The shoo-roos

Yes they work - when you drive through town with the shoo- roos attached to the guards, every dog in town lifts his/her head and looks at you so the frequency has an effect.

Remember we are talking about the whistle ones not the electronic ones. I have no experience with the electronic ones.

Kangaroos, sheep and kangaroos also react in the same way as dogs. The sad thing is that when you broach a crest at 100 plus kmh in the dark you have a roo somewhere on the road that is blinded and confused. The whistle adds to the confusion and the roos are 10-15 metres in front of you.

As I said before - the bang happens. !!!

On a flat road - the whistles do make the kangaroos move well before you get there and sometimes you miss them.

tthose aussie roads sound very ttreacherous. Glad to hear that you guys wernt hurt.
Hopefully the roo will recover tolive long and peacefully, spreading the word of the dangerous black divide and speeding metal.

I hit a roo out near Broke in my Clubby Van years ago and had to limp into Maitland for repairs. I had only got the new mags (Speedy Hotwires from memory) on a couple of days before and was travelling from Richmond (up Putty Rd) to Kempsey to visit my parents. Sad day. The van still had the crease in the front left guard when I sold it although I had pulled the fur out from between the tyre and the rim. I was actually pretty impressed at how the old car stood up to the hit. By crikey it jarred. Anyway the poor old hoppy wasn't to well after but the Mini lived to fight another day.
Ziff

i think the road from braidwood to canberra has to be the worst for roos.
i was in the car with my dad and we hit one at about 80. it came from nowhere! lucky we were in the rangie and nothing really happend to the car just some blood on the sump guard. cant say the same for the roo though...

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Eddy

crap mate, glad you and your wife are ok. my cus hit a roo the other day and it killed her 03 Magna

No big loss

Glad to hear you guys are ok.
I've managed to hit a roo one in my vc commodore. I was just cruising along out near tidbinbilla when a roo jumped out from behind a sign which had grass growing up to the bottom of it and landed just as i hit it. The roo was smacked right in it's thigh and pushed back into the ditch but not before bending my bumper and smashing my passengers side headlight and grill, it also managed to bend the bonnet just slightly so when you went to close it you had to go inside the car and pull the release to shut it

One guy i knew in canberra bought a brand new xr6 turbo when they were released and on his way home got side swiped by a roo hitting every panel includind both front and rear bumpers.

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oh so sensitive...

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I know how you feel mike. I hit a roo 5 days after I bought my first mini. shattering. you lucky it wasnt the mini, mine was a tiny roo and managed to do round $1500 bucks worth of damage. obviously kangaroos were never taught by their parents how to cross a road.

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The worst thing is those 10 or 15 seconds after the bang while you roll to a stop doing a checklist of operation. You know, check the lights, brakes steering, temperature etc etc. The road from Gulgong to Gilgandra doesn't carry much traffic at the best of times and after midnight until daytime is a long time to be stranded with a immobile car.

Luckily for me, I have watched enough CSI programs to know from the blood splatter patterns along the car that the roo paid a bigger price than me.

yeah i was less than five minutes from home. so quick call to the parentals. although I could have driven home in it.
my kangaroo flopped about in the bush for a while. I did the humane thing, I beat it with a stick.

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West Aussie Mini Boys Represent...!!!

I heard a very funny thing just recently. A friend who has quite a large property came sailing around the corner and saw a city type motorist with a bent car. The motorist was standing over a very large bull which lying on the ground but was snorting and giving the occasional kick.

The motorist was also beating the bull right between the horns with a large big of wood he had pick up nearby try to do the humane thing.

My neighbour walked over to the bull with the ever trusty water container and plashed it all over the bulls face. It snorted, kicked, grunted and then stood up. It roared at them about its indignities, walked over to falling down fence wehre it got out and then jumped the fence heading towards his cows.

The best bit was look on the motorists face after he had beat the bulll silly with the wood.

I came round a blind left hander on a dirt road between Nerriga and Braidwood when I was kid... so at speed... to find a farmer moving a flock of sheep between paddocks.

Locked up, crossed up, I ran into a ewe and it seemed to make a bloody great noise. I jumped out and looked for a dead sheep but it got up and ran. Fearing the farmer and the damage, all I could see was a bent number plate and farmer who could not be less interested.

It must make a racket when you really do hit something.

I've had a few near misses with wallabies and roos on dirt bikes too. Once saw a little black stinker run straight at the back wheel of a mates bike right it front of me. It bounced off leaving a tuft of hair and meat behind on the swing arm. Luckly it didn't get a limb in the spokes.

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