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You guys and gals should be ashamed! Not once have I read anything that expresses any concern whatsoever for the welfare of the ROO!

What of its family???? Did you think of THAT??? Oh Nooooooo too worried about chasing replacement parts I see.

You should all feel suitably chastened.

Jeeeeez......

heh heh heh

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Yes, joking. Definately. But I admire Roos, they have better target lock than an F-18 Hornet. An F-18 needs to use radar to seek and acquire, but not the Roo. A bus (or Shell's car) leaves it's home port thousands of km away and, hours later, in the middle of a flat deserted plane with nothing but dirt and no other vehicles in sight, the Roo just knows exactly where to be so it can intercept the bus grille with pin point accuracy. Impressive.

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i thought of the roo!! but i couldn't find the bloody thing!! :D

in all seriousness though, i never like to see an animal in pain...i would have rung the cops to put it down if it had been injured after hitting me. They do this with no problem, they put a bullet in the head of one my friend saw hit a car one night.

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Damn, a bloody roo jumped out in front of me going along haydon drv. when i hit the ancors it pulled me to the left and i mounted the gutter.... sounds like i busted something in my suspension/steering. how hard are lower control arms to get a hold of? i think mines bent now

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man not cool terminal well i meant to post one up myself i nearly had a shell experiance... well similar

last night going along the road next to fadden pines um coyne is it ??? not bugden the one off that anyways long story short and this is no bullshit i had just said to my mate havent actually seen many kangeroos of late next then seriously 20 seconds later 2 jump out straight in front of me slam my foot on the breaks and god bless abs pulled up a good 3 or 4 meters as they just carelessly jumped across the road... man and people say sheep are stupid i reckon kangeroos have got them on that...

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Bad luck Terminal, uncanny two like leech_

I was on my way back from Bungendore one night with my girlfriend riding shotgun. Been sitting on 130 since i left and hadn't touched the brakes, so I thought it would be a good idea to warm em up incase i need them. Started doing a few hard brakes down to 40kmph to get them really hot and low and behold around the very next corner was about 50 roos all over the road. I steered around two and stopped right infron of another who got confused and keeped hopping down the road and not off it.

Would have been carnage for sure had i not been doing only 50 or so when i saw them.

Some of us have all the luck. lol

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