aggressive yowies.

[peter]

Hi everyone. Just thought after a few weeks of browsing the site if anybody has had an experience with an aggressive yowie.
I have read some of the reports where they give warning signals to people but has there aver been a yowie attack or real aggression showed to a human before.
Kind of curious as not 100% familiar with the animal.
Just wondered if a certain area had one that was a bit defensive in it's territory?

Peter

[Tish]

Stalking is all I've encountered, but I'm sure some of the others can give you something.

[Romeo]

Perhaps you should ask Dean (nicely) and he might tell you.

[Nigel&Jeannie]

Sorry Cass
Been fishin,
Hi Peter
My wife and I have been roared at in the past and by the sound I heard I didnt need to see it the sound was bad enough.
This thing would have been no more than 50 metres away and alls we could think of was get to the car and leave because what ever it was did not want us thier.
Strange thing being we were climbing a condemned fire tower at the time so was it try to tell us something or did it no we were going to have a better view of the area and possibly it.

Also had Stevo jump across a fire to get away from one breathing down his neck but will leave it to stevo or Rob to tell.

Interviewed and recorded a logga on the gold coast who fled the bush after he was hired to chop down some trees ,Have the interview on tape It actually was stalking him then when he seen it .It ran into the valley and ripped trees apart[which we later found on a recon.]Then came back at him ,he ran to his car as this thing tried to cut him off .this area is steep and medium to light timbered.
He feared for his safety that day and when we met up with him he would not return unless armed with a chain saw which he started every 15 minutes
1 to try and bring it in
and
2 He felt safe knowing that if it did come he could defend himself.
Cheers

[Buck]

The chainsaw fellow was logging during the day when he was harrassed. What use are torches then?

Portable airhorn perhaps?

Or a rocket tied to your back like Wily Coyote

What do you do for an agressive daytime encounter.

Cheers Buck

[dawn]

Buck...do you know how to pray?

[mikka]

Buck...do you know how to pray?

[morphous666]

buck.... run as fast as you can and pray he doesn't worry about you, but if he does don't look back because this is what you will see lol
have fun morphous

[Buck]

Gee Guys... I'm praying right now... and running.

Maybe I sould soil myself... It wouldn't be hard under the circumstances.

Thanks for the heads up. Who should I pray to by the way?

Cheers Buck

[Dean Harrison]

I believe Mecca is that way Buck -------->

DMH

[dawn]

Buck...most people find that I'm quite approachable if a $10.. note is sent along with each prayer!

[Alex]

all i can suggest is this.

grab a newspaper, and tap it on the nose & say "down boy!"

..oh wait, that's for training puppies. you're on your own there man.

[Romeo]

But in all seriousness, what actually do you think you could do if apprached by a particularly aggressive yowie?

Would you run? Run like you've never run before? It's seems to be common knowledge that a yowie can travel much faster than any one of us, especially in it's element, so whether or not that would work is debatable. Unless it decides not to give chase.

Would you try to scare it off? Just start screaming obscene language at the top of your voice, and act like you're an absolute nutter? Jump around, slap yourself in the head, pull ridiculous faces and throw around random objects in the hope that it just stares at you blankly and then wanders back into the darkness scratching it's head? (There's a comic concept for ya Alex).

Would you try to communicate? It seems that even animals like cats and dogs can basically get the idea of what we are trying to say through the tone we use and our body language, so I wonder what a highly intelligent creature would be able to gather if non-threatening, subtle tones and gestures were utilised.

Or would you lie down in prostration, curl up into a little ball, and hope that your inevitable demise comes swiftly and painlessly?

I probably wouldn't get a chance to do any, largely due to the fact that I would no doubt already be unconscious.

But if anyone else wants to be a guinea-pig, come out to Ormeau, go bush and start talking trash about Old Mates mum.

Actually, don't.

[Romeo]

For those of you playing at home.

5th paragraph, 1st line.

PROSTRATION: The Maquarie Dictionary.

'To throw oneself on the ground as a sign of humility or worship. To overcome, to make helpless or physically weak.'

Learned that word today. Just had to use it.

[Buck]

Ok I sent 10 karmic dollars Dawn's way.

I'm running to Mecca...

I can spell prostration (rhymes with castration) forwards and backwards...

Why am I being beaten about the head with my own arm?

At least I can use the rolled up newspaper to staunch the blood.

Might be time to get that Bear suit Alex mentioned.

Incidently running can provoke a predator response in some carnivores.

Cheers Buck

[dawn]

Personally I freeze when I'm in trouble, not from choice. I guess thats my defence mechinism. Running usually does bring out the 'chase' instinct in big cats, bears ect, or so I have read. Yet would Dean still be hear if he hadn't run from his first encounter? I think you would have to wait and see. Where you were would have to be taken into concideration, terrain/proximity of help/ is your car within reach, that sort of thing. Then I guess you would have to decide whether it was realy intending to take you home for dinner or just trying to scare you off.

