Fruit Bats - Page 2

Feathers · 11-11-2005, 09:25 PM

We used the air rifle on the pigeons that were living in the roof at the bus depot.
Dad didn't really like spraying the roof of a bus, leaving it overnight to go off, and then coming in the next day to do the next coat, only to find a pigeon had been walking around on it, or had shat on it.

Sourbastard · 13-11-2005, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jabba

You Bas-tard, Why did you have to bring him up. It's taken me 17 years to get over him. Now I have a hankering for some off those marshmellow that Micky use to eat, What were they called again

Buggered if I remember, just glad someone else remembers this 80's icon!

GreenMachine · 14-11-2005, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by camc88

So,its Winchester Disease For The Little Flockers Eh?

A bit of a Stihl haircut for the palm trees will probably keep most of the bastards away... Any leftovers I'll medicate with a lead injection.

Rodp · 14-11-2005, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by CDAA

You appear quite proud of yourself

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So he should be, the myna birds are a pest. They're apparently in the top 100 Worst invasive species (I'm guessing Humans top the list) and should be culled whenever possible.

Sourbastard · 14-11-2005, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by CDAA

You appear quite proud of yourself

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They didnt have a choice. The Police Negotiators were late, and the birds had hostages.

jcxr · 14-11-2005, 10:58 AM

We had nesting birds in our old house, so a night out on the turps, get home early a.m to the noisey mongrols.Easy cure.Chuck the cat up through the manhole and leave it in the roof for a couple of days. Problem cured.

Matty_XR6 · 14-11-2005, 10:59 AM

the funniest thing is Bats don`t have an *** so the crap comes up thru there gob and your right it will chew your paint away real quick, my grandparents live in enoggera and have the same problem in the tree out the front... wash it off straight away c an`t really get rid of em unless you can cover the tree over

gozza · 14-11-2005, 11:01 AM

just drill a few holes in the tree roots and poison them...hopefully a few bats may suck up some death juice....the tree will die and you won't need to do jack all

Matty_XR6 · 14-11-2005, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by gozza

just drill a few holes in the tree roots and poison them...hopefully a few bats may suck up some death juice....the tree will die and you won't need to do jack all

If you wanna do that ddrive huge copper nails into the trunk that will kill the tree

BlueRaven · 14-11-2005, 02:18 PM

Well the trees were cut down on the weekend, so hopefully there won't be any bat poo around.

So we have to find the money to repair the section of the car instead. Interesting though, is that yesterday we found that some idiot has hit the front passenger side of our car...its pushed the light in a bit, made a small dent and put white all over the bumper.

No note, nothing.

Matty_XR6 · 14-11-2005, 02:21 PM

That annoys me to, my missus went the shops and some **** had backed out and swiped front side of bar and fog light taking paint off and just drove away.

WASP · 14-11-2005, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueRaven

Well the trees were cut down on the weekend, so hopefully there won't be any bat poo around.

So we have to find the money to repair the section of the car instead. Interesting though, is that yesterday we found that some idiot has hit the front passenger side of our car...its pushed the light in a bit, made a small dent and put white all over the bumper.

No note, nothing.

Well there's your opportunity. Get your insurance to fix the damage on the passenger side of your car and while the crash repairer is painting already, ask them to do your roof as well. It should work out a little cheaper hopefully.

SSBUB · 14-11-2005, 04:15 PM

i believe that is called crisatunity according to homer

MethodX · 14-11-2005, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

Buggered if I remember, just glad someone else remembers this 80's icon!

The marshmallows he ate were called Atomic Thunderbusters.

a rather crapola show

CarBroker · 15-11-2005, 09:46 AM

Just for future reference, this stuff handles brake fluid and should (??) probably give some measure of protection against fruit bat droppings. It handles bird sh*t very well.

And Teflon/PTFE just doesn't add any protection whatsoever. According to DuPont, that is.

blue fairy · 15-11-2005, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by CDAA

Well there's your opportunity. Get your insurance to fix the damage on the passenger side of your car and while the crash repairer is painting already, ask them to do your roof as well. It should work out a little cheaper hopefully.

Sadly, this is not an option as the insurance company will regard them as two seperate incidents and will require the payment of the excess twice. :(

Unless I can convince them that the Bat was driving a car, hit my front bumber which pushed my headlight in and then got of of the car and pooped on my roof.

WASP · 15-11-2005, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by blue fairy

Sadly, this is not an option as the insurance company will regard them as two seperate incidents and will require the payment of the excess twice. :(

Unless I can convince them that the Bat was driving a car, hit my front bumber which pushed my headlight in and then got of of the car and pooped on my roof.

lol..funny although that was not what I mean't sorry. Still only claim for the one incident (side damage), but use the opportunity of it being painted in the crash repair shop already to get the roof done as well for a lesser price than if they had to especially prepare the car and mix up the paint just for the roof. Does that make sense?