The Drop Bear
Some say it isn’t real. This is a lie. Look, any Australian who jokingly warns you of a drop bear wants you to think it’s dry humor. Let me tell you: there are tree creatures in Australia that will drop on your head and hurt you.
What is a drop bear, you ask? I just told you. It’s similar to a koala except vicious. They just wait in trees all day for a victim and then attack. Here‘s a Wikipedia article, but it’s all wrong. Watch out for Drop Bears, OK?
drop bears are real. i want to know if there are in england because when i went to pgl in surrey they said that there was drop bears in a forest and we walked through it . we had to hold sticks on our heads and put our hoods up so they didnt fall on us or hurt us.it was strange and i want to know if they are real. also some of my friends have done research on drop bears and found out that they were in the forest but they were not supposed to be there. can someone plz reply, i need to find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is not a drop bear
they are real.
thay can at drop bear forest at pgl merchants hill
Drop Bears anit real they’re just fat koala that drop on there pray
Drop bears are native to Australia. They are a marsupial closely related to both the Koala and Tasmanian Devil. The Koala evolved into a tree dweller and became a vegetarian eating only the leaves of specific varieties of trees. They regularly travel across land to get from one clump of trees to another and can travel some distance. The Tasmanian Devil evolved into a ground dwelling carnivor / carrion eater well known for its viscioness and bad temperment. It has one of the highest jawpressure bites of any beast. However the Drop Bear remained omniverous (eats meat and vegitable). Despite many caricatures of the animal it resembles a blend of the two other close branches of its genus, can range in color from light grey- brownish to jet black depending on what part of Australia they are from. They are typically lazy and lie in ambush along animal trails close to water however in drought conditions activally stalk their prey, preferring to attack from above, due to their smallish stature as opposed to their prey, they drop on you from the tree branches so as to deliver a killing bite to the neck before their prey can fight back. A pack of drop bears have been known to devour a horse in one night, its heavy bones are even cracked open by the jaws of the bear to access the marrow. During World War I nearly all Australian units took a mascot with them, many preferring native Australian animals to distinguish our nationality. When the units went into battle the animals were to be left in safe hands. Many of the English organisations who were to care for these animals were unprepared for the Australian natives and could not care for them properly resulting in the deaths of most. Three Battalions took dropbears as a representation of their ferocity. Each battalion had 6 men as animal handlers, two men at a time were required to handle the Dropbears when they were out of their cages they were attached to two leash poles with a man either side to control them. All three killed their English handlers and escaped within a fortnight of being left behind. It is possible that some decendants of these animals are living in Englands heavy woodlands. In Australia the best known deterrent is to use Vegimite (similar to the English Marmite but made with Australian ingrdiants) rubbed into the back of your neck as the Dropbears detest the taste and smell. Many rural Australians like myself develop severe dermatitis from years of use and can no longer use the vegimite solution. The solution we use is to always travel in pairs armed with a short barrel shotgun, not to shoot the bears because all Australian Native animals are protected and besides they are small and quick and almost impossible to shoot, but to shoot the victim befor he is torn to pieces by the bears. Many of the homicides in Australia are actually due to these mercy killings but are intentionally misreported so as to protect the tourism and immigration industries.
Thank you for this insightful comment. We really appreciate people with first-hand experience around here and your comments are always welcome. I’ve heard of there being a rogue pack of drop bears in England but sources are very sparse. Do you have anymore information?
wow ken your a fuck wit nobody trys to scare off tourists with this old shit any more what age are you living in, ppl dont listen to him, KOALA bear thats all this is, only thing you have to worry about with these guys is there claws and they will only scratch you if you try and grab them and if you would like to know they pretty much only eat gum leaves in australia
I am from australia and although i hav never heard or seenn these ‘drop bears’ i wont go as far to say they dont exsist. Yes koalas have sharp claws which are more than capable of killing a human if provoked i dont thinl they would have the energy. There diet is so poor in nuetrition that they sleep 19 hours a day and spent 4 of those 5 hours awake grazing on highly toxic food. I hav never heard of drop bears and thibnnk thyey would be more declarated if they are as vicoius as some sited say thet are. I dont think they are reaql as they soubd like a folk story or something you tell your friend when theres no comversation topic and lie about something complte;y random. Even still i’ll keep my eyes open.