[morphous666]

try not to be scared, because i bet like most animals it could smell and scenes fear

have fun
Morphous

p.s. in a fun note walk up to and say hows it going bro and see what happens then.

[Alex]

Well, one thing I wouldn't do, is grin at it. In the ape world, grinning is like, punching someone in the face.. you'll just make them angry. Bearing your teeth is an agressive stance.

But if you like.. puckered up your lips like you were going to give it a big ole' kiss, then it might back down, because that's the ape's equal to smiling.

On the word "prostration". It sounds like some kind of testicular disease.

Try using antidisestablishmentarianism in an every day conversation.
Now that's one big mother of a word.

[Romeo]

That's not a word.

THIS is a word.

And I quote:

'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicsvolcanoconiosis'

According to 'Webster's Third New International Dictionary, it's a connotation for some sort of lung disease.

But you'd already know that, wouldn't ya bro? With your knowledge of diseases?

Just foolin mate.

Anyway, I'm gettin this mental picture of someone, (not mentioning any names, so as not to embarass 'The Foolish One') going bush and puckering up to the first big hairy mate he comes across. Then getting dragged to the nearest bush to the tune of 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle..........'

Tee hee.

[Alex]

Yeah?! Well.. uhm. I have arms!! *nods seriously*

And now, it's time to layeth the smackdown.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

Game. Set. Match, Alex.

It's welsh for "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio of the red cave".

Crazy welsh people.

[Romeo]

Tuche, my good man.

If I'm not mistaken, this is in fact the name of a small village.

I shall award the point, nontheless.

Crazy welsh.

[Buck]

Is this an aggresive Yowies thread or an aggressive spellers thread.

The last thing on my mind would be spelling. Except my epitaph. "I told you they were real"

Cheers Buck

[Tish]

They say for big cats and bears to make yourself look as large as possible, making lots of noise so they perceive you as the threat.

I guess it all comes down to just how aggressive the yowie is, maybe playing submissive and backing slowly away from him may work.

[dawn]

I doubt they see me as a threat....more likely a good meal!

[Wally]

I picked up a vague report about an injured overseas visitor being left with a rifle.
The story I picked up stated South Coast NSW.
Person found dismembered and shots had been fired.
Case taken over by Feds.
The story continues other foriegners concerned promptly deported and guide leaned on heavily.
person computer delving into records was visited by the "faceless ones" who ensured amnesia. (???)
Did anyone else hear about this?
Wally

[Romeo]

No, didn't hear about it, but would love to find out more.

Did you read it somewhere or were you told by someone?

Do you know how long ago it occured?

Any further information would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

[Buck]

I remember the story went a bit like this and I can't substantiate its source so its probably Chinese whispers now.

A small party of people went looking for the Yowie. At least one of them was American. At some stage they had a daylight encounter where where an American was thrown from his horse and broke his leg very badly.

It was decided that the best thing to do was leave the man and go and get help. A small shelter was erected and the man was made comfortable and left with a rifle for protection.

When the party returned they found the rifle wrapped around a tree, the man dead with his arm torn out of its socket. Blood everywhere, shots fired.

Feds came in took over. I remember that it was an Australian encounter but had no idea if it was a NSW story.

As I said I can't remember its source. The linkmasters will probably find it soon and post a reply.

Cheers Buck

[Alex]

I know what you're talking about. I think.

Hunting yowies is no joke to Harrison, who was quoted in Britain's Financial Times as relating hair-raising accounts of hikers the creature has ripped to pieces.

The mutilated remains of one hiker were reportedly discovered surrounded by five wasted shotgun shells after a violent confrontation with a yowie.

"The last round he should have spent on himself," Harrison remarked. "It would have been a lot kinder."

Harrison became a yowie hunter after a chilling experience in 1997 with one of the creatures that he chased through the woods near his home.

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/suspects/11785

The full story can be found there. It's from a supermarket tabloid. They get basic facta & warp them tenfold. Interesting reading all the same.

[folcrom]

Sounds like the kind of tall tale we tell european tourists about "drop bears", the not so cute and cuddly "relative" of the Koala.

Here's a thought. Could a Yowie seen jumping out of a Bunya pine be mistakingly called a "drop bear"? A Junjadee doing the same, maybe, but a Yowie?

Cheers

Folcrom.

PS. Perhaps Yowies are Unshaved, hairy coneheads intent on colonising the Earth

[morphous666]

can someone find out some more info about this report

Have fun
morphous_666