July 29, 2025 • 10 mins
After an amazing email yesterday about being chased by dingo over a ham sandwich we're looking for more of your stories about being chased by an animal.
Nothing we ever cover on the show gets completely left behind, if you have a chased by an animal story email us: christian@christianoconnell.com.au
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. It's Australia.
There must be millions of stories waiting to be heard.
There's no country that has more dangerous animals than Australia,
whether they're waiting for us in the sea or on
(00:40):
land or above us. Even the magpies here are vicious bastards,
you know, so chased by an animal. The reason I'm
doing this I've got a great email yesterday for one
of you. Christian. A friend of mine cycled around Australia
and during one of his stretches he was chased by
a dingo that wanted his ham sandwich. We were talking earlier,
(01:00):
you know, the dingo might I thought was a club sandwich. Go,
my god, you don't see one of those outside of
a hotel menu one in the world. I'm having that.
Make sure you take the toothpicket so we want your
stories of animal if you've been changed by an animals
thirteen fifty five twenty two. In between all the fun lockdowns,
when there was like a brief respite. Me and the
(01:22):
family went over to Hobart and we hardly can't Hobart
beautiful place. It's been a couple of times now. And
we drove for an hour outside of Hobart to go
to a wildlife sanctuary. It looked beautiful when we were there.
One of the handlers, you know, my wife said, oh,
I saw on the poats on the way and you've
got one bats. The kids really want to see one bats.
We're English, we've never seen a one bat. He goes,
(01:42):
we do have a wombat. It's a sleep at the moment,
and it's a teenager. So I could go and sort
of wake it up, but it's it gets really grumpy,
and of course my wife doesn't take no for an answer.
I was like, I don't worry about that, and the
kids were like like pushing my mum and she went,
go wake it up, right, this woe bat. Literally it's
like a teenager. The keeper says, now, listen, you know
(02:05):
they are friendly animals. They don't go for you, but
just please sit down and don't make any big moves
or anything that. So we all sat down. The one
mat is grumpy ass looking one, but it's released for
no I'll share the photo in a minute. For no
known reason, it starts to chase me.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You were it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I was just sat down.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I didn't want to wake.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Up this teenage one, but which it marks me. I
didn't know why he slept in the weakness. It's just strange.
I'm trying to move away without reacting with my hack.
The kid goes, keep your hands in your pockets, so
I'm keeping him, but also just go get off now,
and then all of a sudden, I need it pursue me.
It bites my ass, and I mean a real like
out keeper grabs it goes. Oh my god, I've never
(02:49):
oh my, I've never seen that before.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
When you say you're going to show us there with your.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
No no, we've had those before. One of my one
of my most popular and shared post one. They went
viral for crazy twenty four hours. This is so rare.
This place has now in in receptionally going a picture
of me being bitten by this. They're very proud. They
are very very proud. You should be proud. Oh my god,
(03:17):
I'm so proud. The guy was obviously he was worried, like, hey,
can you just go and just check yourself out to
see if you kiss having a cham or anything. I said,
I don't think it pissed skin. I had my jeans
on it. It's no big good so anyway, because it
was right around the back of my back, so my
wife had to follow me into the toilets there while
I pulled my pants down. That's our story and we're
sticking to it. Bon the Wrong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobarts, Alex,
(03:41):
you grew up on a farm, you must have had
countless animals chasing.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I was chased by animals every day. Christian.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
We had this ram called Bruce, and Bruce was a
certified nutter. If sheep had asylums, he would have spent
the rest of his life in a straight jacket.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
This ramom, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So is he a horny ram? No?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Well no, he was in this house paddic and like
whenever he got out, like your life was in danger.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Seriously, so would he butt you and like ram you
with the hoo would back up, back up like they do,
and just absolute go for you and smash you and on.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And he used to hate the motorbike. So what I
used to do is I used to tease Breace a bit.
So I'd get on the Bruce and this old ct
won too fire this old motorbike, and every time he
would back up, I'd sort of start to speed off.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I go and just take off and he gets songs game.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And then one day, one day he took his moment.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
He took his moment. Starts backing up.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I'm on the motorbike, wady through, start taking off the
motorbike conks out.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Oh wow, gotcha the motorbike. I fly across the patty
Bruce is one. He's standing there and I'm like, oh
my god, what I do. He hated the motorbike and
he just starts going at the motorbike. He's just smashing
it to me. Yeah, the fuel.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Tank, he was like just into it and I'm like, Bruce,
stop stop, And I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
He got tired.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Eventually he just walked off, but he was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Your fuel lead yeah, horns. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Another time he knocked my grandfather into a water trough.
