Sunday, April 7, 2013

Beware the Insipid Wombat.




It's bite is toxic. And boring. But mainly insipid.

It is best stay away if you can.
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3 comments:

chickelit said...

Do wombats have tales?

April 8, 2013 at 1:34 PM
Trooper York said...

Yes sad ones.

And they make a lot of stuff up.

April 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM
MamaM said...

Here's a true tale. A while back, I was friendly with a woman who'd emigrated from Germany as an adult, and she shared bits and pieces of her story with me. When she was a child, her father, an alcoholic, would "discipline" her by beating her legs and body with some kind of metal shoe last/stretcher until her skin would break. When this went on, her mom would stand by and do nothing. Her parents would also put her to bed at night and lock the door to the apartment bedroom where she and her younger twin siblings slept (locking them in) and go out to drink and party. She recalled one night when she woke, found the door locked, and opened the window three stories up to stand on the wide ledge and wait for them to come home. This act of fear and perceived defiance was not well received.

Control became a big issue for her, as did the current of anger that ran under a sweet, yum-yum, isn't life wonderful cover of loveliness and pretense. When the rage she was expressing at her kids scared her, she sought counsel, but soon after decided it was easier to pour intensity into religious causes than admit to and work through her pain.

She was a fun loving and interesting person to be with on one level, but difficult to engage with in open, honest relationship. Skilled in manipulation, she could twist truth and switch from victim to accuser in a heartbeat, without conscious awareness of having done so. Sadly, the glimmers of true self that would shine through the denial and deflection were not enough to support healthy, mutual relationship and our time together came to an end.

With regard to wombats, it's difficult to know whether the prevailing behavior is conscious or unconsciously driven. I suspect both. Either way they're aggressive when cornered.

Humans who accidentally find themselves in an affray with a wombat may find it best to scale a tree until the animal calms and leaves. Humans can receive puncture wounds from wombat claws as well as bites. Startled wombats can also charge humans and bowl them over, with the attendant risks of broken bones from the fall. One naturalist, Harry Frauca, once received a bite 2 cm (0.8 in) deep into the flesh of his leg—through a rubber boot, trousers and thick woollen socks...a 59-year-old man from rural Victoria state was mauled by a wombat...causing a number of cuts and bite marks requiring hospital treatment. He resorted to killing it with an axe.

April 8, 2013 at 7:43 PM

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