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Róisín:
The problem with roos and detection systems is the same as with roos and fences. A big roo can jump more than six feet off the ground. And not just roos are car hazards: hitting a wombat is like hitting a boulder in the road. Though the most damaging accidents I have been in with animals have been when the driver of the car I was in hit a horse which was standing sideways in the road on a blind corner north of Alice Springs (fortunately for us what broke the windscreen was the animal’s back rather than its hooves), and a wedgetailed eagle that came straight through the windscreen of a truck in which I was a passenger as it came down a slope in the Blue Mountains. Being in a truck cabin with a big, injured and very angry bird of prey was extremely unnerving.
JoB:
It looks like Scandinavian history is currently busy repeating itself ... ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Fire_of_1728
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Fire_of_1795
midwestmutt:
The insanity keeps coming closer. Today the 14 year old granddaughter of friends of mine from our reenactor club was in lockdown for over 6 hours today after another 14 year old student tried to enter their school with a rifle in Mt Horeb Wi. He was shot dead by police.
Keep Looking:
That's truly awful, I'm sorry to hear.
thorny:
That is indeed terrible. I'm sorry for all concerned. And how are we getting 14 year olds into such a state? (And I wonder whether they could have stopped the child without shooting him. News stories don't seem to be addressing that, at least so far.)
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