Ivan
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 12:25 PM |
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It's an adrenaline rush
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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TimC
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 12:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ivan
beats ... recreational drugs any day.
Who you trying to kid? What have you been popping? 
In fairness we don't get that very often in Wales.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 12:41 PM |
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hope it wasn't being rude
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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omega0684
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 12:43 PM |
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you better be careful, you don't want to mess with him, he might ring up baloo,kahn and bagira!
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 12:54 PM |
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A babboon eh? Hmm, I reckon I'd fight it.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 01:01 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mistergrumpy
A babboon eh? Hmm, I reckon I'd fight it.
hmmm I don't know, looks like awful big teeth
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 01:04 PM |
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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.
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Ivan
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 01:13 PM |
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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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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 01:56 PM |
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quote:
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
yeah that should really pi$$ it off!!
have you checked for missing limbs? 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Ivan
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 02:22 PM |
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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.
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omega0684
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 03:07 PM |
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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?
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 03:16 PM |
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Maybe there's a baboon flap in the door?
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Ivan
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 04:37 PM |
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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]
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chrisg
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 04:44 PM |
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Am I missing something here?
Babboon/living room
Explain...
Unless it's your pet name for Mrs Ivan?
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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nstrug
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 04:52 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
Am I missing something here?
Babboon/living room
Explain...
Unless it's your pet name for Mrs Ivan?
Have a look where Ivan lives...
I had to eject two bloody great hornets from the living room today - not quite as impressive as baboons I'll admit but its about as scary as it
gets in Surrey.
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Ivan
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 05:01 PM |
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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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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 07:06 PM |
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quote:
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.
That sounds like the feral kids the roam the citys and housing schemes here in the UK.
Seems you need some Xpanda products
We installed some multiguards in La Lucia Durban north to keep monkeys and locals out.
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chrisg
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 08:01 PM |
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quote:
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.
Sod that for a game of soldiers, I ran in the house when we had a squirrel in the garden!!!!
I like my wildlife filleted and grilled
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Peteff
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 08:09 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
hope it wasn't being rude
No that's Gibbons who does rude things
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 09:04 PM |
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Sod their rights sounds like you need a taser.
I need a taser too...
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JoelP
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| posted on 25/5/09 at 09:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Sod their rights sounds like you need a taser.
I need a taser too...
i often think that too! Or a good cattle prod
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violentblue
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 04:20 AM |
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quote:
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.
Honestly they all just tripped and fell very hard head first onto the end of my baseball bat
a few pics of my other projects
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Fred W B
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 06:19 PM |
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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
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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Rod Ends
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 06:50 PM |
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chrisg
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 08:16 PM |
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Or
"warning to penguins, don't go under cars"
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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