OK all had a wee incident with skippy last night in my lancer ( yes i know the one night i dont take the patrol ) anyway I was travelling through an area where there were lots of roos I knew they were there and was travelling at 30 - 40 kms in the middle of the road when bugger me dead this silly roo jumped out of the bush and head butted my passenger door!!! Just wondering if those whistle things people seem to stick on the front of their cars really work??? ANY Ideas???
Cheers
Scotty
I have those whistle things on the front of my Car but dont know whether they work. Have not hit any Kangaroos with them on but does that prove anything
GU4u (23rd February 2011)
i have worked as a pro shooter for many years and had a set of them on my shooting bus ...............nope they dont work ..........lmao
HELL NO !!!!!!
GU4u (23rd February 2011)
the whistles might work havnt heard any thing on them roos always jump when you think they wont
GU4u (23rd February 2011)
I'm a roo hitting expert....100% they do not work.
In fact I think the high pitch noise actually attracts them. I did hear that Nissan or Toyota did a test on the whistler and they in fact were intruiged by the sound and came towards it but again, just a story, can't be sure it was true.
All I do now is keep the speed very low, scan the sides of roads and keep the high beams off in bad areas.
They get scared easy and seem to jump towards the lights...
I have hit 3 roos with high beams and none on low beams.
Unpredictable buggers!!!
GU4u (23rd February 2011)
I drive to Griffith often and the Roos the other side of Echuca are thick as flies and seem to be dazzled by High Beams. I sit in the middle of the Road with lights on Low Beam and sometimes turn them off if it is a Moonlit night.Originally Posted by AB
For sure Bob, I have hit 3 in the last 2 years with a commodore wagon which have fairly decent headlights for stock.
My brother has a GU ute with factory lights and they are fairly poor lighting on low beam and has never ever hit one in this area and has been here for over 5 years.
Those whistler things suck.
They are designed on the theory the Roo's won't ike the sound so they panic and hop away. Well, that does happen, all except the away bit. When Roos panic they hop evrey bl00dy direction and the ones that weren't dazzled that you would have missed come into the equation
The other big difference is that other animals with more brains now start running around as well. A Family member had an interest in a Trucking Company in the NT which used to run express freight up and down the Stuart with 3 Road Trains. They used to collect a steer about once or twice a year and a heap of Roo's, wallaby's etc.
They put those whistlers on and within 3 months had belted a 1/2 dozen steers and had to hire a Prime Mover to keep the run going when all 3 hit cows within 48 hours. Ripped the Whistlers off and no further hassles. Theory was the cows that would normally graze within metres of the road and ignore the traffic were sh1tt1n' 'emselves and running out at the last second.
Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
might be worth fitting some foglights that shine well to the side, based on what I've read here - plus would perhaps help off road in tight corners etc.
I can hear cars on the road when on farms a k from the road. Surely roos have better hearing than me and can also hear them. They can also hear the shu roos (and two of my country cousins have them, but the rest don't believe in them) - I can see shu roos etc working when the sound is unfamiliar and thus scares the roos. However .......
I'm always sceptical of gimmicky looking items.
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