New Lizard found..(spiky lizard)

[DanTheMan]

This is great!!!
I hope it happens more, then every one will swerve any reptile they see incase its covered in spikes!!
Why did I not think of this?
Lol, what a load of crap, he was pulling over to answer his phone..
good job!

I mean everyone WONT* swerve, lol, not will swerve.

 

[Australis]

but you're right, there's plenty of what ifs - and there's the element of unknown... but that's the risk you take as a wildlife killer too - there's a big unknown!

The "wildlife" killer will become the victim, and the "wildlife saver" the criminal layer of a mantrap.
Do all the people wanting to lay traps also pursue people they see swerve to hit wildlife and give
them a good flogging?.. you know to get the word out and all... easier to cowardly lay a mantrap eh.

Imagine someone who loves Cane toads or Cats laying out the equivalent mantraps.. wouldn't the
tables turn then.

 

[Kyro]

I really don't understand how anyone could deliberately cause an accident & then feel good about it. Thats just a low life act & doesn't make you any better than the person swerving to hit reptiles. These fools hitting wildlife need to be stopped,no doubt about that but surely any decent person can see that causing an accident is morally wrong.

 

[ihaveherps]

indeed Australis..... would much better serve the public for these sort of rigs to be "found" occasionally in various states, the newspapers alerted and given links to other articles like this one. Let the media drum up the hype, rather cheap way of attaining advertising for the cause.... I bet the intention of my post goes over the heads of the majority.

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

indeed Australis..... would much better serve the public for these sort of rigs to be "found" occasionally in various states, the newspapers alerted and given links to other articles like this one. Let the media drum up the hype, rather cheap way of attaining advertising for the cause.... I bet the intention of my post goes over the heads of the majority.

Now this, I like..

 

[Australis]

Perfect point herpies.. no harm done.

 

[DanTheMan]

indeed Australis..... would much better serve the public for these sort of rigs to be "found" occasionally in various states, the newspapers alerted and given links to other articles like this one. Let the media drum up the hype, rather cheap way of attaining advertising for the cause.... I bet the intention of my post goes over the heads of the majority.

What a great idea!

 

[ReptilianGuy]

There is another storey about someone putting road spikes in a dead python. Ive always wanted to put a rubber snake on the road and see how many serve. Im not aloud to do it though incase someone rolls it lol.

oh what a sweet idea..... iv'e seen many people swerve to hit them when it's just the head on the road...... i take my hat off to the person who nailed and spiked the toy lizard.
likely story to about pulling over to answer the phone. but like the papers as well to not put the whole story in, did it get his tyre on the left side or the right????? i generally pull over and avoid anything on the road thats there. but screw the fone if the was a lizard there lol.

i think there maybe a new species of spiky brown or black snakes on the road 1 day after this article.... don't think it would be a prank tho hehe..... but true the piont is mite get some w@nker that can't handle a flat or blowout at high speed and cause a crash. wouldn't wish that on any1 even tosssa's that have bugger all brains. so i wouldn't do it as much as i'd love to

 

[ReptilianGuy]

lol. I didn't mean to sound quite so prudish about it in my original reply.

I'm a nervous driver at the best of times, and the idea of fools out there trying to add to the road toll, be it through good intentions or not, still gives me the willies

i agree with ya and got what ya ment mate

 

[cooper123]

someone make a step by step guide of how to make one lol maby add a solar powered motor to make it look like it is walking

 

[LauraM]

I can understand why someone would pull this prank, but they certainly don't have much going on upstairs.

All I can think is "what if some idiot swerves to hit it, loses a tire and crashes horribly". I think most of us wouldn't be too upset.

However.

"What if some idiot swerves to hit it, loses a tire and crashes horribly killing himself, his three children and wife".

I couldn't live with myself.

I totally agree with that, what if they dont see the lizard and have to pull over for some reason etc someone is sick in car (bad example) ......
although it would bring a smile to my face if someone purposely tried to kill it and got a punctured tire for there time

 

[ReptilianGuy]

The "wildlife" killer will become the victim, and the "wildlife saver" the criminal layer of a mantrap.
Do all the people wanting to lay traps also pursue people they see swerve to hit wildlife and give
them a good flogging?.. you know to get the word out and all... easier to cowardly lay a mantrap eh.

Imagine someone who loves Cane toads or Cats laying out the equivalent mantraps.. wouldn't the
tables turn then.

the initial swerve to kill the animal can become fatal?
i've often whanted to follow and belt the person for running over a retile that was an easy see and avoid, especially those that swerve and get a monitor or snake. sometimes because i'm there running up to get the poor bugger of the road... 5 times thats happened to me...
could set up a spikey snake and look like your trying to get it off the edge of the road, that way if it gets run over they are then there and pissed and so are you!!!! that way doesn't seem cowardly then.

as much as i hate to admit it there isn't much you can do if a reptiles in the middle of the road.

imagine if it became common how many reptiles could be saved if on the side of the road?

 

[ReptilianGuy]

someone make a step by step guide of how to make one lol maby add a solar powered motor to make it look like it is walking

lol thats getting more expensive, but probly still worth it.... unless it went bad, my luck is if i did it they would kill themselves ( eh) or some other innocent oncomer or some1 beside them.... it's the other road users i'd be more concerned about!

 

[fatfrog]

Imagine someone who loves Cane toads or Cats laying out the equivalent mantraps.. wouldn't the tables turn then.

what are people going to start making exploding cats cos its not like people try to run over cats and for the toads no one likes them i dont think theres going to be exploding toads any time soon

 

[ReptilianGuy]

what are people going to start making exploding cats cos its not like people try to run over cats and for the toads no one likes them i dont think theres going to be exploding toads any time soon

lol :lol::lol::lol::lol: yeah, cats move fast as well... i think it would be odd if it were standing there just to be run over???

 

[herptrader]

Modern tyres don't tend to explode or fail catastrophically with a nail puncture. Most of the time they do not even go flat and certainly not straight away. I cannot imagine any more danger from running over a live lizard than over a plastic one albeit one with nails poking out of it.

 

[spilota_variegata]

I'd like to see someone pack a plastic lizard full of C4. I bet Mr. Drew Smith drives a pick up truck with a shotgun rack in the back.

 

[ReptilianGuy]

lol. but snakes are the main victims of deleberate road carnage, after all a good snake is a dead 1/ or in our case a fake 1 will be our good dead snake lol

 

[Rocky]

I didn't even know people deliberately ran over animals.. what the hell is wrong with people?

LOL, thats a great idea!

i'm gonna start putting them EVERYWHERE!!!

We don't get people that do that around here Chris, so we should be fine

 

[Australis]

the initial swerve to kill the animal can become fatal?

Either you've misinterpreted my post, or im not understanding your reply.. either way
laying a mantrap is a shabby idea, if caught you'll be in the $***.
I think Ihaveherps advice is ace, go and make your "mantrap" photograph it show some
local rag.. doing so would surely prevent more people swerving to kill native critters than
one or two isolated incidents of flat tyres.

what are people going to start making exploding cats cos its not like people try to run over cats and for the toads no one likes them i dont think theres going to be exploding toads any time soon

People definately do try, and even succeed in running over cats. so ive heard