I'm still coming down from the rush, beats fast cars and I would imagine recreational drugs any day.
Sitting at the dining room table working at my laptop when I looked up to see a huge male baboon standing in the lounge looking at me.
I'm still coming down from the rush, beats fast cars and I would imagine recreational drugs any day.
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Originally posted by Ivan
beats ... recreational drugs any day.
hope it wasn't being rude
you better be careful, you don't want to mess with him, he might ring up baloo,kahn and bagira!
A babboon eh? Hmm, I reckon I'd fight it.
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Originally posted by mistergrumpy
A babboon eh? Hmm, I reckon I'd fight it.
Nah, we had a lad at school with bigger teeth than that and a lad in the RAF they used to call Billy Piper. Said he could eat an apple through a
tennis racket 
Bring it on! Grrrr.
Yeah - those teeth are pretty impressive when they snarl at you - also they weigh in at around 70 lbs and are all muscle so although I shouted at him and threw a clipboard at him I was real lucky he didn't decide to take me on and left just before the beloved Corgi got from the bedroom to the lounge when she heard me shouting at it.
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Originally posted by Ivan
although I shouted at him and threw a clipboard at him I was real lucky he didn't decide to take me on
If the clipboard hadn't worked the chair would have been next followed by the table and then the Corgi and then the wife in that order.
you have neglected to mention how the frick a baboon got into your living room in the first place!
do you not have windows & doors in your country?
Maybe there's a baboon flap in the door?
The front sliding door was open as the dog had been lying on the deck - but she had just come in and gone through to the bedroom. Normally you hear
them coming over the roof or the babies are screaming and give plenty of warning, but this time he snuck up to us from nowhere.
[Edited on 25/5/09 by Ivan]
Am I missing something here?
Babboon/living room
Explain...
Unless it's your pet name for Mrs Ivan?
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Originally posted by chrisg
Am I missing something here?
Babboon/living room
Explain...
Unless it's your pet name for Mrs Ivan?
We have a troop of about 20+ baboons (the genuine article) that visit our neighbourhood several times a week, when they're not ripping down the
gutters and fascias of your house by swinging from them, they're trying to get into the house to raid the fridge and food storage cupboards - if
they get in it looks like a crowd of hooligans has ransacked your house and cr*pped and pee'd everywhere, they are able to open windows and doors
if they are not properly latched.
Unfortunately they seem to have more rights than people as they are protected and you may not hurt the little darlings, and they know it.
And no LOL, Mrs Ivan is Darling, Sweetheart, etc - never ever anything disparaging - she's just the best - who like Claire on here can put her
hand to building a car and engine.
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Unfortunately they seem to have more rights than people as they are protected and you may not hurt the little darlings, and they know it.
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Originally posted by Ivan
We have a troop of about 20+ baboons (the genuine article) that visit our neighbourhood several times a week, when they're not ripping down the gutters and fascias of your house by swinging from them, they're trying to get into the house to raid the fridge and food storage cupboards - if they get in it looks like a crowd of hooligans has ransacked your house and cr*pped and pee'd everywhere, they are able to open windows and doors if they are not properly latched.
Unfortunately they seem to have more rights than people as they are protected and you may not hurt the little darlings, and they know it.
And no LOL, Mrs Ivan is Darling, Sweetheart, etc - never ever anything disparaging - she's just the best - who like Claire on here can put her hand to building a car and engine.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
hope it wasn't being rude
Sod their rights sounds like you need a taser.
I need a taser too...
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Sod their rights sounds like you need a taser.
I need a taser too...
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Originally posted by IvanUnfortunately they seem to have more rights than people as they are protected and you may not hurt the little darlings, and they know it.
Pity you have that problem Ivan.
I might point out that it's only some parts of South Africa where that happens, here in PE the wildlife mostly keeps to itself.
Did I ever tell you about the time I had a windscreen broken FROM THE INSIDE by a baboon that invaded my car to steal sweets when I stopped at the Sir
Lowries's pass view site above Cape Town years ago?
Cheers
Fred W B
Or
"warning to penguins, don't go under cars"
Cheers
Chris
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Originally posted by Fred W B
Did I ever tell you about the time I had a windscreen broken FROM THE INSIDE by a baboon that invaded my car to steal sweets when I stopped at the Sir Lowries's pass view site above Cape Town years ago?
Fred W B