I am from australia and although i hav never heard or seenn these ‘drop bears’ i wont go as far to say they dont exsist. Yes koalas have sharp claws which are more than capable of killing a human if provoked i dont thinl they would have the energy. There diet is so poor in nuetrition that they sleep 19 hours a day and spent 4 of those 5 hours awake grazing on highly toxic food. I hav never heard of drop bears and think they would be more declarated if they are as vicoius as some sites say they are. I dont think they are real as they sound like a folk story or something you tell your friend when theres no comversation topic and lie about something compltely random to get some attention. Even still i’ll keep my eyes open.
soz 4 repeating my message.i fixed up some spelling errors.
i went pgl is well and they told me there were drop bears but in devils punchbowl and there can be in pgl because one girl that i know called demi got bitten by 1 and no her fingers are balckk soo trust mee they are real,i will give u 1 more reason because when i went pgl this boy called jacob told us 2 come out in the night so we could play ambush butt where we played ambush was in the woods and jacop told uss dat we hadd 2 wear hat with a stick which was really wierd butt we had 2 do that because there were dropp bears i wass really scared when he told us. btw plgg is wicked i loved every min of it
i went on pgl the 16th march 2009.
we had to put sticks on our head because chris the instructor told us they land on our head a rip hair out. the wood was called drop bear forest my mates and i got totaly scared, we all leged it to the end.chris had said the sticks will protect us as they fall on the head of us and the stick will go up the bum.
Im told that the colour of the hair they eat they turn that colour.so please let me know if they are real or not.xx
yes pgl isle of wight said about them it freaked me out
i went to pgl. i done everything there,but at the drop-bear territory i had to hold up a strong stick above my head.i was totally scared!
my teacher got attacked by a baby drop-bear! but the instructor,DJ,booted it away so the teacher lived to tell the tale. Be careful peeps, drop-bears DO exsist i promise
i have just come back from pgl and we went through the forest and got lied to and had to look like an idiot putting a dirty stick on my head. i say never go telling everybody that dropbears live because it’s just a pgl fib and it’s just people messing with photo’s of fat koala’s. but it was funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont think they are real. I went to pgl and went through the forest, If they did exist dont u think that you wouldnt be aloud to walk through the forest?
heyur i kno 4 a fact dat they r real!!!! just cum bak from pgl marchants hill, & on da hike wiv john & duffy we went through drop bear woods & WE SAW A DROP BEAR. would av taken a foto, but they told us not 2 coz it aggrav8s em. y wont u peeps believ in the drop bears wen so many ppl av actually seen them???
did u peeps believ in the fing about the alice ghost? i fink it was real. ppl sed the replies wer just echos, but my group asked her: “Alice is ur mum still diggin?” & she replied yeah so its not an echo ppl!
luv ma peeps!!! xoxox
they are just lazy koalas falling out of the trees and is a coinsidence if they fall on you.
I Went To Pgl On The 15-19th March And It Was Sooo Funny With Sticks Nd That But
Are They Really In England
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[Staffs Over Used Phrase] AWESOME
[Staffs Over Used Action] HIGH FIVE
Alex And Ben Are Best At Marchants Hill
omg i went to pgl marchants hill in surrey too. they made us put sticks on our heads. o and all u ppl sayin that u saw 1 there. u didnt. they make someone dress up as a bear, and run past everyone whilst theyre crouching down with sticks on their heads and if they were real they woUldnt be allowed to risk letting us walk through the forest. but it was absolutely hillarious. we put dirty sticks on our heads and our hoods up and shouted look at me im a tellytubby. LOL
OKAY I COPIED AND PASTED THIS FROM WIKIPEDIA
A drop bear (or dropbear) is a non-existent[1] Australian marsupial. Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.[2] They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or snipe.
