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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. With

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Speaker 1: this time of the year, it's a breeding season for

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Speaker 1: birds fits and that means it's a magpie swooping season.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, get ready, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: It just instills so much fear into you, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean you might have your standard way

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Speaker 1: of walking to work through a park or buy some

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Speaker 1: gum trees, but at this time of the year, my god,

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Speaker 1: get down, Get down, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're on a bike and you've got

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Speaker 2: a helmet on your fine, but they do.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's oh, they'll attack, don't worry about that.

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Speaker 2: They can split the skull open.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen twenty for twenty if you've got a story. And

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Speaker 1: the other thing is too fits. If you're riding along

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Speaker 1: trying to concentrate in a busy area and you're getting

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Speaker 1: swooped at the same time, it's dangerous that you'll end

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Speaker 1: up crashing into something like an oncoming holden.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it is breeding. So that what the baby

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Speaker 2: magpies are out and they're just protecting. Is that what

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Speaker 2: they're doing.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Hotspots Malibar Cujie, Manly Gray stones Campbelltown.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know there was hotspots.

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Speaker 1: Mate there are because people report swooping incidents and there's

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Speaker 1: like a swear. I mean, here's one magpie attack on

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Speaker 1: cyclists twenty eight spitfire drive raybe the magpie continue swooped

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Speaker 1: three times with moderate contact.

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Speaker 2: Not bad because it's like that ways app. Isn't it

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Speaker 2: work for you driving? You know where you can put

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Speaker 2: in a pothole or if there's a speed camera, they

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Speaker 2: should have a magpie option.

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Speaker 1: They should accidentally posted this twice. Sorry from Ricky J.

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Speaker 1: That's okay, Ricky. We appreciate both posts. Here's the thing

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Speaker 1: they do advise if you are riding your bike fits

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Speaker 1: one of the most simple solutions is to go to buttings,

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Speaker 1: pick up some cable ties, and you have the cable

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Speaker 1: ties sticking up through the vents of the helmet. Now

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Speaker 1: that's very very practical.

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Speaker 3: If you are not on a bike and therefore not

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Speaker 3: wearing a helmet, remember a very easy solution is to

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Speaker 3: go and buy a four let of ice cream.

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Speaker 1: When you finish that, put some string. Once you've washed

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Speaker 1: it out, put some string underneath and wear it as

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Speaker 1: a helmet. Draw some eyes on the back.

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Speaker 2: I got done by the cops wearing an ice cream helmet.

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Speaker 2: You can't because it's not an actual helmet.

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Speaker 1: Mate, not talking about riding a bike, I'm doing about walking.

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Speaker 1: Did you actually get done with an ice cream bucket

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Speaker 1: on your head?

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Speaker 2: Do you remember the stack cats? Yeah? And they were

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Speaker 2: so large and you look like and the girls thought

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Speaker 2: you were such a do aus when you wore them,

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Speaker 2: and I refused to wear them, and Mum and Dad

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Speaker 2: used to scream at me, yeah, and go.

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Speaker 3: You have to wear your stock hat now.

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Speaker 2: And I would get one hundred meters down the road

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Speaker 2: and out of my school bag I would take out

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Speaker 2: an ice cream helmet because it looked better than the

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Speaker 2: stack hat, okay, And a police officer supported me over

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Speaker 2: once and said you can't wear that mante.

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Speaker 1: Come on, mate, don't get me wrong. We all love neapolitan,

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Speaker 1: but that's not going to save you. How did you

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Speaker 1: go with the girls with it? Scream bugget on?

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Speaker 2: No no good, no good. And it was a dodgy

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Speaker 2: cop as well. His name was Barry Moys. There was

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Speaker 2: a punk band that wrote a song about him, Barry Moys,

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Speaker 2: why do you try to break the laws? You're the

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Speaker 2: one who ruled the system. You will never be forgiven Barry, Barry,

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Speaker 2: Barry Moyes.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a recall.

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Speaker 1: He deserves an ice cream bugget on his head. Meilan

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Speaker 1: north Made, you've been a victim of a swoop have you?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness?

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Speaker 1: It was years ago. I was on my way home

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Speaker 1: from school.

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Speaker 2: I'm being attacked.

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Speaker 1: I'm waving my head above my head.

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Speaker 4: And I'm trying to come off the road and go

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Speaker 4: up onto a foot path. But I missed a little

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Speaker 4: without bit and I hit the gunner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I fell on to the bike and it was a

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Speaker 4: boy's bike, so I had that bar across.

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Speaker 2: God. No, that ended up getting stitchures.

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Speaker 1: In my Oh my god, all because of a swooping magpie.

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Speaker 2: Okay, swooping magpie North Made area. Should we put that

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Speaker 2: on the hotspot as well? Now, well it was.

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Speaker 4: It was actually on the Gold Coaster.

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Speaker 1: Oh stitchesmell they call her? Oh you poor thing. I

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Speaker 1: mean it happened to Ash, our news reader. I think

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Speaker 1: only on the weekend. Ash trains twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't slept in years because she's an athlete. What happened

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Speaker 1: to you, Ash?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Literally on my bike on Sunday morning, coming down a

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Speaker 4: hill and something whacked me in the back of the

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Speaker 4: head and did him know what it was at first?

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Speaker 4: And what happened? Literally, it was relentless. It hit me

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Speaker 4: maybe three times.

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Speaker 2: Definitely a magpie.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could feel its feathers in the back of

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Speaker 4: my neck. Yeah, really going hard. And when I got

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Speaker 4: to the bottom of the hill, my husband was waiting

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Speaker 4: for me and he had also been hit a few

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Speaker 4: times by the same magpie.

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