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@Nepia wtf!!! That's outrageous!
Yep, it's a racket!
I was parked at Milsons point and it was $8 an hour , I was just about to pay up and the electrician asked to borrow my hammer and he smashed washers into all the coin slots and left a note on his van saying he couldn’t pay because the meter was broken .
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So in non-coronavirus related news ...
Not sure where to start with this other than I think I was was being a drama queen but there was a chance I wasn't. And I took the conservative, just in case option and have no regrets.
We recently bought a house and relocated. Those who have followed this thread may recall the story of how our pussy cats murdered a poor unassuming snake at our new place a few months ago.
Anyway, the idiot former owners of our place planted the gardens out with multitudinous yuccas:
a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.[2] Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry (arid) parts of the Americas and the Caribbean.Yuccas are quite good looking, and really suit a formal landscaped garden.
But my fuck do they have thorns...
... https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9343216Mrs Boo, who isn't big on swearing, suggests all our neighbours hear is a continuous stream of profanity (fuck, motherfucker, oww, c-word, damn, fuck) as these arsehole plants jam themselves into our anatomy as we try and remove them from our garden.
This repeated itself on Saturday.
So, come Saturday afternoon, cleaning up after removing excess vegetation from the garden and preparing to wander inside for a clensing ale and a couple of games of Super Rugby, I have multitudinous (my current favorite word) puncture wounds which I routinely ignore, including, as I look at my wrist just above my gardening gloves a couple of prices reasonably close together, bleeding quite a bit and at pretty much the same rate, suggesting they had occurred simultaneously.
Immediate reaction was ouch! They're a bit sore, and wiped off the blood.
Then I looked and thought, hmm, they're a bit inform.
And gosh, that's starting to swell a bit.
Now puncture wounds from yuccas can produce some serious bruising (speaking from experience). They're the plant from hell. So I'm 99% certain they're yucca wounds.
But 1% wondering if Sammy Snake's cuzzy had snuck up on me.
That 1% kind if really worried me.
So called Mrs Boo to look, she called me drama queen, told me that she had a nail appointment booked and to harden up.
Anyway she drove me to the hospital, at reasonably illegal speeds, whereupon they told me I was there for 12 hours while they monitored me in case there was any envenomation. Ended up being 18 hours, but small price to pay.
Several things arose from this:
- ER apparently get a lot of potential snake bites. Mine (before they even saw the wound) was one of the more likely cases of actual snake bite (despite me being reluctant to think it actually was one).
- 90% of snake bites are "dry bites". Plenty of venomous snakes will bite but haven't had a chance to milk their glands if they've been surprised.
- Nursies, once they saw wound(s) seemed to think there was reason to think "something had got me". Lots of bruising around the area (but as noted yucca are fluffyrabbits).
Will try and load photo of wound site.
BTW the puncture further up the heal if my hand was definitely yucca.I'm still of the opinion that on the balance of probabilities it was yucca punctures, but am glad I did I did go and get it checked out.
Straya!
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So in non-coronavirus related news ...
Not sure where to start with this other than I think I was was being a drama queen but there was a chance I wasn't. And I took the conservative, just in case option and have no regrets.
We recently bought a house and relocated. Those who have followed this thread may recall the story of how our pussy cats murdered a poor unassuming snake at our new place a few months ago.
Anyway, the idiot former owners of our place planted the gardens out with multitudinous yuccas:
a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.[2] Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry (arid) parts of the Americas and the Caribbean.Yuccas are quite good looking, and really suit a formal landscaped garden.
But my fuck do they have thorns...
... https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9343216Mrs Boo, who isn't big on swearing, suggests all our neighbours hear is a continuous stream of profanity (fuck, motherfucker, oww, c-word, damn, fuck) as these arsehole plants jam themselves into our anatomy as we try and remove them from our garden.
This repeated itself on Saturday.
So, come Saturday afternoon, cleaning up after removing excess vegetation from the garden and preparing to wander inside for a clensing ale and a couple of games of Super Rugby, I have multitudinous (my current favorite word) puncture wounds which I routinely ignore, including, as I look at my wrist just above my gardening gloves a couple of prices reasonably close together, bleeding quite a bit and at pretty much the same rate, suggesting they had occurred simultaneously.
Immediate reaction was ouch! They're a bit sore, and wiped off the blood.
Then I looked and thought, hmm, they're a bit inform.
And gosh, that's starting to swell a bit.
Now puncture wounds from yuccas can produce some serious bruising (speaking from experience). They're the plant from hell. So I'm 99% certain they're yucca wounds.
But 1% wondering if Sammy Snake's cuzzy had snuck up on me.
That 1% kind if really worried me.
So called Mrs Boo to look, she called me drama queen, told me that she had a nail appointment booked and to harden up.
Anyway she drove me to the hospital, at reasonably illegal speeds, whereupon they told me I was there for 12 hours while they monitored me in case there was any envenomation. Ended up being 18 hours, but small price to pay.
Several things arose from this:
- ER apparently get a lot of potential snake bites. Mine (before they even saw the wound) was one of the more likely cases of actual snake bite (despite me being reluctant to think it actually was one).
- 90% of snake bites are "dry bites". Plenty of venomous snakes will bite but haven't had a chance to milk their glands if they've been surprised.
- Nursies, once they saw wound(s) seemed to think there was reason to think "something had got me". Lots of bruising around the area (but as noted yucca are fluffyrabbits).
Will try and load photo of wound site.
BTW the puncture further up the heal if my hand was definitely yucca.I'm still of the opinion that on the balance of probabilities it was yucca punctures, but am glad I did I did go and get it checked out.
Straya!
Quite the hairy arms there Booboo! Got to admit it was the first thing I noticed like....
Ouch though!!! There's no way you could risk not getting it checked ay...
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@NTA jesus!!! That's a horror story right there.
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@R-L the only maintenance once needs for yucca:
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@booboo walk it off.
I read a stat recently that yucca plants are responsible for a lot of cases of punctured ear drums - people pick them up to move them, turn their head to avoid spiking their eyes, and BAM right in the ear hole.
If the spiders, snakes. Crocs don’t kill ya the local fauna will!
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@booboo walk it off.
I read a stat recently that yucca plants are responsible for a lot of cases of punctured ear drums - people pick them up to move them, turn their head to avoid spiking their eyes, and BAM right in the ear hole.
If the spiders, snakes. Crocs don’t kill ya the local fauna will!
Walking a couple of years ago there was a farking tree with NEUROTOXINS that could kill you if they got airborne and you breathed them in.
Fark That.
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@booboo walk it off.
I read a stat recently that yucca plants are responsible for a lot of cases of punctured ear drums - people pick them up to move them, turn their head to avoid spiking their eyes, and BAM right in the ear hole.
If the spiders, snakes. Crocs don’t kill ya the local fauna will!
Walking a couple of years ago there was a farking tree with NEUROTOXINS that could kill you if they got airborne and you breathed them in.
Fark That.
The earth, animal and plant kingdom HATES us!!! 😱
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Dont forget its lovely weather as well, oh and the bush fires...
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Manscaping ...
... yeah well the nurse took great delight in making space for the stick-on electrodes for the telemetry.
Dunno why she bothered. The stickiness of those things seem to be specifically designed NOT to stick to hair while they're in use but hang on grimly when you want to remove them.
Wax on, wax off.
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@booboo walk it off.
I read a stat recently that yucca plants are responsible for a lot of cases of punctured ear drums - people pick them up to move them, turn their head to avoid spiking their eyes, and BAM right in the ear hole.
The eardrum thing was in that ABC story I linked in the post.
Straya!
