DROP BEARS (Australia)
If you plan to visit the land down under (AKA, Australia) there is a little something the guidebooks leave out; something terrifying lurking in the gum trees. something big Australian Tourism doesn’t want you to know about. That’s right, it’s the fearsome, tourist-terrorizing drop bear. Unlike the made-for-TV Koala, (that’s not even a bear), Drop bears are vicious, meat-eating, marsupials with anger management problems. They hang out in trees waiting for a tourist to pass by so they can drop (get where the name comes from?) down and attack!
Allegedly there are measures a tourist can take to ward off the drop bear, such as placing a dollop of vegemite (just google it) behind each ear (or armpits, eww), or placing forks in one’s hair. But these are NOT TGA-approved and remain unproven.
Audrey Day-Williams, the poet who wrote the Poem, BEWARE THE DROP BEAR, lived in Australia for a year in her teens and while she never actually saw a drop bear, she’s fairly certain she heard them rustling in the gum trees plotting strategic drops. She once mistook Vegemite for Nutella and that’s by far the scariest thing that ever happened to her in Australia.
Have you had any encounters with this hidden creature?
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