July 24, 2025 • 7 mins
Ever held a funeral for a wombat? Rod has after a run-in with some classic bush capital wildlife on the roads. He then broke the news to his daughter that the wombat didn’t make it & things were taken very seriously.
Plus, local Canberrans have been in similar situations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We started the show yesterday on a somber note because
I was obviously down and it.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Was I was somewhat traumatized.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By the distressing, you know, situation I had driving along
the Barton Highway and dipping my high beams because there
was an oncoming.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Truck and then I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know where a wombat was just standing. He
wasn't scurrying, he wasn't darting, he was just standing in
the middle of my lane. There wasn't time to swerve,
and they say, don't swerve, I.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Could end in even more disaster.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Well, it did not end well for all parties. And
so he went through my car like a hot knife
through butter.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Just awful situation. My heart broke for for him.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And you know, now the process of dealing with the insurer,
and you know this, I don't know. There's not parts
to this car just sitting around. I don't know how
long we're going to be off the road.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Here for it's a fancy electric car. And I was
thinking last night, I was like, I don't even know
if they will have anyone that is able to repair
it in.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Camera, It'll be a really interesting day today. I'll keep
you up to date as to how that goes. And
so obviously, when I pulled up at school in the
work car, there were some questions asked by my daughters,
and my youngest, Indiana, who is nine, was very concerned
about the wombat, of course, and I had to be honest.
(01:25):
I said, the wombat didn't make it. And she said,
do you think we could hold a memorial in the
backyard for the wombat?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And I said, she's so sweet, She's very.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Smart and she's very sweet. And I said to her,
should we fill a coffin with bricks the same weight
and density of the wombat.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Because we don't have the wombat you know, and.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
She can do a memorial without.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, we're doing this problem.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And she said, I think that's a good idea. And
then I said to her, we could have the eulogy
performed by Agro from Agro's cartoon connection and she said
a wombat.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, she said, who's Agro?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh, that's a good question too.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And I said he's a famous wombat. His original show
was called Wombat Really let it Go? And she said,
I still don't know who that is. And I said,
what are they teaching you at that school. I learned
that my eldest didn't know much about Superman until the
other day. She's twelve years old. Outrageous.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What is it the curriculum?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
What are we doing at this school? No Superman, no Agro.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And so we'll continue to work on the memorial service
for the wombat.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
That leaves us as a one car family for about
six months.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I suspect, oh six whoa, yeah, maybe maybe an electric car.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We'll find it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I'll tell I'll keep you up to that and I'll
let you know how the memorial comes together. However, it
did beg the question yesterday because there was no shortage
of people who had the relatable Of course, it's the
bush capital.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I've hit a thing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
However, I am worried that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
This is going to be a rite off.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, and maybe that is damage. Maybe it is because
of the rarity of the parts, or I don't know yet.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm going to find out.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
However, thirteen ten sixty am I am I worrying? Unnecessarily?
Can a wombat or a kangaroo, or god forbid whatever
other wildlife?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, I told you about.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The deer the other day, and then I noticed a
couple of a week or two after I spoke to
you about dodging the deer again, that was inside the
act border.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, he was, he was.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think he was running out of hall across the road.
I noticed that region camera started reporting on him because
people started getting dashcam footage.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I assume it's one. Maybe there's more. I don't know
about the deer.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But has anyone's car have actually been written off? You've
had to get an entire new car because of wildlife?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Because of wildlife, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
It hasn't happened to our family that I know of.
I don't think so. I know we hear the kangaroo
the Toarago on the way back from the Canberra show.
When I was young, we stayed for the fireworks, so
it's very dark, and I just remember being a very
young girl standing on the side of the road with
one of those alien puppets he used to get at
the Campus show, just standing there waiting for another car
(04:23):
to pick it's up.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, it keeps it fun, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But it didn't write the Toarrago off.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, and looks so I will be reassured if the
answer is no, But if it has happened.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Although it's kind of easier if it is, so, I
don't know if you should be reassured.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to pretend I wasn't looking
into the insurance last night. I'm like, you we ensured
for like you know what we bought it for or
market on we go?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Has it happened? Thirteen ten sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You were just investigating whether or not I should be
worried about the possibility of my car being a rite
off after we.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Came in contact with contact after a.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Poor wombat was in the wrong place at the wrong
time and literally cut through the undercarriage of the car.
