couple of other Safari Parks were put to sleep because a few contracted (I think it was Hepatitis), which of course can be passed on to humans.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence....
I live not to far away from Knowsely Safari Park. Last year my mum and younger brother went there for the day. Later on, my brother phoned the house and told my dad that the car (a Ford Focus) had been hit by a rhino. My dad just laughed it off, thinking that he was having a laugh. An hour later, my mum arrived home and was shaking like mad and couldnt put together a sentance. It turned out that two rhinos were having a fight and one of them walked backwards towards the car. There was no room for my mum to drive, because of cars infront and behind, and the rhino actually walked into the side of the car just infornt of the passanger side door. My borther was sitting there and, shitting himself, jumped straight into the back of the car. My mum started to panic and just put her hand on the horn so that the park keepers came to sort things out. They got out safely but the car was dented in at the sides, the wing mirror and window were gone and the door became stuck in place. If my brother stayed were he was he would have probably got cut quite a bit by the glass. Luckily the park owners offered to pay for the damage otherwise the insurance company would have never believed it.
Apparantly, getting hit by rhinos is quite common although they usually just brush against the side of the car. I just couldnt stop laughing although my mum was shocked for a few days afterwards. About a month later a lorry took off the same wing mirror and scratched the entire side of the car on a main road. That didnt bother her as much as getting hit by a rhino and she hasnt been back since. I even offered to take my borther there during the summer holidays but he didnt want to back either, at least in anything but a tank and I only drive a fiesta.
Apparantly, getting hit by rhinos is quite common although they usually just brush against the side of the car. I just couldnt stop laughing although my mum was shocked for a few days afterwards. About a month later a lorry took off the same wing mirror and scratched the entire side of the car on a main road. That didnt bother her as much as getting hit by a rhino and she hasnt been back since. I even offered to take my borther there during the summer holidays but he didnt want to back either, at least in anything but a tank and I only drive a fiesta.
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Harhar got you there, hasn't he, you c*nt? Hee hee heeRotary Booty wrote:Hey Bootneck
Those tablets you are taking to stop you posting on MF seem to have had the opposite effect, and given you literary diarrhoea!
You haven't produced a post as long as that in centuries; and only one 'farking'...... most impressive.
Is this now a competition with Artist to see who can quit the forum the most times, and in doing so generate the most 'Don't do it, we love you' posts?
I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away Trev, it's compulsive.
Aye, Derek
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Flight delayed from Kenya, so they took us on a coach to Niarobi National Park.
We had been driving around for quite a while and the only animals we seen were in the distance so we asked the driver if he could get closer to of them. It was a hot day [not that it mattered] so we had a "few" beers on board.
The driver told us to be quiet and cruised down this track and there was a semi circle of cars and in front of them a lion and lioness. It didn't take long before we got bored whatching them, when suddenly the lion gets up and gives the lioness "one". There was a bloody great cheer from the coach and the and the two were last seen heading for the horizon.
The people in the cars were not impressed, apparently they had been waiting for hours for the event.
I think I seen more animals at Windsor than I did in Kenya.
We had been driving around for quite a while and the only animals we seen were in the distance so we asked the driver if he could get closer to of them. It was a hot day [not that it mattered] so we had a "few" beers on board.
The driver told us to be quiet and cruised down this track and there was a semi circle of cars and in front of them a lion and lioness. It didn't take long before we got bored whatching them, when suddenly the lion gets up and gives the lioness "one". There was a bloody great cheer from the coach and the and the two were last seen heading for the horizon.
The people in the cars were not impressed, apparently they had been waiting for hours for the event.
I think I seen more animals at Windsor than I did in Kenya.
