Sunday, 9 July 2017

Buffalo news

From The Daily Mail:

A man has died after a station wagon hit a buffalo on a remote Northern Territory highway.

Police say a 54-year-old man was travelling in a car with five other people in north-eastern Arnhem Land around 5am on Sunday when it crashed into the beast.


How can you just "hit" a buffalo?

Maybe buffaloes are like trees? If they see somebody driving carelessly, they jump out in front of them to teach them a lesson?

9 comments:

formertory said...

They didn't say how much his house is worth!

Mark Wadsworth said...

FT, disappointingly, no.

Sackerson said...

Who pays the buffalo bill?

JuliaM said...

/applause for Sackerson

JuliaM said...

And full marks for the photo editor, who - surprisingly for the 'Daily Fail' - didn't drag out a pic of an African Cape Buffalo or American bison.

JuliaM said...

Should have let a woman drive, since everyone knows Buffalo Gals go around the outside....

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OK I'll get my coat!

MikeW said...

Very good above,

My reading was that the man just drove at the beast thinking it would get out of his way. His mistake was thinking it was just a Bluffalo.

One for the kids!

A K Haart said...

"How can you just "hit" a buffalo?"

Definitely not like this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws

Mark Wadsworth said...

JM, exactly. Go round the outside (baaa), don't try and drive through it, what sort of macho shit is that?