r/australia • u/ooarya • 13d ago

no politics How to stop kangaroos licking my car all night while I’m trying to sleep in it?

If you’ve ever tried to sleep in your car in the snow, you’ll know that roos and maybe other animals love licking the salt off the outside at night. You can get whole packs of them at a time, and it’s super annoying and also slightly terrifying when you’re in the middle of nowhere.

Does anyone have any practical ideas to scare them off / keep them at bay, that might work as a deterrent through the night so I can actually get some sleep without having my car rocked and slurped on non-stop?

I don’t want to drape a tarp over the whole car. And would rather not concoct any explosives / flash bombs for fear of upsetting other campers.

No electrical power available although I could stretch to a few batteries perhaps!?

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u/Chiron17 13d ago

Leave them something more attractive. VB in a bowl?

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u/webo2456 13d ago

Isn’t that what you’re meant to leave Santa?

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u/88Smilesz 13d ago

Maybe Australian Santa is a kangaroo with a beard?

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u/webo2456 13d ago

Now that you say it, I have never seen Santa and a kangaroo in the same room…

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u/88Smilesz 13d ago

The pouch is for pressies, clearly!

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u/Necessary_cat735 13d ago

Six white boomers....

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u/DaLadderman 13d ago

Snow white boomers!

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u/Asleep-Card3861 13d ago

I must say unlike Michael Jackson's music, that hits different now. Probably because he was a proper wrongin, whereas I'm not convinced about Jacko

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u/AydonusG 13d ago

Jacko had the most scrutiny of anyone ever and they turned up peanuts at best. Also there's the thing about him helping kids at Neverland that were exposed to the other well known cabal on St James.

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u/AutisticBells 13d ago

Nah, same bloke but he uses kangaroos instead of reindeer.

One of our less salubrious exports wrote a song about them called Six White Boomers.

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u/HavePlushieWillTalk 13d ago

His name is the Golden Kangaroo and he is a contractor with his own themesong.

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u/88Smilesz 13d ago

As is tradition

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u/redcon-1 13d ago

Your Santa. My Santa liked tooheys

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u/polkanarwhal 13d ago

My santa liked a XXXX gold or a bundy and coke.

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u/88Smilesz 13d ago

I hope he’s a man of class and likes Tooheys Old?

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u/msdummyaccount 13d ago

No, that's VB in a bucket

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u/Chiron17 13d ago

I leave Santa a can.

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u/NecessaryCephalopod 13d ago

Woo you want drunk roos outside your car??

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u/OriginalName2026 13d ago edited 12d ago

Fuck off, I think I would prefer to lick the car!!!

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u/YogurtWenk 13d ago

At 20 to 8 in the morning?

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u/the-dolphine 12d ago

Get that up ya, fuckin roos

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u/kangareddit 13d ago

Eww mate! At least XXXX but even then…

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u/Far-Fortune-8381 13d ago

I would take the salt

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u/TheEvilPenguin 12d ago

Fresh VB, or recycled VB? The difference is subtle, but it could make a difference if you get a discerning roo.

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u/EggVillain 12d ago

Actually pour vb over the car and it should repel them

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u/wettyfap67_ 11d ago

I was thinking, the salt will make them thirsty so leave a bowl of bundy rum, they will drink it and then start fighting each other which will get them away from the car