Like the stories I could tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's of course he would be called Bruce. It's Australia.
Christian O'Connell shot podcast. Christian has a great wildlife part
just near warnable called warnable wildlife encounters where you can
actually hold a one. Bat dies, never happening again, form
me whites wombats, never doing it again. All right, we're
looking for your stories of being chased by animals. Christian
(05:40):
As kids, we had a family picnic gate crashed by
a rampant emu. Rampant em The emu took a big
beak shaped bite out of my vegemite sandwich. Who doesn't
love vegamites? Mom tried to shoo it away while shrieking
at it, which resulted in EMU chasing us away so
(06:02):
to go back to his vegemite sandwich. We never get
to it in Australia.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
How to get rid of an emails in America?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Out near the big parks. Now you talk to you
make your sound big for a bear on what it is?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What to do here with the news?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And they're very fast.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, years and years ago, my grandma lived down there.
It was in Gippsland and my best friend I were
playing cricket on the street and I was about to
come into bowl. My best friend, he was batting, was
standing still like he'd seen a ghosts. He then pointed
for me to look behind. I saw it, Christian, a huge,
big red kangaroo about ten meters from me. I didn't
know what to do. The kangaroo decided to charge us. Luckily,
(06:39):
we're close to Nana's house. Nana, my grandma and her
new boyfriend. Oh yeah, it's a door locked, Nana, and
the curtains are closed. At two in the afternoon, Nana,
the house is rattling in a kangaroo. My kangaroo and
her new boyfriend, sorry, my grandma had a new boyfriend,
(07:02):
came running to scare out the kangaroo. There was to
put some pants on then then then start to pickup
st it's the triveway to throw the kangaroo. Kangaro was
unfazed Christian and then grabbed her car keys and start
up ninety eight camaro. Yes, the kangaro was like, oh,
(07:23):
I'm out of here. You ain't no match for that.
It's not a camaro.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Wait whoa reverse from us? Oh wow, Christian. I walk
home from work most afternoons along a creek and there
was a fa there's a family of ducks that live there.
More than one occasion of about to sprint because the
Daddy Duck has decided on far too. They are vicious
a little things, aren't they can they move surprisingly quickly
(07:47):
with a little waddle. Yes? Do you think? Were you
bad to get a load of animals together? Put them
in a race? So Emu versus protective duck versus one bat.
I would love to see it to race for cash?
We do we scambals. Yeah, Australia a century. We can
give it ten yes, yes, called Ko sports at nine.
(08:09):
We're stream it live. I watch it all right, let's
go to down here. Good morning, Dale, morning, how are you?
I'm good, Dale, Welcome to a show. So an animal
chase you? What happened?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Actually it was my grandma and we were at a
nature park and we were king. We were in the
animal quota and my grandmother decided to get us some
biscuits and my grandmother, not being tall, the taste.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Her a little missus doubt fine, they went for a
shame on you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, you went to her and his use tastes running
around mister tin above her head with tasting it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh no, Nana on the loose, Nana on the run,
Nana on the run. This is another game we could
play for cash. How long yeh know, how long before
the em you gets the biscuits from Nana's head.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well he just ended up tacking the in and the
inmans went to the pink.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's what you do now we know what to do
for in cases the biscuits on your head. All right, Dale,
thank you very much your story. Thanks you calling the show.
Have a good day. Same to you, Wayne, Thank you
very much. Same to you. Sounds a bit lame, didn't it.
Same to you what you just said. You wouldn't put
that in a card. Send you having birthday? Same to you. Wayne,
(09:35):
is on the line.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now come on in Wayne, I'm on in Christen in time.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Same to you, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Whilst northling in Nisberg in South Australia, I was just
driving down looking at the fish and there was this
beautiful little pufferfish there, so I thought I'd just go
down a bit closer. The next minute it just turned
and came straight at my mask. So I thought for
some reason I was scared, so I trained to the
(10:01):
surface and it was it's not out of jaws.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Not sho I want six inch puffer fish?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I absolutely panny which inch fish? I shouted, swimming as
fast as I could, and I thought I'd swim about
ten meters, so I'll start, and I turned and then
again through all the bubbles, all I saw was puffa
fish with his teeth going up and down, coming through
the bubbles.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Come on, what's it going to nibble? You take like
a year to nibble a weight your foot and I'd
like giant balloons.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Like how fast was it swilling?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, So all my friends for the rest of the
weekend called me puffa.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
God of course. Do you know what, Wayne, you give
me an idea for tomorrow show? How did you get
your nickname Puffer? This is how the best nicknames are
born out those stories, aren't they? Wing Wayne, great story, Puffa.
Thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more gold one I four
point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free
iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. It's Australia.
There must be millions of stories waiting to be heard.
There's no country that has more dangerous animals than Australia,
whether they're waiting for us in the sea or on
(00:40):
land or above us. Even the magpies here are vicious bastards,
you know, so chased by an animal. The reason I'm
doing this I've got a great email yesterday for one
of you. Christian. A friend of mine cycled around Australia
and during one of his stretches he was chased by
a dingo that wanted his ham sandwich. We were talking earlier,
(01:00):
you know, the dingo might I thought was a club sandwich. Go,
my god, you don't see one of those outside of
a hotel menu one in the world. I'm having that.
Make sure you take the toothpicket so we want your
stories of animal if you've been changed by an animals
thirteen fifty five twenty two. In between all the fun lockdowns,
when there was like a brief respite. Me and the
(01:22):
family went over to Hobart and we hardly can't Hobart
beautiful place. It's been a couple of times now. And
we drove for an hour outside of Hobart to go
to a wildlife sanctuary. It looked beautiful when we were there.
One of the handlers, you know, my wife said, oh,
I saw on the poats on the way and you've
got one bats. The kids really want to see one bats.
We're English, we've never seen a one bat. He goes,
(01:42):
we do have a wombat. It's a sleep at the moment,
and it's a teenager. So I could go and sort
of wake it up, but it's it gets really grumpy,
and of course my wife doesn't take no for an answer.
I was like, I don't worry about that, and the
kids were like like pushing my mum and she went,
go wake it up, right, this woe bat. Literally it's
like a teenager. The keeper says, now, listen, you know
(02:05):
they are friendly animals. They don't go for you, but
just please sit down and don't make any big moves
or anything that. So we all sat down. The one
mat is grumpy ass looking one, but it's released for
no I'll share the photo in a minute. For no
known reason, it starts to chase me.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You were it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I was just sat down.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I didn't want to wake.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Up this teenage one, but which it marks me. I
didn't know why he slept in the weakness. It's just strange.
I'm trying to move away without reacting with my hack.
The kid goes, keep your hands in your pockets, so
I'm keeping him, but also just go get off now,
and then all of a sudden, I need it pursue me.
It bites my ass, and I mean a real like
out keeper grabs it goes. Oh my god, I've never
(02:49):
oh my, I've never seen that before.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
When you say you're going to show us there with your.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
No no, we've had those before. One of my one
of my most popular and shared post one. They went
viral for crazy twenty four hours. This is so rare.
This place has now in in receptionally going a picture
of me being bitten by this. They're very proud. They
are very very proud. You should be proud. Oh my god,
(03:17):
I'm so proud. The guy was obviously he was worried, like, hey,
can you just go and just check yourself out to
see if you kiss having a cham or anything. I said,
I don't think it pissed skin. I had my jeans
on it. It's no big good so anyway, because it
was right around the back of my back, so my
wife had to follow me into the toilets there while
I pulled my pants down. That's our story and we're
sticking to it. Bon the Wrong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobarts, Alex,
(03:41):
you grew up on a farm, you must have had
countless animals chasing.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I was chased by animals every day. Christian.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
We had this ram called Bruce, and Bruce was a
certified nutter. If sheep had asylums, he would have spent
the rest of his life in a straight jacket.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
This ramom, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So is he a horny ram? No?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Well no, he was in this house paddic and like
whenever he got out, like your life was in danger.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Seriously, so would he butt you and like ram you
with the hoo would back up, back up like they do,
and just absolute go for you and smash you and on.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And he used to hate the motorbike. So what I
used to do is I used to tease Breace a bit.
So I'd get on the Bruce and this old ct
won too fire this old motorbike, and every time he
would back up, I'd sort of start to speed off.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I go and just take off and he gets songs game.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And then one day, one day he took his moment.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
He took his moment. Starts backing up.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I'm on the motorbike, wady through, start taking off the
motorbike conks out.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Oh wow, gotcha the motorbike. I fly across the patty
Bruce is one. He's standing there and I'm like, oh
my god, what I do. He hated the motorbike and
he just starts going at the motorbike. He's just smashing
it to me. Yeah, the fuel.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Tank, he was like just into it and I'm like, Bruce,
stop stop, And I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
He got tired.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Eventually he just walked off, but he was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Your fuel lead yeah, horns. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Another time he knocked my grandfather into a water trough.
Like the stories I could tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's of course he would be called Bruce. It's Australia.
