When I was in Townsville Australia, our Team Doc was showing us a pre-deployment safety presentation . After about 25 or 30 slides into "Death by Powerpoint," he stopped and said "Look guys, I can continue for another hour or just sum it up....for the most part, if it wiggles, crawls, slithers, swims, or creeps, it's probably deadly poisonous. Don't F#$%^&* touch it." Brief over. He was right. I awoke the next morning to a Centipede in my toilet bowl!!! But the place was beautiful.
When Julia McLennan heard her baby cry out in the middle of the night, she thought he was probably just hungry. The last thing she expected to find was a baby python in her eight-week-old-son Hamish's bassinet.
The NSW Rural Fire Service says the number of people killed in bushfires on the South Coast will likely rise as the extent of the devastation is revealed.
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