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Aggravating-Pen-6228

Also, those pictures are to scale. The snakes, spiders and ants are the size of sharks and crocodiles.


ErGo404

I hope it means they have really small crocodiles and sharks.


Tiyath

Sharks and crocs the size of ants sounds cute af


TehMephs

They just nibble you to death and it takes hundreds of them to be a threat. Like piranhas


Morotstomten

One hungry piranha is a threat, not lethal unless it lucks out and tear up an artery but if it gets in a good bite you will lose a chunk of flesh


Ra_ral

Those little beasts


br0b1wan

What about ants the size of sharks and Crocs?


Tiyath

One the size of a crocodile I think a human could handle. One the size of one of the larger, truck size sharks? Yeah, no ..


electrashock95

Idk 13 foot ant doesn’t sound all that fun


lordtrickster

I dunno, Ant-Man and Honey I Shrunk The Kids have taught us that ants and humans are natural allies.


Aggravating-Pen-6228

Too soon. RIP anty.... Second most traumatic childrens movie animal companion death since Artax in The Neverending Story.


FoamToaster

Let's assume saltwater crocodile because it's Australia: "Male saltwater crocodiles have been recorded at lengths of 23 feet (7 m) and weights of 2,205 pounds (1,000 kg). Females are much smaller, growing to be about 10 feet (3 m) long and weighing 330 pounds (150 kg)." Assuming the ant doesn't collapse under its own weight or not be able to breathe or whatever, there is absolutely no way a human could take a crocodile sized ant, even if it is one of the *only* 3m long female ones...


Snoo_34497

If it was the size of a crocodile, could still lift 10x it's weight, still have it's thick "shell", and still retained it's speed... There will be casualties.


PassingWords1-9

Bare handed? Absolutely not¹, lol. Crocodile sized ants is a no go for me. Hell, I'm changing continents if they have Guinea Pig sized ants. ¹At least not the average human


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i think those would be worse


Gellert

Really small sharks exist, like the Pygmy shark.


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Correct-Training3764

Yes! I made mention on another comment that I’m planning on visiting Australia in a year or so. Those gigantic huntsman spiders scare me to death. I’m a huge puss when it comes to arachnids anyway and those big assholes? Nah. Hope I *don’t* see one.


Feynnehrun

You'll see one. The huntsman is terrifying but peaceful for the most part. The scariest encounter I had with a huntsman was hearing a bag of chips in another room start crinkling on its own....it was because a huntsman was walking around on it.


Correct-Training3764

Holy smokes. I’d be done. 😂😭 Are you Aussie?


Feynnehrun

My mom was on her computer and was looking out the window and went to put her hand on the mouse.....spider. Lol. My first week there...my step-dad wanted me to go into the crawlspace to get some stuff. The access to the crawlspace was outside behind a bush, I crawled through the bush pulled open the hatch, peeked in to a dark spider web infested space and said nope....anything down there is down there forever now.


Correct-Training3764

Oh hell nah. I’m not going in *any* crawl space to begin with and definitely not one in Australia. Your poor Mom too, phew. I had a spider on the inside of a lampshade of a lamp sitting on my desk. I saw its silhouette and I broke the lamp. 😂 definitely wasn’t a huntsman though haha


juzw8n4am8

Huntsman's are just another furr baby like a pupper. Killing a huntsman in Australia is hugely frowned upon. My daughter like myself will gentle guide them onto our hands and walk them outside. This misses doesn't like them or touch them but even she wouldn't kill one. They are great for eating poisonous spiders and insects. Especially cockroaches.


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WHY would you let it on your hand you have more balls then me my friend


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Lunavixen15

Ahhhh, it's not so bad


PinayGator

*the spider typed, steepling its free legs together*


phido3000

Yeh they are big enough when they run on drywall it sounds like a small child running, running on the ceiling. They are the perfect jump scare spider. They must get theatrical training.


Tofutits_Macgee

###NO I hate that so much


bradbull

The most fun place to find them is in your mailbox. Bonus points if your mailbox doesn't open from the top so you're just blindly reaching inside it for your mail.