At the bottom of the car is on the ground.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Do you reckon? Because he wasn't moving, he was harder
to see because if there's movement, you kind of catches
your eye a bit more.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I thought about that, and then oddly, on reflection, he
had his back half turned to me as well, so
you can't even see the glint in the eye.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He was doing everything wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
He just looked like a shadow on the road.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look, you just looked like he was there.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And then that was that, Madam Greenway, you ever had
a car written off with a after a brush with
bush capital wildlife made.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Not britten off, but fairly damaged.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
How damaged because I'm surprised that the airbags didn't go off.
The impact felt so significant in the car, and the
damage was so unbelievable, the.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Impact shot and the impact here brick warm when you know,
I was on my pea plates and then writing it
done on speeding and yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, so last night or yesterday morning, so one hundred
ks an hour I hit this thing. And it's like,
you know, hitting a couple of bowling balls, and a
hundred ks an hour if you're going even faster, would
have scared the living daylights.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Out of you.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, I was doing about one
hundred and forty. You know, you shouldn't go at us,
but you know, young and stupid, like I.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Said, and you're lucky for a lesson to learn.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You're lucky you didn't come off even worse.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I it nearly rolled with you, that's for sure. Really
scared me. I had to pull over and take a
breather and realize what happened. And yeah, slow the hell down.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Now hold on a second. What type of you are
we talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A toy highlucks?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, That's why I didn't write it off.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, because it's a tough tougher.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
A lesser you wouldn't have wouldn't have stood up at
one hundred and forty ks an hour, the one bat
would have won.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't think any one bat's win.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
No, when is it this situation that is true?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
All right, Matte, Well you sound older and wise now mate,
you stay safe out there.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
While you're there, you going to the footy on Sunday?
You follow the Raiders or the Knights.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No may, I'm going down the coast to watch this
Semessa oh.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Saway in Cambridge is a couple of weeks back.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
They were, they were, but I missed out.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm going down to Maria the fair going all right,
we'll travel safe for it anyway, Matt, I'll give your
tickets to someone else.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Thanks mate, No worries, Thank you, good man.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Cheerio
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We started the show yesterday on a somber note because
I was obviously down and it.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Was I was somewhat traumatized.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By the distressing, you know, situation I had driving along
the Barton Highway and dipping my high beams because there
was an oncoming.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Truck and then I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know where a wombat was just standing. He
wasn't scurrying, he wasn't darting, he was just standing in
the middle of my lane. There wasn't time to swerve,
and they say, don't swerve, I.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Could end in even more disaster.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Well, it did not end well for all parties. And
so he went through my car like a hot knife
through butter.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Just awful situation. My heart broke for for him.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And you know, now the process of dealing with the insurer,
and you know this, I don't know. There's not parts
to this car just sitting around. I don't know how
long we're going to be off the road.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Here for it's a fancy electric car. And I was
thinking last night, I was like, I don't even know
if they will have anyone that is able to repair
it in.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Camera, It'll be a really interesting day today. I'll keep
you up to date as to how that goes. And
so obviously, when I pulled up at school in the
work car, there were some questions asked by my daughters,
and my youngest, Indiana, who is nine, was very concerned
about the wombat, of course, and I had to be honest.
(01:25):
I said, the wombat didn't make it. And she said,
do you think we could hold a memorial in the
backyard for the wombat?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And I said, she's so sweet, She's very.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Smart and she's very sweet. And I said to her,
should we fill a coffin with bricks the same weight
and density of the wombat.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Because we don't have the wombat you know, and.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
She can do a memorial without.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, we're doing this problem.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And she said, I think that's a good idea. And
then I said to her, we could have the eulogy
performed by Agro from Agro's cartoon connection and she said
a wombat.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, she said, who's Agro?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh, that's a good question too.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And I said he's a famous wombat. His original show
was called Wombat Really let it Go? And she said,
I still don't know who that is. And I said,
what are they teaching you at that school. I learned
that my eldest didn't know much about Superman until the
other day. She's twelve years old. Outrageous.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What is it the curriculum?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
What are we doing at this school? No Superman, no Agro.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And so we'll continue to work on the memorial service
for the wombat.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
That leaves us as a one car family for about
six months.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I suspect, oh six whoa, yeah, maybe maybe an electric car.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We'll find it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I'll tell I'll keep you up to that and I'll
let you know how the memorial comes together. However, it
did beg the question yesterday because there was no shortage
of people who had the relatable Of course, it's the
bush capital.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I've hit a thing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
However, I am worried that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
This is going to be a rite off.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, and maybe that is damage. Maybe it is because
of the rarity of the parts, or I don't know yet.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm going to find out.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
However, thirteen ten sixty am I am I worrying? Unnecessarily?
