FML : Today, I spent a while in a tree after fleeing a rampaging Blue Tongue lizard, only to be chased back out of it by an angry possum. Australian wildlife....

Today, I spent a while in a tree after fleeing a rampaging Blue Tongue lizard, only to be chased back out of it by an angry possum. Australian wildlife. FML

I agree, your life sucks

You deserved it

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Hey guys, just a lil bit of clarification. I was holding onto the tree to get a good look at the blue tongue (which was over half a metre long). We're not normally afraid of her, she's come into our house (which I'll put a picture of in my profile). It's just that that day I was too near her hidey hole so she chased me. I was in the tree havin a little stare-down with her when I must have moved a little too high up because this possum comes out of no where right up into my face. Scared the shit out of me so I fuckin legged it inside. I'm also 16 so I don't have a heap of options about where I live lol

By fifi125 / Saturday 24 December 2016 04:01 / Australia

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By Vanderdale | 13

#7381689 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:50

Blue tongue lizards really aren't that scary? Seriously unless you're waving your hand in front of their mouth they can't harm you. Clearly you weren't meant for Australian living.

By The_Sexomancer | 11

#7381735 - Friday 30 December 2016 14:20

Hard to know what you're getting into if you were born there. Just saying I didn't exactly choose to live in this winter wonderland. But you end up loving despite its flaws.

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By elainebarish | 8

#7381672 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:06

YDI for willingly living in Australia you madman.

By spoon69x | 3

#7381678 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:20

I don't think that Lizard was chasing you to hard if it wouldn't go up a tree to get you.....

sparkledoge | 29

#7381694 - Friday 30 December 2016 12:06

These lizards have very big bodies and small limbs and they can't climb a tree

cheshireau | 26

#7381726 - Friday 30 December 2016 14:04

No they aren't. You must be thinking of a Goanna.

egnur_mas | 19

#7382476 - Sunday 1 January 2017 13:37

I think 9 was talking proportionally their bodies are large compared to their legs. Goannas in fact can climb trees quite well with their claws as well.

By Wizardo | 33

#7381683 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:33

Between a Red Rock and a hard place.

By rockydify | 22

#7381684 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:35

Neither of those are scary. YDI.

tapdancecolumbia | 13

#7381688 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:49

Agreed. Blue tongue lizards are a type of skink, not dog-sized monitors, and ringtail/brushtail possums are not so huge you couldn't push it off you, in the unlikely event it did try to attack.

Planking_potato | 24

#7381774 - Friday 30 December 2016 17:40

#7 the blue tongue lizards op is talking about can get pretty big and when they latch on they won't let go

awesomeamandas | 34

#7381860 - Friday 30 December 2016 22:09

anyone with a brain would run from an animal that could potentially be rabid or of the animal is plainly angry and wants to attack you.
I don't know about you, but I'd like to avoid taking a trip to the hospital for shots or stitches.

VermilionShell | 1

#7381886 - Friday 30 December 2016 23:36

There is absolutely no chance an Australian animal has rabies since rabies doesn't exist in Australia. Furthermore, blue tongues are docile harmless creatures; I have seen many had had them living in my garden and never had an issue. If OP was chased by a blue tongue, then he/she was probably harassing it and fully deserved the reaction. Possums, on the other hand, I wouldn't mess with. They have very sharp claws.

By lexiieeex3 | 32

#7381687 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:49

Unless you're being forced to live in Australia I'm not sure why this is an FML... You did know what you were getting into. Just be grateful it's not one of those spiders that are the size of your face that chased you up a tree.

The_Sexomancer | 11

#7381735 - Friday 30 December 2016 14:20

Hard to know what you're getting into if you were born there. Just saying I didn't exactly choose to live in this winter wonderland. But you end up loving despite its flaws.

apossessedbagel | 14

#7382186 - Saturday 31 December 2016 18:13

Plot twist: one of those spiders was waiting for him in the tree.

By Vanderdale | 13

#7381689 - Friday 30 December 2016 11:50

Blue tongue lizards really aren't that scary? Seriously unless you're waving your hand in front of their mouth they can't harm you. Clearly you weren't meant for Australian living.