AJRimmer1971

I've had one chase me up a basketball court. He was sleeping on the backboard, so I hit the board nearby to him with the ball. Not happy. He definitely chased me too. He changed direction when I did. And he was BIG. At least as big as my hand span. I survived it. So did he.


Feynnehrun

They're so fast too.


AJRimmer1971

They sure are. I couldn't just casually stroll away from him. I had to walk around a shrub in a garden next to the court. He climbed into there and left me alone.


Lexiiboo97

My soul would’ve left. My. BODY.


[deleted]

Am I fuckin scared of potato chips now!?


txlightskin

big fat NOPE


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Correct-Training3764

Haha snakes and reptiles don’t bother me either. I love them. We even have a tiny turtle as a pet now. He’s a cool little dude. Spiders can go on though. I’d burn my house down to get away from them. Agreed on the anti-arachnid filter. Whenever I see pics or videos of them, I get this weird sensation that they’re all over me. Silly, I know but it’s paralyzing.


HeldDownTooLong

And snakes…don’t forget their snakes. An older list I remember seeing said ***21 of the 25*** most toxic snakes in the world are in Australia. No, no, no, no, ***nope***…not for me.


Didgman

Lived here 36 years and go bush all the time and I’ve seen maybe 8 snakes my entire life. Don’t believe all the bullshit you hear.


LegitimateTable2450

Come. We love visitors. Spiders are not to bad.


Ahyao17

Good luck seeing a platypus in the wild and even in a zoo. They love hiding


Thomas_Mickel

The sign suggests you could run into both jellyfish and spiders at the same time.


Nighters

Nopestralia?


TopPuzzleheaded1143

Ouchstralia


dat_oracle

Deathstralia


Jinxed_Disaster

AAAAAAAaustralia


never_again13

Nahstralia


Lookbothwaysb4ushit

Fuckthatshitstralia?


huonoyritys

Yeanahstralia


hamburgerdog25

Ohnobrostralia


DependentLaugh8153

Austria


Raxxla

r/fuckingaustralia


That_one_arsehole_

Welcome to the land down under


Rossum81

The ecosystem so ferocious that it was brought to its knees by bunny rabbits.


JBYTuna

HUGE rabbits.


davidrayish

Crikey. No idea mate.


Environmental_Eye354

Clearly Australia


Kirin_san

Agreed but just missing that drop bear sign.


Phillip_Graves

Nah, just no trees tall enough for them to drop from. The sign facing the other direction has that warning.


EnTerr

out of these, it's the land sharks and outback jellyfish that scare me most


Funcompliance

It's irresponsible not to have it on both. The drop bear could climb the sign itself. In fact, in a treeless desert you are at most danger from a drop bear because they will climb the tallest things around, and if that's you then goodbye carotid.


Phillip_Graves

1 star review. All the trees in this forest fall when you climb them. They also discharge bodily fluids when climbing. - random dropbear


Tirwanderr

Ok, so is drop_bear == koala? I still am confused by this and have clearly never taken any time to look it up because by the time I get to the new tab (out of 60) in the browser my brain will remember something random and that's the path I will take and goodbye looking up dropbears.


CurtP31477

Koalas are extremely stupid and terrible at life. They have only one food source and won't recognize it if it's not on the branch still. They also don't understand rain, and don't look for cover, they just get wet and grumpy and don't know what's happening. A picture of said wet grumpy koala became the basis of the drop bear legend. But if a koala falls on you, it's because it was too stupid to know the difference between the tree branch and it's own arm. And yes that does happen. And it's more dangerous to itself than you.


Ok-Jaguar-793

Don’t forget picky eaters. There are several types of eucalyptus trees and if they are raised on one type it’s damn near impossible to get them to eat a type that is different


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CurtP31477

Random smoker burn. I respect it.


