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Yeah. Can't have her steering the horse into a head on collision with a vehicle. Uhmm would a horse let itself get steered into a head on collision? Or just stomp all over a child without reaction? I'm not familiar with horses so I'm only assuming they have their own brain unlike a car.

 ProwlerPC wrote:
Yeah. Can't have her steering the horse into a head on collision with a vehicle. Uhmm would a horse let itself get steered into a head on collision? Or just stomp all over a child without reaction? I'm not familiar with horses so I'm only assuming they have their own brain unlike a car.

Naturally, a horse's instinct is to avoid crashing into stuff, although you can of course train them to overcome that instinct (as with war or jumping horses who need to be able to run straight at objects without swerving away).
When drunk, it is definitely better to be driving a horse than driving a car. Not that riding horses while drunk is a good idea of course.

 ProwlerPC wrote:
Yeah. Can't have her steering the horse into a head on collision with a vehicle. Uhmm would a horse let itself get steered into a head on collision? Or just stomp all over a child without reaction? I'm not familiar with horses so I'm only assuming they have their own brain unlike a car.

Horses will generally act somewhat to avoid obvious danger to themselves, although that will depend somewhat on training on just how insistently the rider is trying to force them to go somewhere stupid. And, of course, horses don't always react in the most sensible way to sudden surprises or unexpected danger, and an inebriated rider is going to be less capable of dealing with that without someone getting hurt.

And even outside of obviously dangerous situations, there's the issue of someone drunk taking their horse somewhere that's not designed for horses and causing property damage.

Also worth pointing out that this isn't just an Australian thing... Some states in the US would have given her the same problem.

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 ProwlerPC wrote:
Yeah. Can't have her steering the horse into a head on collision with a vehicle. Uhmm would a horse let itself get steered into a head on collision? Or just stomp all over a child without reaction? I'm not familiar with horses so I'm only assuming they have their own brain unlike a car.

Naturally, a horse's instinct is to avoid crashing into stuff, although you can of course train them to overcome that instinct (as with war or jumping horses who need to be able to run straight at objects without swerving away).
When drunk, it is definitely better to be driving a horse than driving a car. Not that riding horses while drunk is a good idea of course.

Anyone remember the young teen female that destroyed a vehicle in front of the court house over there. With a fire axe. I highly doubt I can top that with the time she completed it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06dyzpj

Australia's Christmas Island is seething with Coconut Crabs the size of a small dog who will steal anything not bolted down. and try to eat it.

The reporter sets up motion sensiong cameras to film them, with predictable results.

Well that's just cute. Coconut crabs are adorable.

Amusingly the video comes up with a "This content is not available in your location" message here, despite filming in Australia too.

Same here. For sanity, this is probably a good thing.

I was going to show a picture of one and say they're not so bad but the first few results on google was one kind of eating a bird...

Apparently they can hunt birds, so I guess it's good they're stuck on some island.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06dyzpj

Australia's Christmas Island is seething with Coconut Crabs the size of a small dog who will steal anything not bolted down. and try to eat it.

The reporter sets up motion sensiong cameras to film them, with predictable results.

What I want to know is... are they edible? If so, that's a lotta crab meat!

The crabs stole the video.

 n0t_u wrote:
I was going to show a picture of one and say they're not so bad but the first few results on google was one kind of eating a bird...

Dammit. I practically spat my drink out.

 whembly wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06dyzpj

Australia's Christmas Island is seething with Coconut Crabs the size of a small dog who will steal anything not bolted down. and try to eat it.

The reporter sets up motion sensiong cameras to film them, with predictable results.

What I want to know is... are they edible? If so, that's a lotta crab meat!

Everything is edible, at least once.

But yes, apparently they are. They can be poisonous depending on their diet though, which just adds to the cool factor.

 whembly wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:

Australia's Christmas Island is seething with Coconut Crabs the size of a small dog

What I want to know is... are they edible? If so, that's a lotta crab meat!

Asking the important questions.

But feth if I wouldn't cook one if I found one.

https://twitter.com/7NewsTownsville/status/1083636458542395392


ah, Australia.

I'd offer up a "He's not quite the dumbest teen in Townsville ..." but I'd be lying.

No strange Aussie fauna involved?

Or am I in the wrong thread? There was Vodka ...

Well, to be fair they don't get much stranger than the people in Townsville ...

As they aren't part of the flora, they ARE fauna.

Well it just says he was fleeing the scene of an accident. A kangaroo may still have been involved.

 reds8n wrote:

Spoiler:

looks like Australia is going to go to war with Switzerland.

Scuse me, but why?!? We are a terrible comparable standart in living long.

Beyond that, the aussies would freeze to death in summer and in winter they'd be worse off then a fish on Land.

 chromedog wrote:
I'd offer up a "He's not quite the dumbest teen in Townsville ..." but I'd be lying.

If he was, the Powerpuff Girls would have defeated him.

 BaronIveagh wrote:

 chromedog wrote:
I'd offer up a "He's not quite the dumbest teen in Townsville ..." but I'd be lying.

If he was, the Powerpuff Girls would have defeated him.

Well, Mojo Jojo did cause the accident.

...and I understood nothing in those last two comments.

Cartoon from a couple decades back.
The Powerpuff girls defended the City of Townsville from various supervillains, one of which was a super-intelligent ape, Mojo-Jojo.

Aye, same time as Dexters Lab was on

I don't think we even had them here at the time.

Glad I didn't make a Scooby Doo reference, everyone here would have been baffled. Cept maybe Frazz. I suspect he still remembers Astroboy.

Cartoons stopped being worth watching after Gargoyles.

Pretty much BEFORE gargoyles, too. :p

 chromedog wrote:
Cartoons stopped being worth watching after Gargoyles.

Pretty much BEFORE gargoyles, too. :p

ABSOLUTE HERESY.

You can't discount Justice League, Batman Beyond, Undergrads, Clone High for some of the later shows. Even recent animation like Bojack Horseman, Archer, Rick and Morty and Young Justice are all good examples of great cartoons. Clearly you haven't looked hard enough . Gotta lay off the vegemite mate!

 Grimskul wrote:

 chromedog wrote:
Cartoons stopped being worth watching after Gargoyles.

Pretty much BEFORE gargoyles, too. :p

ABSOLUTE HERESY.

You can't discount Justice League, Batman Beyond, Undergrads, Clone High for some of the later shows. Even recent animation like Bojack Horseman, Archer, Rick and Morty and Young Justice are all good examples of great cartoons. Clearly you haven't looked hard enough . Gotta lay off the vegemite mate!

And that's just western animation.