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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostYou could almost be me. I got malaria in Nigeria when I was 2 and survived thanks to there being a well trained military doctor in town. No marburg though. Mother was bitten by a white scorpion and spent two weeks in bed in agony. Father crashed his motorbike into a donkey and smashed up his knee. The donkey walked away.
One day the elephants escaped from the local chief's garden and rampaged through the market causing panic and a few deaths (they didn't really bother to count in those days).
Good fun all round.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI got bitten by one of those when we lived in Nigeria (hundreds at the bottom of the garden along with crocodiles and other exotica.) It gave me Green Money Disease according to my parents but I'm not too sure about that as its also known as Marburg disease and is similar to Ebola (also got Malaria while out there.)
One day the elephants escaped from the local chief's garden and rampaged through the market causing panic and a few deaths (they didn't really bother to count in those days).
Good fun all round.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostRemember staying in the Wankie National Park in Rhodesia once with lions at the bottom of the garden and we once had a looney wild one roaming the streets when living in Illiondale (RSA.) While living there a group of us used to go out after school catching Rinkhals to sell to the local snake farm for their venom. One ever lasting image is of walking home and all the Meercats watching you as you went past. In the dusk it can be a bit off-putting.
Fantastic. please tell us more
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Remember staying in the Wankie National Park in Rhodesia once with lions at the bottom of the garden and we once had a looney wild one roaming the streets when living in Illiondale (RSA.) While living there a group of us used to go out after school catching Rinkhals to sell to the local snake farm for their venom. One ever lasting image is of walking home and all the Meercats watching you as you went past. In the dusk it can be a bit off-putting.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
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Originally posted by zeitghost
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There's a Staffordshire Bull Terrier mooching around my back garden.
Oh, wait... he's mine!
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