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So given that it's a Friday, and Monday is a public holiday, I figured it would be good to reunite with society for some quality ssbm time. So I drove from a town called Dookie, a place with 200 or so people if people invite all there relatives up to stay, back down to Melbourne to meet up with some uni friends to play smash.
Great, it's a relaxing car drive, not too far, and I love getting bodied by people better then me.
In any event, driving at 110 km/h down the Hume, when a kangaroo entered side stage and completely totalled the left hand side of my car, made it un-roadworthy, and in general just acted like a pain in the ass. I ended up enjoying a train ride to parkville to play at the semi regular smash tourney that some friends from melbourne uni hold, where I proceeded to get bodied and drop out extremely early in the tournament.
All in all a pretty terrible Friday afternoon.
 
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Hitting a kangaroo sounds traumatic lol.
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It's gonna be traumatic when I get the bill to repair the damage.
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Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow?
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What kind of car do you drive? Did it clear the hood or properly fuck everything up?
On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow?
Its in an Alpo factory now.
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On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow?
No, I had to put it down, it's chest was caved in.
Really didn't like doing that but I couldn't leave it to suffocate slowly on the side of the road :\
On March 07 2015 01:25 ThomasjServo wrote:What kind of car do you drive? Did it clear the hood or properly fuck everything up? Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow? Its in an Alpo factory now.
I drive a ford courier 2003 model (absolute height of sophistication I am), it hit the front left side of the car and did some sort of damage to the circuitry as none of the indicators work, the various meters in the car all dont work, and only a few of the lights work. Shoutout to RACV being prompt as hell and only making me wait for 40 minutes or so.
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On March 07 2015 01:26 bo1b wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow? No, I had to put it down, it's chest was caved in. Really didn't like doing that but I couldn't leave it to suffocate slowly on the side of the road :\
Noooo 
You did the right thing though
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On March 07 2015 01:26 bo1b wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow? No, I had to put it down, it's chest was caved in. Really didn't like doing that but I couldn't leave it to suffocate slowly on the side of the road :\ Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:25 ThomasjServo wrote:What kind of car do you drive? Did it clear the hood or properly fuck everything up? On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow? Its in an Alpo factory now. I drive a ford courier 2003 model (absolute height of sophistication I am), it hit the front left side of the car and did some sort of damage to the circuitry as none of the indicators work, the various meters in the car all dont work, and only a few of the lights work. Shoutout to RACV being prompt as hell and only making me wait for 40 minutes or so.
Brutal that you had to put it down. I am always curious about cars abroad, the Ford Courier as such was never released in the states, or was rebranded for Australia, looks a bit like a Ranger though. Rebranding is funny business.
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Kangaroos are a huge problem in Australia. The government pays people to go out and shoot them by the hundreds...cry for his car, not the kangaroo
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how active are you in the smash scene in melbourne? i'm most likely going to come down for BAM in may.
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On March 07 2015 01:26 bo1b wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow? No, I had to put it down, it's chest was caved in. Really didn't like doing that but I couldn't leave it to suffocate slowly on the side of the road :\
What exactly does it mean to "put it down"?
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On March 07 2015 11:04 GTR wrote:
how active are you in the smash scene in melbourne? i'm most likely going to come down for BAM in may.
Not all that active, currently living up near Shepparton so I don't get to come down as often as I'd like. I'll say something in the melee thread if I'm going to Bam, but I dunno if I will.
Next year though I'm going to everything in melbourne :D
On March 07 2015 12:14 Ilikestarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:26 bo1b wrote:On March 07 2015 01:24 GumBa wrote:
Did the kangaroo atleast survive somehow? No, I had to put it down, it's chest was caved in. Really didn't like doing that but I couldn't leave it to suffocate slowly on the side of the road :\ What exactly does it mean to "put it down"?
It meant to kill it.
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On March 07 2015 12:24 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Like how?
Hit it on the back of its head with a stick.
Why ask that btw?
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Sorry I realized its not something to really ask someone. Usually when I hear the words "put down" I usually think of a vet putting an animal to sleep with a shot so I was just curious in your situation what you had to do.
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wow, that's pretty rough. For both you and the kangaroo, poor thing. Hopefully the rest of the weekend isn't as eventful!
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On March 07 2015 12:40 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Sorry I realized its not something to really ask someone. Usually when I hear the words "put down" I usually think of a vet putting an animal to sleep with a shot so I was just curious in your situation what you had to do.
Actually when I read this that was my initial thought too.
(not to be insensitive to your situation, it just sounded like it might be a little gruesome, Sorry about your car!)
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In other news I'm now ~2k less rich and out of a car for a little while. Sweet as.
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OP is lucky he didn't run into one of those deadly dropbears. He would have made national news had that happened.
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