JiP Posted March 29, 2009 Author Report Posted March 29, 2009 So my mate from work has offered to rebuild my SU's. Today we drove down to Autobarn to grab a rebuild kit. During the drive he pretty much offered to build me a drift car with one of my shells and spare engines. I can't wait!!
Jason KE30 Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 So I was driving home tonight and took a side street to avoid a main intersection when I noticed a dog walking the streets. There was no one around so I decided to pull over to see if it was ok. I walked over to it and it was the nicest dog ever. It was a beautiful Alaskan Malamute and it was HUGE. It didn't have a collar on it though. I stood there for a few seconds just looking around to see if there may have been a car around looking for it or something, but there was no one around. I started walking back to my car and it followed me so i opened the back door and it climbed in. Mind you this dog was so big that it could barely fit in the back of my rolla. I wasn't really sure what to do so I just called my dad and he said take it to the 24hr vet near our house which was about 15 kms away. So thats what I did and when i told the nurses at the vet they said that I did the right thing and they would check if the dog was micro-chipped or not. Luckily it was. I just got a phone call from them saying that they got in contact with the owner and they were coming to pick him up now. So a happy ending to that story, but I just can't believe that a beautiful, obviously looked after dog like an Alaskan Malamute wasn't wearing a collar. It would have killed me to hear that it had been hit by a car or something. That's my good deed for the year
Raven Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 That reminds me of my act to save a tagged homing pigeon last weekend that was getting mobbed by 3 magpies. Took him to Fauna rescue but don't know whats happened to him.
corolla_nut Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 My OMG was yesterday... I finally raced in my first khanacross! It was farking Awesome! got 1 go at 3 different tracks each and then another go at the first 2 tracks in reverse. And I was first in my class (originally it was a given because I was the only one in my class, but then I looked and they put me in the Modified 1601-2000cc class instead of the modified under 1600 class, so I'm first out of 2!) and 16th outright out of 27, which I'm really happy with. :) It was so much fun and next time I'm making robert do it too! Oooh! and I may have found another ke55!
Lexxi[ke35] Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 So I was driving home tonight and took a side street to avoid a main intersection when I noticed a dog walking the streets. There was no one around so I decided to pull over to see if it was ok. I walked over to it and it was the nicest dog ever. It was a beautiful Alaskan Malamute and it was HUGE. It didn't have a collar on it though. I stood there for a few seconds just looking around to see if there may have been a car around looking for it or something, but there was no one around. I started walking back to my car and it followed me so i opened the back door and it climbed in. Mind you this dog was so big that it could barely fit in the back of my rolla. I wasn't really sure what to do so I just called my dad and he said take it to the 24hr vet near our house which was about 15 kms away. So thats what I did and when i told the nurses at the vet they said that I did the right thing and they would check if the dog was micro-chipped or not. Luckily it was. I just got a phone call from them saying that they got in contact with the owner and they were coming to pick him up now.So a happy ending to that story, but I just can't believe that a beautiful, obviously looked after dog like an Alaskan Malamute wasn't wearing a collar. It would have killed me to hear that it had been hit by a car or something. That's my good deed for the year Aww that's so nice! I would've kept him :) Its not as good as giving him back to his family but its better than leaving him to get run over :cool: I woulda been too scared that he'd bite me though. I seem to smell tasty to big dogs lol
orangeLJ Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 We had a giant malamute rock up on my parents door step one night, our cat (kitten at the time) wasnt too fond of her! We hung around out the front with her (dog was female) for an hour, she didnt want to go, so we took her for a walk around the neighbourhood to see if she would go to a house/home. While we were out (we= karlie and me) a group of kids were walking towards us (it was about 11pm at night) and the dog ran to get between us and the group and then growled at them and stood its ground until we had completely passed.... was kinda cool! she walked with us the whole couple blocks, no lead or anything, just heeled really well. I ended up ringing a vets emergency number, and he told me that he didnt want it there overnight as they howl and carry on and when I went back out the front to find the dog to lock her in the yard for the night, she was gone, obviously had decided to go home!
Lexxi[ke35] Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 As close to saving a stray dog as I've ever been is when we found a baby tawny frog mouth just past the back door. It was making a racket and when i went to pick it up my dog tried to eat it and it tried to hop away. I caught it and put it in a cage and got my mum to pick up some food thing from the vet on her way home from work but by the time she got home the poor thing was dead :)
SoulSearcher Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 oh, I rescue dogs all the time! I couldn't bear it if my dog got lost and I couldn't find him, so I'm a "pro rescue puppy person" I have twice looked after a dog for the ENTIRE day, as the owner was at work and asked if I would, so I did, it was a ginormous golden lab, and it was drooling (all over my interior!), during the day the kids took him for a run, then a play, then another run, it was the dogs big day out...... it's really funny when you open the door and they just jump in! such trusting creatures....
Tume Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Getting my laptop tomorrow instead of 2 weeks to a month! can't wait... Rescued lots of strange animals and had random visitors appear. Once had an echidna hiding in our dog's kennel, put it in the alcove for the night to make sure nothing bad happened to it, saw it climbing up the flyscreen at one point. Still lives in the backyard somewhere, in between my house and our neighbours.
7shades Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 I'm looking after several generations of white tail rats. They're living in my Crown parked out the back.
JiP Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Posted March 30, 2009 The plumbers at work were drilling another hole in the slab on the floor above today (Floors 4 to 5). So just like last week when they drilled through the slab between floors 1 and 2, they cut the main power cables. Then not to mention all the water from their drill filling up all the power cable tubes, then pouring from the slab above wetting the whole pile of plasterboard sheets on the floor. Pretty phucked.
Nitephyre Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Sounds like you work with a bunch of tools mate! And not the useful ones either :wink:
towe001 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Went to the chiropractor on saturday. 205 bucks later for a consultation plus x-rays to find out just how bad my back is. But the real eye opener of seeing the x-rays is that for almost 30 years i've been running around with a break between my tail bone and my spine. Going back there on wednesday for my first servicing :wink:
Trev Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Went to the chiropractor on saturday. 205 bucks later for a consultation plus x-rays to find out just how bad my back is. But the real eye opener of seeing the x-rays is that for almost 30 years i've been running around with a break between my tail bone and my spine.Going back there on wednesday for my first servicing :wink: Yesterday I had an MRI or CT scan done on my neck and back to see why I am in pain, I find out the news in half an hour.
orangeLJ Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 came to work today and sat down, saw a hair poking out from behind my keyboard, went to pull it (looked like a long hair stuck under the keyboard) and it turned out to be a cockroaches antenna thingo.... My desk is spottless, and in all the years Ive worked here Ive never seen a cockroach. Bastard tried to attack me too! He now resides in the bottom of the bin with his insides on the out.
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