I have a couple...

New to AUSTRALIA, like around 4 days. ( 1973 )  My Grandfather called out 'one morning' that we should hurry up and see these kangaroos that were out in the back lane way.  ( for POD mainly, we lived then in Shenton Park )

So there we were, two excited Pommy kids, new to Australia thinking we would see a 'roo  ( I was 10 and my sister was 5 ) so we rushed out...couldn't see it, Grandad says, 'It went that way'......we ran down 'that way' and it had obviously bounced away as we couldn't find it.

I am sure Grandad was having a good laugh, but we were obviously disappointed.  To make it up to us, he drove us somewhere to see a real kangaroo that day so all was good!  ( nice one Grandad! )

Fast forward to 1993 maybe 4......I was at the Submarine HQ, the radio was on, then all of a sudden on the news they stated that 'approximately 50 dolphins were beached at one of Perth's beaches and they were calling for volunteers to come and help them.  This struck a cord with me, I so wanted to help out but knew I wouldn't be allowed to go so I just kept my mouth shut and stressed about those 'poor dolphins'.  Every so often they would mention it, state 'that 'x' amount of people had turned up but they needed more'...

This went on for around 2 hours, every news bulletin we listened intently....

Eventually they coughed up to the April Fools Joke...they were talking about Dolphin Torches which they had placed at the shore line.

I wasn't impressed at the time but later saw the funny side.

There is another one but that would take too long to write out....even better.

Blue *_*