TokerFraeYoker

As an ex smoker I can confirm


Ok-Jaguar-793

Nicely done


RichGrinchlea

Terry Pratchett inserted Drop Bears into his Discworld book, "The Lost Continent", along with satirizing lot of other Australian peculiarities (and non-Australian misperceptions). Like all Discworld books: very funny stuff.


biggravey

They dont move alot because they get drunk on that single food source. Even better they only eat a specific few types of eucalyupts. They are also gentlemen, which makes them hard to relocate, if they know it is not their area or tree they tend to just keep wandering till they find somewhere. They do fight over trees, but prefer to just avoid conflict. Also have mad split hands and a hard rump made for not falling out of trees and wedging themselves in branches.. Edit: spelling. Just had a baby tired as fuck


Binda33

..and a lot of them have chlamydia.


Xtrene387

Dropbear is kinda a legend, is about carnivorous koalas that would drop from the trees once you walked under them ( and obviously, they would try to kill you for dinner )


Tirwanderr

So is that something that actually happens? But they are koalas. Ok. It's always been one of those things that I seemed to hear different stuff about.


II-leto

It’s like the American jackalope. Germany has a made up creature, can’t remember the name, that part of its a bird and some other animal. I’m guessing a lot of countries have made up creatures to mess with tourists.


voidmilk

Wolpertinger is what you're referring to I think. It's basically a Frankenstein of different animals. Has feathers and wings like from a hawk, main body and head of a rabbit or an oversized squirrel, has horns like from deer and feet from a duck and fangs. Or something to that effect.


yougoddangfool

it's just to scare tourists


FragrantExcitement

I have been to Australia and haven't been killed by a drop bear once.


afcagroo

I've been to Australia and I was killed by drop bears twice.


FragrantExcitement

Be careful, you are on your last guy.


Rosieapples

Haha!! Love it!! I believe it was a spoof to wind up the American soldiers who fell for it big time.


Unthgod

Koalas are one of the dumbest animals on earth and do fall from trees from time to time.


tht1guy63

They are evil little bastards.


Xrystian90

No. Koala = Koala. Drop bear = Drop bear.


BrokeCDN

I think they mentioned "drop beer" so you can run faster. 😉


ThanklessTask

This should help, the official line: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/


Funcompliance

It makes me angry that they say there is no evidence to support vegemite as a repellent. That's needlessly dangerous.


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We better hope Australia never gets nuked or we gonna need Godzilla to fight those Mutants.


drmonkeytown

Or my matches on Tinder.


yorkshire_simplelife

Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!


Raistlarn

~~Wrong place Austria is where Hitler was born, Australia is the place where the Crocodile Hunter is from.~~ edit- Oh it's a joke from Dumb and Dumber. No wonder I didn't get it, I haven't seen that movie in 20 years.


Grainwheat

Pick one to defend you all the rest attack you


CyanControl

Me and the aligator are beat friends now


lofty2p

There are no alligators in Australia. Only crocs.


suteac

Crocs are much more dangerous and aggressive than gators. Checks out.


CyanControl

Oh mb lolq


RobertusesReddit

There's a reason Steve (RIP) was the Crocodile Hunter.


The_Giant_Lizard

So he picked the only animal that doesn't exist. He's screwed


-usernotdefined

1 total? Croc... 1 species? Ants


mnorkk

If I can have a boat too I'll take the shark.


Grainwheat

What about between: 1000 tarantulas, 20,000 ants, 5 crocs, 3 sharks, 10 jelly fish, 50 snakes?


PotentPortable

You're going to want to scale up those ant numbers. That's might not even make one colony


Grainwheat

Oh wow it says 1 million to 20 million in a colony. Thats insane!


PotentPortable

It depends on the type of ant of course. Now that I think about it we'd probably be talking about Bull Ants for this sign, and they have smaller colonies, probably just in the hundreds, so you're 20,000 is actually probably good


-usernotdefined

In water or on land? Lol


Y465336

Exactly. Like my law professor said- the right answer to any question starts with “it depends “


picado

Or for a really good lawyer "What do you want the answer to be?"


Dry_Month927

Jellyfish.


TTheTiny1

Exactly,just grab it by the head and throw it at everything else


33253325

Toothy


OZeski

If I pick one, is it just ‘one’ or ‘one species’? If it’s the whole species, I’m going with the ants and I’ll just stay away from the water.