It is often suggested that doing ridiculous things like having forks in the hair or Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears will deter the creatures.[3]
[edit] Drop bears in popular culture
Drop bears appear in the novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett. In that novel, the wizard Rincewind travels through the Australia-like continent of Fourecks, and is attacked by some (that is most) of the creatures while traveling through the desert. Rincewind is wearing the traditional pointed wizard’s hat, which serves to protect Rincewind’s head from the stunning blow of the bear, and stun the bear itself. When the first bear’s attack is unsuccessful, a massive cadre of dropbears begins to fall from the trees out of sheer astonishment. When hearing about this later, the locals insist that drop bears don’t really exist.
Escape Velocity Nova, an Australian-designed 2002 computer game from Ambrosia Software, contains attacks from alleged drop bears in Auroran Empire space. These drop bears are actually young Auroran warriors in disguise. The game also features Drop Bear attacks and repellents. It is unknown whether storage or use of the repellent provokes Drop Bear attacks or just acts as a placebo, but it is assumed by many players.
A Bundaberg Rum ad series featured stories about the drop bears being used by Australian male campers to get some female backpackers to move their tents close to the boys so they could chat them up. The attractive female backpackers are incredulous until the Bundy Rum Bear (a large talking polar bear often featured in the company’s advertising) drops out of a tree near the edge of the lake, squashing one of the girl’s tents.
In Warren Ellis’s comic Nextwave, weaponized drop bears are deployed from an air-based military platform.[4]
The D20 Modern RPG sourcebook D20 Menace Manual features Drop Bears as a Monster Type.
Australian cartoonist Ian Dalkin had a popular cartoon strip ‘Derek the Drop-Bear’ which ran in the Sydney Sun an afternoon newspaper in Sydney that was folded by Fairfax in the early 90s.
i do not intend any copyright, im just trying to prove my point.
Ok PGL is filled with lies, drop bears DONT exist. If the instructors there said that the speed bike chase scene in the movie Star Wars was filmed there, they also lied. It was infact filmed in Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park in the US.
the people at pgl told us they where fake!
The are very, VERY real.
i went to marchants hill /pgl and i saw a drop bear
and emily i saw one and thay said thay r real and someone i new got biton by one now u know that they r REAL!
i went to pgl whitemead forest of dean and they said drop bears were real .we had to put sticks on are head
they are really fake the leader showed us picture on phone it was edited kowala bear
they are real i went to pgl last week and i saw one they scared me all of my friends and me were crying coz one of the boys saw one out side our dorm it was scary if you go to pgl be carfull there is a possibility of you dieing
i will never look at a koala the same way eva again
There is no such thing as drop bears all they are is koalas and it was made up to scare away tourists so i wouldent lisen to these guys they must be all poms
g’day guys im from outback Aus and worken on a farm im 19 years old this drop bears being fake aload of shit iv lose a few of the family cattle and a Wallabies or 2 you dont mess with them mates
g’day mates drop bears are real you do need to take precautions when walking through the aussie bush. and no they are not in england that one is just a rumore they are native to the aussie bushland
Well, OK, we Aussie’s do enjoyed a good leg pull and Koala’s aren’t really carnivourus.
besides, the Wombat is far more dangerous and can have your foot off before you realize its even there, worse, their teeth point backward so once they have a grip they are latched on or if you do get them off they take a sizeable chunk of flesh with them. That’s when it gets really hairy as the pack gets the scent of blood and moves in as a group.
HOWEVER, they do have really really weak bladders so if you are going koala spotting in a place where there is a colony, I strongly suggest an umbrella or raincoat.
That’s not a summer shower trickling down from the tree branches…..
How dare you doubt the veracity of Drop Bears? Australians never tell lies! http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Drop_Bear
I went to PGL in hardelot and they said that they were imported because they were dying out and my headteacher said he got attacked by one and he does have a bald patch!!!
i do not know what to believe!!!
i went to pgl marchants hill surry and on the 16th i went through drop bear woods with my class and with three instructures called liam,doie and lilo and we all had sticks on our heads and three of my friends and me saw one. why would they make you cry for nothing so they might be real.
alice and the witch storie is fake and not real.
and the tree that was grown by the twins is fake
they are not real stop being stupid