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Old 31st August 2019, 21:35
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I like the little putty cat in the first photo Rick, but it should have been on one of the Rhodesian Railways Stations. Somewhere like Dett. I was trapped in a phone box there with a young lion trying to get in. It did not know that the door opened outward. A quick call to the local police station, and two cops arrived, through a few firework bangers, and the lion ran off. Dett station is in the middle of a game park (the biggest in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) . There were a number of times when wildlife entered the town. Normally antelope or other small animals looking for water. Not too many of the bigger cats, buy quite a few Elephants. They liked to steal from the veg gardens. We just made a big noise with bagging on tins with sticks which they did not like and promptly departed. I spent a year as a fireman stationed in Dett.
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