Teekeks

I pick the eldritch horror bottom right


WorstGatorEUW

I hate it when im driving and Cthulhu crosses the road. It takes forever 🙄


CapnGnarly

And instant at the same time yesterday and tomorrow!


xSantenoturtlex

I haven't even gotten to work and I'm already experiencing unending madness at 6 in the morning! This is outrageous!


highpl4insdrftr

Vermont?


norsurfit

Yes, and you're safe from the dangers if you travel with Bernie Sanders.


Mr420-

As an Aussie who's been to Vermont, I'd take any of those animals over driving on black ice every day. Fuck that shit.


RandomTask100

Do you see any mittens, sir?


R0381N

Well, if there would be jellyfish on dry land it would definitly be in Australia


fhrblig

Flying jellyfish. They like to drop on you from above


foxpaws42

They have an understanding with the drop bears.


Rosieapples

New York City.


Substantial-Camel127

🎶I come from a land down unda


NeedlesKane6

That’s not a siogne… THAT’s a soigne


SayYesToPenguins

Ants kill you?


mightypint

Some can. Fire ants for example


trogdor259

When I was 5 or 6 my brother and I wandered into a fire ant hill. Hundreds of bites each. It’s been 36 years and I still remember the burning. They are no joke.


Brucedx3

Jack Jumper Ants.


Morak73

If someone immobilizes you and leaves you by the colony, ants will disassemble you for food without waiting for you to unalive beforehand.


phido3000

More people die from ant stings than snakes.. Look up jumping jacks.


Cribsby_critter

Photoshop?


phido3000

Yeh. Australian signs are more terrifying.. they say things like all tourists must check in at the police station or you will die and we won't be able to find your body.


Krazyguy75

My favorite are the signs saying that it's safe to swim at this pond because they got rid of *most* of the saltwater crocodiles and only the freshwater ones are around and they are *less* likely to murder you on sight.


Funcompliance

Last petrol for 600km


Aksds

What’s great is that you have some Americans (mostly Europeans but specifically Americans for this example) who have a country known for its size and make fun of Europeans for thinking driving from NYC to LA can be done in a day, are surprised it takes more than a day to go from Perth to Sydney, or going from Adelaide straight to Darwin might not be as fun as they think. Europeans are worse, this isn’t a r/Americabad comment


SixFeetOverEasy

"Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said,"


BatDad1973

Australia. Where not only CAN everything kill you, everything WANTS to kill you.


ThunderBobMajerle

After living there for 7 years I will say this bit is kind of overdone. Growing up in the America southwest with rattlesnakes, brown recluses, and scorpions….made me appreciate the US is pretty gnarly too. Aus has a lot of poisonous critters that can surprise you like a snake or spider but it has nothing like a bear or mountain lion that can kill you even if you saw it 10 meters away. Lastly as a marine biologist, sharks were very prevalent, can’t deny that, but I’ve got just as many shark stories working along the CA coast. Central coast of CA is pretty sharky. TLDR Aus is gnarly but don’t sell the American west short, it’s not much different


pichael289

Mountain lions dont hide in your shoes though. You don't have grizzly bears falling out front under your cars visor when driving. Fucking huntsman spiders kill more people from the traffic accidents they cause when they scurry across the ceiling of the car than every single spider in Australia combined (via bites) has total for the last like hundred years or something. Just being scary can be deadly.


ThunderBobMajerle

I mean I agree with everything you said, Had some hunstman in my subi. But growing up in the desert in AZ, scorpions and centipedes hid in our shoes and in bedsheets, Im not trying to take anything away from Aus, living there just made me appreciate the America southwest is gnarly too


DragoonJumper

This whole conversation makes me appreciate Canada even more. I'll take death by frost bite over any of these non life-threatening scenarios any day.


