Not An Attack
.
It just sounds like one.

There I was, a few weeks off the plane here in Melbourne, enjoying a quiet fag when:

CRASH!!!!

Something had hit the tree next door. I didn't know what it was but it was big. Then:

CRASH!! CRASH!! CRASH!!

More of the fuckers. I could hear whatever they were crawling around the upper branches of the tree but I couldn't see them.

Then something shaped like a stealth bomber, but with legs, glided over my head and:

CRASH!!

Turns out they're bats. Or, rather, flying foxes.

This is what they look like:



They don't, as such, land on a tree - it's more like they've been shot down.

Cheers.

P.S On another note, seeing that I'm a member of the B3ta over 40 club, does anyone know who the oldest B3tan regular is? There was one guy in his sixties, a few years back, but I think he's dead....
(Legless Internet Ninja - We Own The Net, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 17:05, closed)

There is one fella who is 55
Captain Hoodbutter... a scholar, a gentleman, a very good musician and quite handy with the local pikeys.
( piston_broke, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 17:55, closed)

Ah
Mr Hoodbutter. A gentleman if ever there was one.

So, so far, he's B3ta's Elder Statesman...

Unless someone knows differently.

Cheers
(Legless Internet Ninja - We Own The Net, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 18:11, closed)

Yay! for Mr Hoodbutter.
With age comes greater silliness.
( big-girl's-blouse doesn't like having wet feet, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 18:29, closed)

This is indeed true
In fact, he is celebrating his birthday tomorrow, in a bash. I would suggest that you all come, if you can wangle transport to Ely.
( piston_broke, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 18:30, closed)

age is just a number
i'm 58 been lurking around here for years
(uugee, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 19:32, closed)

@uugee
Then stop lurking and join in the fun.
( big-girl's-blouse doesn't like having wet feet, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:59, closed)