Strange encounters on the trails

So the Yarra trails I ride often throw up a few surprises. They’re basically shared and really close to the city so some days it’s like every freak is out.
Today I was hanging it out on one of the dh lines the kids build off Wurundjeri Spur, not a section you’d expect to find anyone not on a mtb, and spotted police tape across the trail. I go around the tape slowly and the 1 officer I initially saw becomes 3, then 6, maybe 10 total. Not mucking around. One approached me, very somber, so I asked if everyone was ok, thinking maybe one of the kids had binned it badly. He confirmed no one had been injured riding fortunately.
He then suggested purposefully that I do not look over that side of the trail as someone is deceased, and inferring I’m unlikely to be able to stomach what I get an eyeful of. Got the hell out of there.
I’ve seen plenty of odd shit around my local over the years but, geez
 
Not so much on the trail, but...


I am riding along the pacific highway (or city road or Stuart avenue) which is probably the busiest road in town here. There isn't really a lot of spots for a car to safely pull over and a lot of the ride is on a piss weak shoulder, but sure enough...as I approach one of the spots where a car could pull over someone has indeed pulled over. It looks like they did it in a hurry too! Car is barely off the road, 1 wheel in the culvert, and I have no shoulder to ride on. There is a gap in traffic so I cross over and ride towards oncoming traffic which is pretty unnerving.

Anyway as I come up next to the car I look over at it and there is a man in the passenger seat turned back to the door and holding his phone in a position I would say is for the purposes of shining his torch on his lap or (as the sun is shining brightly) filming his lap. Behold! There is someone else in the car and judging by their body position on the driver's side (arse up at the window) they are either looking for a dropped cigarette lighter in this man's lap or (as there is no eratic movement one would imagine should the cigarette lighter have been dropped into this man's lap) delivering an urgent roadside head job. Which the passenger is recording. The man waved to me. I waved back.

This is not the first time I have passed people performing such antics on this stretch of highway. Of all the places! Where can I find someone who will drive me to glenrock lagoon and perform an urgent roadside head job along way?
 
As I said in the other thread went to Wylde yesterday. Loads of roos all around almost got cleaned up as they jumped across the trail. Anyway the strangest encounter, stopped on Smiles for Miles on the side of the track to see if there was a way to get back to the top quickly for the cool jump section anyway there's some long grass there, all of a sudden a massive lump gets up out of nowhere, a big farken gray male, puffs out his chest and is giving me the stares, I stare back and he realises I'm no threat and bounds away. Geez he was a big bugger 6 foot easy. 😲

edit happened to fast so I couldn't get a photo which is annoying
 
F G said:
all of a sudden a massive lump gets up out of nowhere, a big farken gray male, puffs out his chest and is giving me the stares, I stare back and he realises I'm no threat and bounds away. Geez he was a big bugger 6 foot easy. 😲

edit happened to fast so I couldn't get a photo which is annoying
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Ah yes, this guy. The whole family was laying across the trail a few visits ago. They move on, but not in a big hurry.

https://www.rotorburn.com/forums/in...your-bike-today.235524/page-2421#post-3614935
 
Not on the trails but I pass this house on my commute.

This is what happens when you decide to not mow your lawn anymore and basically give up on life.
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It's that awful running grass and it is now growing up and over the fence.
 
pink poodle said:
I've had worse lawn. At it's deepest it was high enough to hide a dead Mitsubishi van. I hadn't given up on life, I just placed zero value on lawn care and spent my time riding bikes, snowboarding, and chasing women.
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I gather there won't be a 'Pink Poodles Lawn Mowing' service in Newcastle's future any time soon :cool:

How did grass ever manage before people decided that it had to be a orderly looking lawn. Go free range and swallow that Mitsubishi as nature intended !
I'd bet there a few of Mitsubishi Zero winged WW2 models that have had the same fate on tropical islands too.
 
pink poodle said:
I've had worse lawn. At it's deepest it was high enough to hide a dead Mitsubishi van. I hadn't given up on life, I just placed zero value on lawn care and spent my time riding bikes, snowboarding, and chasing women.
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I don't like lawn or a yard that's a lot of maintenance, but I also don't like my place looking like it's some crack house either.😛
I just finished redoing my front yard and there's no lawn at all now.
 
I can almost bet my left testicle that it's a rental, the kents next door to me wait until it's waist height before they cut it, and most of the time I cut it myself because I've had enough.

The father works 7 days a week running a panel shop, and friggen kids all at working age sit in inside the house doing nothing all day.
When he cuts the lawn, it's like watching an animal start to die. He cuts about 10m at a time and runs out of energy because it is such a struggle to cut it at that length with the push mower.

All the weeds have come through, so now it grows even faster than it did when it was lawn grass. They can't work out that it's less work to cut regularly than to let it grow that tall.
 
Flow-Rider said:
I can almost bet my left testicle that it's a rental, the kents next door to me wait until it's waist height before they cut it, and most of the time I cut it myself because I've had enough.

The father works 7 days a week running a panel shop, and friggen kids all at working age sit in inside the house doing nothing all day.
When he cuts the lawn, it's like watching an animal start to die. He cuts about 10m at a time and runs out of energy because it is such a struggle to cut it at that length with the push mower.

