From: Adam Flinton 

John Beckett wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news::
>
>>Oz has better weather (and poisonous snakes, poisonous spiders and venomous
>>sea creatures).
>
>
> There was a BBC TV series about British immigrants to Australia a couple
> of years ago. I don't know if the BBC set it up, but there was one
> hilarious episode where a diffident and newly-arrived family inspected a
> unit (apartment) which someone had suggested they rent.
>
> They found red-back spiders crawling everywhere! (Red backs are not large,
> but they look positively evil and can deliver very painful or even fatal
> stings.) From the look of the program, that family hoped they could find
> their way back to the airport ASAP.
>

There's the advantage of "transportation"........come back &
we hang you 

Makes spiders etc seem less bad....

Adam

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