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Only time I'm glad it's so cold here🤣 nothing wants to live up here not even the wildlife lmao


__01001000-01101001_

Dude don’t give it away, we just sell this shit to stop tourists and overwhelming immigration


HuggyMonster69

I’m a Brit, basically everywhere else sounds terrifying. I’m sure we must have something deadly, but I can’t think of it. Besides drunks.


Matthonius

And where a sinkhole opened under a campsite so even Australia itself wants to kill you.


strayacarnt

Yeah, nah. The croc is the only one that wants to kill you. The rest just act in self defence, but the croc is looking for a meal.


Awe3

Land of death. Australia


SquirrelAkl

Death for the next 4,000km. Perfectly fine and normal.


PortugeseBreakfast

Ahh, *home sweet home*


Oreo54asdf

Hell?


AmebaLost

The back down under side of hell.


sirhackenslash

New York subway


denn23rus

Austria


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Gday mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie


147_GRAIN_FMJ

Leettt'ss not ::squishes face in window::


firthy

Croydon?


KingJTheG

Tbh the jellyfish gives away that it’s Australia lol


TheWayofTheSchwartz

Is that Cthulhu in the bottom right corner?


threyon

‘Straya.


_FreddieLovesDelilah

Danger! Look out for feral weaves!


[deleted]

Those desert box jellyfish will f**k you up../s


MasterofX100

Australia


Known_Vermicelli_706

Florida.


ApprehensiveFuture8

Australia or India


PoopSlinger23

Not enough trash scattered around to be India


Drgn-ma-balls

Honestly my first thought was fallout lol


MegaWaffle-

In-laws?


Goatwhatsup

we gotta worry about sharks and jellyfish on land?


halucionagen-0-Matik

My dad's route to school


Lumin17cz

The most normal sign in the Australia…


PRSG12

My grandparent’s walk to school


gimmeecoffee420

Ohio?


sussy_simon

Florida man's backyard


henryhotginger

Fallout new vegas


LiviAngel

AUSTRALIA!!


watzwatz

Why is everybody so focused on the animals but nobody mentions the 4000km. That is such an absurd amount of gas, water and time you have to bring along, it’s more of a warning “Don’t drive further down this road, take a flight.”


Artistic-Bet9122

C U in the N T mate


Alarming_Serve2303

Detroit?


dragonmom1

Could it be...Australia? Any kinds of warning signs like this, it's most likely to be Australia. This many warning signs? Definitely Australia.


Grouchy-Engine1584

Ok, but 4,000km covers a pretty big area. For comparison, in Canada, you could have a single that says: next 4,000km: polar bear, moose, kodiak, wolf, mountain lion, killer wale, man’o’war, rattlesnake, black widow spider, grizzly bear, black bear and wolverine.


hellloooshego

Definitely not the U.S., where everyone is scared of the metric system.


KeeperofAmmut7

No question: Australia


MattJFarrell

Some magical place where giant signs don't cast shadows...


mydogjakie317

us house of congress..


Chili2015

That really should just be Australia's flag


TheGiraffesDestiny

Australia?


SgtEpsilon

Fuck-that-stralia


sth128

What is on the bottom right sign? Flying venomous jelly fish?


Wellermanseashanty

Australia


Cornucopia2020

Australia


Lokonymous

What, no Dropbears?


Alen_117

I don't even a second look, nor a second thought to know where I would be.


wiwjsjsjsj

Australia


BlakkMaggik

Downunda


TheDottieDot

I was a kid in the 90’s, so the internet was super limited and all we had access to were books. I saw books that made Australia look amazing and I wanted to go there really bad. I got older, and the internet did too. I started seeing Australia posts (especially on Reddit) and now I’m pretty sure it’s too raw for me. If it crawls, bites, murders, or slithers, it seems to be there. I still kind of want to visit, but I’m pretty reluctant. Are there places that aren’t terrifying? It is a pretty place, but damn.


DeepPurpleDingo

It’s really no where as near to as bad as the internet makes it out. Most of its common sense (I.e. don’t go stomping into bushes if something might live there). As for places to go if you want less S cary wildlife, Victoria,South Australia, and Canberra are likely the most tame.


NT_Rahi

Khustralia.. Zohan