For Lauren's benefit :
When I was little (about age 12) I got introduced to our great Aussie culture of Drop Bears. A group of us an a school trip went to visit one of the Whitsunday Islands, which as you would expect was full of tourists - predominantly Americans with huge cameras and telephoto lenses.
The other guys involved me in the prank. What you do is you wander about the island, running from clearing to clearing - always looking up and making very sure that you don't walk under any trees. You act extremely nervous and frightened and talk all in a rush.
When a tourist asks you what the matter is you tell them you are simply worried about Drop Bears and how one of them badly mangled your mum last week. She should have known better about it being Drop Bear season but that she had been careless.
You will no doubt get asked "what are drop bears", and the standard answer is that they are a smaller and much more nasty version of the koala bear (even more helpful to have Koala bears in the vicinity). You then helpfully explain the way the little blighters hide in trees and drop down on unsuspecting people who walk under the tree. For some reason, they seem to get really angry with cameras. In two weeks time, when mating season is over they will return to being wonderful placid timid creatures, but this is not the fortnight to piss them off.
It is great to watch the tourists then adopt all your safety precautions and start staring up at tree tops and staying out of the shade and nervously running between clearings.
At the age of 12, it is propbably the most fun one can have considering that legally there is very little other fun you are meant to have
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