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The Forum > General Discussion > Should 4 wheel drive owners have to have an extra specialised test before driving one?

Should 4 wheel drive owners have to have an extra specialised test before driving one?

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Cane toads and buffalo are on the road. . In May 2005 a 46 year old man was killed in Nhulunbuy by a wild buffalo . Police have started hunting buffaloes as this was far from the first incident, other people had been attacked, although nobody had been killed by buffaloes in the town since April 1993. In September 2007 a 49 year old woman from Melbourne was holidaying at Peppers Seven Spirit Bay resort on the Cobourg Peninsula and while she was enjoying a nice stroll along the beach with a couple of friends a wild buffalo charged them and attacked her . Buffalo are reported along the east coast and interfere with surfers escaping shark attacks.
Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 10 November 2017 2:47:13 PM
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I forgot to mention those other obstructive vehicles that ought to be off the roads, if size is the criterion, rigid and articulated fuel tankers, caravans and motorhomes, all farm trailers loaded with hay or bins of pumpkins etc., horse floats and last but not least cranes both self-propelled and truck mounted.

Large tractors hauling implements are a bit of a hazard as well.
Posted by Is Mise, Friday, 10 November 2017 4:09:24 PM
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That's more like it , a self-propelled crane . "Have a good day at school, Bill . Mum will drop you off using the crane and then pick up a container of pumpkins at Farmers co-op ".
Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 10 November 2017 4:56:17 PM
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Issy, as a leading member of the Shooters and Hooters, the hooters in their 4wd's will serve as your make do armoured divvy when the next attack comes from us tree hugging freaky people, demanding you put down your weapons.We are working on it in NSW.
Posted by Paul1405, Friday, 10 November 2017 4:59:53 PM
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//Wow! Toni...I saw what you did there...At least your wylie ways impressed yourself...You are like a kyote at a chicken coup...So tricky//

No wuckas, Mr. Poeslaw.

BTW, I am impressed with your impression of a daft hippie, albeit one that is slightly OTT. Still, not so OTT that it fails to fool all of the people some of the time. Which is pretty damn good.

It's a brilliant parody, and the character you've created is so comically delightful that I'd be reluctant to abandon him too.
Kudos to you for not breaking character, and for the nice authentic little touches like deliberately mis-spelling 'coyote'.

//The new course//

With added course notes for those who have yet to figure out where your cheek is generally placed:

1. Never use your vehicle as a weapon to bully other drivers. Or your moral superiority because you drive a 2WD. Especially if you can't drive that 2WD particularly well.

2. 4x4s don't make you a tough guy. But 2WD's don't make you a better person. Or a better driver, apparently...

3. Tail gating is dangerous bullying and just plain dumb! Regardless of your make and model.

4. Tail gating is when you drive too close to the car in front. Stating the obvious is when y... you know what, figure the rest out for yourselves.

5. Why Bull Bars are deadly....not a fashion statement, and should never be fitted. Advanced course: why bull bars save lives... but cow-catchers are cooler and objectively better.

6. How to stay in your own lanes and off mobile phones. A combined class with the 2WD stream.

7. Basic Mathematics: The importance of being able to count to 10 if you want to avoid making a twat of yourself.

8. Why your actions and inattention can turn your 4x4 into a lethal weapon. Or, Basic Momentum: Where Mass and Velocity Collide. A combined class with the 2WD stream.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Friday, 10 November 2017 5:00:21 PM
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9. You can't stop as fast and in as short a distance in a 4x4. Advanced Momentum: The Further Disadvantages of Excess Mass. A combined class with the local Weightwatchers group.

10. Your fellow 4x4 driver is only as smart as you, so be wary. But he isn't half as stupid as the clown in the 2WD next to you who can't drive and doesn't understand simple mechanics, so be very, very afraid.

11. You don't really own the 4x4, when you are nearly bankrupt after you borrow the money from the bank to buy it. But you'd just waste your money on other pointless toys anyway.

12. Should canoes be a fashion accessory and "just in case" equipment like bull bars, in case you cross a flooded stream and get washed away. And other impractical ideas.

13. Getting washed off a flooded road and drowning in a 4x4 isn't fun! Basic Fluid Dynamics: Why it's a Monumentally Stupid Idea to Attempt Driving in Floodwater. A combined class with the Applied Darwinism class.

14. Do bigger tyres make my vehicle more buoyant in water and why? Advanced Fluid Dynamics: Archimedes Principle and the Difference 'Twixt Cars and Boats.

15. How not to make "broom, broom, I'm like a truck" noises when driving your 4x4. How to avoid smug-related complications induced by driving a 2WD.

16. Yes! Because you drive a big fat oversized 4x4 people in other vehicles can't see past you as easily as well. Basic Optics: Line of Sight is in the Eye of the Beholder.

17. Basic Common Sense: if you don't already know all this, then the danger is not so much that you're operating heavy machinery as it is that you're not secured in a well-supervised institution.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Friday, 10 November 2017 5:02:07 PM
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