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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrilled neck lizard attacks man who helped it out of road
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/furious-frilled-neck-lizard-chases-teen-australia-article-1.2661122Ricky Mackenzie, 18, noticed the outraged beastie on a dirt road in Western Australia and made the mistake of trying to assist it out of the way of oncoming cars, according to the Daily Star.
"I see a lot of frillies. I didn't want this one to get run over. I tried to help but he didn't want a bar of it," Mackenzie told Storyful. "It climbed right up my body. I had to pull it off and it then ran away.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/furious-frilled-neck-lizard-chases-teen-australia-article-1.2661122
Ricky Mackenzie, 18, recently spotted a frilled-neck lizard on a dirt road in Western Australia’s Kimberley region and tried to help it out of the way. But the lizard didn’t want his help, and went after him with a ferocity that has to be seen to be believed:
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Frilled neck lizard attacks man who helped it out of road (Original Post)
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2016
OP
People keep forgetting what the adjective "wild" in the phrase "wild animals" means. n/t
Binkie The Clown
Jun 2016
#8
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)1. Don't know which makes me cringe more
The lizard, or the fact that the guy is tearing around on those stones in bare feet. 
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)3. Double ouch.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)6. He must have thick soles and brave to let lizard. Crawl up him
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)2. Well, that's one way to get him out of the road.
qnr
(16,190 posts)10. That's what I was thinking n/t
WillowTree
(5,350 posts)5. How did that Al Wilson song go again? Oh yeah.......
Last edited Sat Jun 4, 2016, 11:14 PM - Edit history (1)
........"You knew darn well I was a snake before you brought me in".
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)7. Australia
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)8. People keep forgetting what the adjective "wild" in the phrase "wild animals" means. n/t
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)9. Everyone knows frilled-neck lizards are ungrateful jerks.
They aren't called lizards for nothing.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)11. Things that live in the desert will kick your ass.
Rex
(65,616 posts)12. Got to watch out for the bigger ones.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)13. Lol.yeah
Yupster
(14,308 posts)14. I scooped a bee out of my pool a few days ago
and he stung me on the finger.
Ungrateful little thing.
Male bees don't have stings.