All the weeds have come through, so now it grows even faster than it did when it was lawn grass. They can't work out that it's less work to cut regularly than to let it grow that tall.
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Hey! Xbox and bongs ain’t doing nothin m8!
 
Stredda said:
I don't like lawn or a yard that's a lot of maintenance, but I also don't like my place looking like it's some crack house either.😛
I just finished redoing my front yard and there's no lawn at all now.
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Lucky you live in Tassie as we only have to cut the lawns two periods of the year Oct-early Dec and Apr- to mid May. Lawns die off in summer don't grow over winter.

Stredda if you lived in Sydney or North your cutting your lawns all the time . Summer it's worse in Sydney. I swear I've cut the lawn in the afternoon. Storm comes in intense rain for 20 minutes. Get up in the morning and it's grown an inch.

Some people in Tassie would think my lawn image below needs a good cut. I swear some of my neighboors are just annal about cutting there lawn
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I think I may have mentioned this before but the house next door is vacant and they don’t mow the lawn until they get a notice from the council.

Then they get someone in who does a shit job, leaves piles of the cut grass everywhere and some of the garden beds have grass/weeds up to a metre high, council has been there and even asked for access to our place to take photos of the backyard.

When the council was discussing it with Mrs Cammas, they said the people don’t give a shit and don’t do anything until threatened with fines, if you don’t want to live there either sell it or rent it out.

Then the owners came to us asking if we had cameras in the back, because someone broke into the garage, what do you expect when you’ve left the place empty for about 3 years now 🙄.
 
cammas said:
I think I may have mentioned this before but the house next door is vacant and they don’t mow the lawn until they get a notice from the council.

Then they get someone in who does a shit job, leaves piles of the cut grass everywhere and some of the garden beds have grass/weeds up to a metre high, council has been there and even asked for access to our place to take photos of the backyard.

When the council was discussing it with Mrs Cammas, they said the people don’t give a shit and don’t do anything until threatened with fines, if you don’t want to live there either sell it or rent it out.

Then the owners came to us asking if we had cameras in the back, because someone broke into the garage, what do you expect when you’ve left the place empty for about 3 years now 🙄.
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Reminds me. Next door sold a couple weeks ago, but has been empty maybe 2 months.

Last weekend heard a guy talking on phone standing out front, "nah, don't think it's been broken into yet"

Hoping it was friend of new owner?
 
Mr Crudley said:
I gather there won't be a 'Pink Poodles Lawn Mowing' service in Newcastle's future any time soon :cool:
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Lawn care? Maybe, I'm always good to sub that shit out and I have a guy that does a great job. He used to come round and wrestle my jungle once or twice a year.

Grass cutting on the other hand? I am definitely your man.



When I first purchased thst house the yard was a concrete slab with a border of dead dry sandy dirt. The drive way was just dirt with a lost in the dirt set of concrete lines for tyres. I was actually pretty good in the garden amd set about with a few dwarf citrus trees, herbs (shit like lemon grass, oregano, rosemary that take over a bit), passiontfruit, and a few different ornamental things. Then I swiftly stopped giving a fuck because women...and bikes...and snow...and a lot of fishing at the time as well. Ahhhhhhh the life. At one point the concrete slab was about 30cm deep of grass runners and above the waist when I was hanging things on the clothes line! The dogs loved it.
 
Stredda said:
but I also don't like my place looking like it's some crack house either.😛
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Now funnily enough I lived in what was Newcastle's premier crack house suburb (Islington) and was one of the early gentrifiers of the 'hood. As my neighbouring homes became gentrified and the area nicer to be in, my place seemed to have a natural repellent to break ins. It was quite effective.

After a few years of just letting it all go I went for a revaluation of the property and spent a Saturday cleaning the everything with some help from one of my mates that gets a huge boner over helping people ans yard work. Off the back of that I turned the back yard into a rather pretty garden.
 
I had neighbours at my rental who went missing for 3 years during covid, and all their hedges grew tall enough that they ended up leaning onto my roof. It rotted parts of the timber fence out at the same time, so I repaired the fence out of my pocket and chopped their hedges down at stump level. The front yard was a neighbourhood collaboration; everyone had a go at mowing it and taking care of the plants.

Even when the dirty pricks were living there, I had to keep on getting onto them to look after their yard.

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bigdamo said:
Lucky you live in Tassie as we only have to cut the lawns two periods of the year Oct-early Dec and Apr- to mid May. Lawns die off in summer don't grow over winter.

Stredda if you lived in Sydney or North your cutting your lawns all the time . Summer it's worse in Sydney. I swear I've cut the lawn in the afternoon. Storm comes in intense rain for 20 minutes. Get up in the morning and it's grown an inch.

Some people in Tassie would think my lawn image below needs a good cut. I swear some of my neighboors are just annal about cutting there lawnView attachment 418623
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Yeah it's good that they don't really grow in winter and die in summer. You should see my neighbour's lawn. It would make a lot of golfing greens look bad.
 
droenn said:
Id rather overgrown lawns than fake grass which is an increasing trend here
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There is place not far from here that has gone for the fake grass. The weeds have evolved and are coming through any gap between the the sheets and up all of the edges. Oddly they aren't even pulling the rogue weeds out.
 
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