when i was an age i don't remember lets go with 11 or 12, we were living in the Kimberly's in Kununurra and at a family friends property having dinner, they had a pet pink and grey galah in a cage, and if you bobbed up and down and said dance cocky dance, well guess what the bird would bob up and down and repeat what you said, so there i am playing with the bird, next thing i know dad booms Tristan don't move, so the first thing i do is move to turn and look at him like what did i do now, then he says there is a snake next too you and sure enough, there is a big king brown all reared up look at me.
so just like a cat in the videos i go from standing position to a meter in the air and some how simultaneously sideways i was fine and safe not even shaken, alas i cannot say the same for mister snake, he got his head kicked in by some steal cap boots.
oh i remembered another im say 14 or 15 now, still in Kununurra, and i had a mate staying over on the weekend we were playing computer games as you do, and it was well into the wee hours of the morning my mate had gone to bed and an hour or so later i decided to go as well, as i'm walking into the spare bedroom\ironing room, i see in the moon light something that looks like its a long thin thing going from the ironing board and leaning against the wall going up, im' thinning that's an odd shadow, but my primal senses are telling me something is not quite right\safe so i tun on the light and lo and be hold its a young King Brown checking things out, i woke dad up and well another sad ending this snake got shot with an air rifle, but he managed to slip between the bricks at the bottom of the wall and get under the house, never found out if it survived or not. (our house was on stilts but ground level)
and another one my parents had 2 cats Pure bred ragdolls, our cats were indoor cats, so when we let them out side we were out with them and when we went back in so did the cats, and the cats always stayed inside the fence line, well 1 kitted walked down the side of the house and as i walked around to make sure she was not doing anything silly i see shes jumping around kinda playing with something so i walk down and have a look and shes found a young king brown to play with, i shoo said kitty away as i think this is a game that could end badly for the kitty, and then dad chopped the snakes head off with an axe :/ , and 10-20min later the kitty was still alive and healthy (even to this day ) so i guess she was a bit faster than the snake that day.
if you had not guessed my dad does not like snakes, hes never intentionally cruel and does not go out of his way to kill them but if they are around the house etc then they are fair game, he does not even like my SWCP wont go near it let alone have a hold.