Can a wombat or a kangaroo, or god forbid whatever
other wildlife?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, I told you about.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The deer the other day, and then I noticed a
couple of a week or two after I spoke to
you about dodging the deer again, that was inside the
act border.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, he was, he was.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think he was running out of hall across the road.
I noticed that region camera started reporting on him because
people started getting dashcam footage.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I assume it's one. Maybe there's more. I don't know
about the deer.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But has anyone's car have actually been written off? You've
had to get an entire new car because of wildlife?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Because of wildlife, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
It hasn't happened to our family that I know of.
I don't think so. I know we hear the kangaroo
the Toarago on the way back from the Canberra show.
When I was young, we stayed for the fireworks, so
it's very dark, and I just remember being a very
young girl standing on the side of the road with
one of those alien puppets he used to get at
the Campus show, just standing there waiting for another car
(04:23):
to pick it's up.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, it keeps it fun, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But it didn't write the Toarrago off.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, and looks so I will be reassured if the
answer is no, But if it has happened.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Although it's kind of easier if it is, so, I
don't know if you should be reassured.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to pretend I wasn't looking
into the insurance last night. I'm like, you we ensured
for like you know what we bought it for or
market on we go?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Has it happened? Thirteen ten sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You were just investigating whether or not I should be
worried about the possibility of my car being a rite
off after we.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Came in contact with contact after a.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Poor wombat was in the wrong place at the wrong
time and literally cut through the undercarriage of the car.
At the bottom of the car is on the ground.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Do you reckon? Because he wasn't moving, he was harder
to see because if there's movement, you kind of catches
your eye a bit more.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I thought about that, and then oddly, on reflection, he
had his back half turned to me as well, so
you can't even see the glint in the eye.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He was doing everything wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
He just looked like a shadow on the road.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look, you just looked like he was there.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And then that was that, Madam Greenway, you ever had
a car written off with a after a brush with
bush capital wildlife made.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Not britten off, but fairly damaged.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
How damaged because I'm surprised that the airbags didn't go off.
The impact felt so significant in the car, and the
damage was so unbelievable, the.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Impact shot and the impact here brick warm when you know,
I was on my pea plates and then writing it
done on speeding and yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, so last night or yesterday morning, so one hundred
ks an hour I hit this thing. And it's like,
you know, hitting a couple of bowling balls, and a
hundred ks an hour if you're going even faster, would
have scared the living daylights.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Out of you.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, I was doing about one
hundred and forty. You know, you shouldn't go at us,
but you know, young and stupid, like I.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Said, and you're lucky for a lesson to learn.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You're lucky you didn't come off even worse.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I it nearly rolled with you, that's for sure. Really
scared me. I had to pull over and take a
breather and realize what happened. And yeah, slow the hell down.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Now hold on a second. What type of you are
we talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A toy highlucks?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, That's why I didn't write it off.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, because it's a tough tougher.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
A lesser you wouldn't have wouldn't have stood up at
one hundred and forty ks an hour, the one bat
would have won.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't think any one bat's win.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
No, when is it this situation that is true?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
All right, Matte, Well you sound older and wise now mate,
you stay safe out there.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
While you're there, you going to the footy on Sunday?
You follow the Raiders or the Knights.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No may, I'm going down the coast to watch this
Semessa oh.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Saway in Cambridge is a couple of weeks back.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
They were, they were, but I missed out.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm going down to Maria the fair going all right,
we'll travel safe for it anyway, Matt, I'll give your
tickets to someone else.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Thanks mate, No worries, Thank you, good man.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Cheerio
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