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IRISH EMIGRANTS in Australia, we don’t know how you do it. Heck, we don’t know how anyone in Australia does it.
At any moment, you could walk out of your house and see this, draped across the side:
smh.com.au / TwitterNow that's a lizard https://t.co/lmd3YC7f3y pic.twitter.com/Vd6honA2UE
— The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) December 3, 2015
GAHHH. But wait, take a look at the claws, which are reportedly one and a half inches long.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the reptile is a type of lizard known as a goanna, which can grow over two metres in length.
Eighty-year-old Eric Holland says he first saw it scurrying across his back garden, but then it disappeared.
He got a huge shock when he later saw it crawling all over his house, telling The Border Mail:
I sometimes get blue tongues and lizards in the backyard but never anything quite like this. I couldn’t have been more shocked if a martian had landed. It blew the cobwebs out of me.
Well, we won’t be sleeping tonight, anyway.
Written by Valerie Loftus and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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I’d fookin’ shit myself if I saw this on the side of the gaf!
Imagine seeing that thing crawling past your bedroom window!
Where’s your homework? My lizard ate it, sir!
A koala is sitting up a gumtree smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past, looks up and says: “Hey Koala! What are you doing?” The koala says: “Smoking a joint.” “Come up and have some.” So the little lizard climbs up, sits next to the koala and they enjoy a large doobie. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is dry and he is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river. A crocodile sees this, swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side then asks the little lizard: “What’s the matter with you?” The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting in the tree, smoking a joint with the koala, got too stoned, and then fell into the river while taking a drink. The crocodile says he has to see this. So they walk into the rain forest and find the tree where the koala is sitting, with yet another joint. He looks up and says, “Hey you!” The koala looks down at him and says… “F………….. -k, Dude……. How much water did you drink?
WTF?
Haha I wasn’t expecting that! Actually I didn’t know what to expect but feck me that funny…
That’s not a lizard, it’s a bloody crocodile!
Goanna? I would have called them chazzwazzers
If i saw that outside my house,I’d close the door quietly,ring the bell,let the wife answer the door,one way of frightening the knickers off her
Who else read his comments in an “Alf Stewart” type voice??
Lizard? …..that the mother in law. …she’s over there on holiday
Do you no harm at all , there won’t be any spiders where that bad boy is. I would love one , we have lizards for years and they are amazing . My friend had 2 massive Iguanas for almost ten years and they had free run of his house.
Jaysus knowing my luck I’d catch his tail in the patio door and he’d go for me….
Goannouta that
Cool Lizard having a layabout chilling out :)
Maybe if I stay really still, then he won’t notice me…
Ah holy Jaysus Ide run straight to the airport
No big deal,it’s just Spiderman wearing camouflage.
*cough *cough **tumbleweed
Its a reptile dog…
You can live on it but it tastes like sh#t!
What’s the 5 feet about? This isn’t America. Like Australia we use the metric system in Ireland. A 150cm lizard was hanging around outside this guy’s house
You’d be surprised. In Ireland we officially USSR the metric system, but in day to day we use feet and inches for height, stone and pounds for weight, kilometers per hour and whatever your oven reads for cooking! The one thing we can’t stand is Fahrenheit. And don’t get me started on those for pounds of torque!
USSR!? WTF?
Were you rushin’ when you posted that?
Dean under the metric system it would 1500 mm or 1.5 m, you don’t use cm
Saw one of these about a meter long up in Queensland. Scared the s**t out of me! That said I’ve lived in Melbourne for 5 years and never seen a big spider or snake.
Same, i lived for ten years in Melbourne never saw a snake a few blue tongue lizards tho but they’re small. Saw plenty of huntsman spiders though. Queensland, being sub-tropical, i expected more snakes, lizards and bugs but saw very few in my few years there
I reckon the picture is an other of those old internet hoaxes doing the rounds
No, I believe it. Living in Darwin, Nth Australia in 1974 same size lizard crawled across our garden every morning at 11 am. Putting clothes on the line you could hear the lizard behind you. A friendly character but you still kinda froze when you heard it.
I went to work up intje pilbata and had no idea these things were about. Came out of my room one day and was like oh fukk dinosaur…back it up!!!. No thank you sir
What a beauty!
Ah JubJub. There you are
Bertie just won’t go away and disappear.
Looks photoshopped onto the wall
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