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Since we are into being chased by cows today, I thought this was unfair and prejudicial on other creatures not to have their say and fair chance to gain fame and notoriety from chasing in RailUKforums. It could be anything from militant frogs and aggressive moth swarms to man-hating mambas or good 'ol favourites like lions and tigers (if you survived to tell the tale).
Extra points if you were engaged in some sort of rail-linked activity at the time.
My starter for 10: I was photographing in fields around Ephesus, western Turkey in 1986, and to get round and about, I'd hired a sort of motorbike-moped type thing for the day. Probably less than 50cc to be legal.
Stopped on a dirt-track, well, more like dust track, with the church at Ephesus 500 yards away on it's hill, I happened to turn round to see a bloody wolf-like hound bounding straight for me 30 yards away. I was lucky, no camera gear out, so I just opened the (very meagre) throttle and pushed the thing to its limits. I was sure the animal would soon be on me, as the moped thing was sliding and slithering in the dust, but I couldn't - daren't - look round.
After a minute of this, and still with no hound's teeth impaling themselves anywhere on my body, I stopped and looked back. I forget now if I could see the wolf-creature or not, but I was no longer in peril, apart from a heart beating like a Black 5 going up Shap.
I was rather careful going onto agricultural land in Turkey (and elsewhere) after that little escapade. (No rail-related activity in this instance.)
Being chased by cows
I have been chased by a single cow once. About 6 years ago I was walking through a field of cattle, and they were on the footpath, so I could not really avoid them. One of the cows was staring at me, so I waited for it to move away. After 5 minutes it stayed were it was, so I decided to take...
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Since we are into being chased by cows today, I thought this was unfair and prejudicial on other creatures not to have their say and fair chance to gain fame and notoriety from chasing in RailUKforums. It could be anything from militant frogs and aggressive moth swarms to man-hating mambas or good 'ol favourites like lions and tigers (if you survived to tell the tale).
Extra points if you were engaged in some sort of rail-linked activity at the time.
My starter for 10: I was photographing in fields around Ephesus, western Turkey in 1986, and to get round and about, I'd hired a sort of motorbike-moped type thing for the day. Probably less than 50cc to be legal.
Stopped on a dirt-track, well, more like dust track, with the church at Ephesus 500 yards away on it's hill, I happened to turn round to see a bloody wolf-like hound bounding straight for me 30 yards away. I was lucky, no camera gear out, so I just opened the (very meagre) throttle and pushed the thing to its limits. I was sure the animal would soon be on me, as the moped thing was sliding and slithering in the dust, but I couldn't - daren't - look round.
After a minute of this, and still with no hound's teeth impaling themselves anywhere on my body, I stopped and looked back. I forget now if I could see the wolf-creature or not, but I was no longer in peril, apart from a heart beating like a Black 5 going up Shap.
I was rather careful going onto agricultural land in Turkey (and elsewhere) after that little escapade. (No rail-related activity in this instance.)