Christian O'Connell shot podcast. Christian has a great wildlife part
just near warnable called warnable wildlife encounters where you can
actually hold a one. Bat dies, never happening again, form
me whites wombats, never doing it again. All right, we're
looking for your stories of being chased by animals. Christian
(05:40):
As kids, we had a family picnic gate crashed by
a rampant emu. Rampant em The emu took a big
beak shaped bite out of my vegemite sandwich. Who doesn't
love vegamites? Mom tried to shoo it away while shrieking
at it, which resulted in EMU chasing us away so
(06:02):
to go back to his vegemite sandwich. We never get
to it in Australia.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
How to get rid of an emails in America?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Out near the big parks. Now you talk to you
make your sound big for a bear on what it is?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What to do here with the news?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And they're very fast.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, years and years ago, my grandma lived down there.
It was in Gippsland and my best friend I were
playing cricket on the street and I was about to
come into bowl. My best friend, he was batting, was
standing still like he'd seen a ghosts. He then pointed
for me to look behind. I saw it, Christian, a huge,
big red kangaroo about ten meters from me. I didn't
know what to do. The kangaroo decided to charge us. Luckily,
(06:39):
we're close to Nana's house. Nana, my grandma and her
new boyfriend. Oh yeah, it's a door locked, Nana, and
the curtains are closed. At two in the afternoon, Nana,
the house is rattling in a kangaroo. My kangaroo and
her new boyfriend, sorry, my grandma had a new boyfriend,
(07:02):
came running to scare out the kangaroo. There was to
put some pants on then then then start to pickup
st it's the triveway to throw the kangaroo. Kangaro was
unfazed Christian and then grabbed her car keys and start
up ninety eight camaro. Yes, the kangaro was like, oh,
(07:23):
I'm out of here. You ain't no match for that.
It's not a camaro.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Wait whoa reverse from us? Oh wow, Christian. I walk
home from work most afternoons along a creek and there
was a fa there's a family of ducks that live there.
More than one occasion of about to sprint because the
Daddy Duck has decided on far too. They are vicious
a little things, aren't they can they move surprisingly quickly
(07:47):
with a little waddle. Yes? Do you think? Were you
bad to get a load of animals together? Put them
in a race? So Emu versus protective duck versus one bat.
I would love to see it to race for cash?
We do we scambals. Yeah, Australia a century. We can
give it ten yes, yes, called Ko sports at nine.
(08:09):
We're stream it live. I watch it all right, let's
go to down here. Good morning, Dale, morning, how are you?
I'm good, Dale, Welcome to a show. So an animal
chase you? What happened?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Actually it was my grandma and we were at a
nature park and we were king. We were in the
animal quota and my grandmother decided to get us some
biscuits and my grandmother, not being tall, the taste.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Her a little missus doubt fine, they went for a
shame on you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, you went to her and his use tastes running
around mister tin above her head with tasting it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh no, Nana on the loose, Nana on the run,
Nana on the run. This is another game we could
play for cash. How long yeh know, how long before
the em you gets the biscuits from Nana's head.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well he just ended up tacking the in and the
inmans went to the pink.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's what you do now we know what to do
for in cases the biscuits on your head. All right, Dale,
thank you very much your story. Thanks you calling the show.
Have a good day. Same to you, Wayne, Thank you
very much. Same to you. Sounds a bit lame, didn't it.
Same to you what you just said. You wouldn't put
that in a card. Send you having birthday? Same to you. Wayne,
(09:35):
is on the line.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now come on in Wayne, I'm on in Christen in time.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Same to you, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Whilst northling in Nisberg in South Australia, I was just
driving down looking at the fish and there was this
beautiful little pufferfish there, so I thought I'd just go
down a bit closer. The next minute it just turned
and came straight at my mask. So I thought for
some reason I was scared, so I trained to the
(10:01):
surface and it was it's not out of jaws.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Not sho I want six inch puffer fish?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I absolutely panny which inch fish? I shouted, swimming as
fast as I could, and I thought I'd swim about
ten meters, so I'll start, and I turned and then
again through all the bubbles, all I saw was puffa
fish with his teeth going up and down, coming through
the bubbles.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Come on, what's it going to nibble? You take like
a year to nibble a weight your foot and I'd
like giant balloons.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Like how fast was it swilling?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, So all my friends for the rest of the
weekend called me puffa.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
God of course. Do you know what, Wayne, you give
me an idea for tomorrow show? How did you get
your nickname Puffer? This is how the best nicknames are
born out those stories, aren't they? Wing Wayne, great story, Puffa.
Thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
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