# Man Wards off Emus with Pool Noodles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236 "2022-06-15T12:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/21 "2022-06-16T18:03:53Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Emus have bigger and better wings for Buffalo wings than chickens do. It’s all dark meat on an emu. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/22 "2022-07-27T10:01:57Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > So how do you pronounce “puma”? _ **RUN!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/23 "2022-07-27T10:29:36Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > > > So how do you pronounce “puma”? > > _ **RUN!!** _ - Always hike with a slower friend. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/24 "2022-07-27T10:45:37Z")
Pew Mah ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/25 "2022-07-27T16:49:43Z")
Mother’s been at the beans again? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/26 "2022-07-27T17:02:11Z")
“Man Wards off Emus with Pool Noodles” So, how did the emus get hold of the pool noodles? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/27 "2022-07-27T17:20:48Z")
Same way the panda got the gun or bow (depends on the picture). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/28 "2022-07-27T20:12:20Z")
That’s the panda that eats shoots and leaves? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/29 "2022-07-27T20:50:41Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Americans (at least all the ones I’ve known) pronounce it the latter way. In my experience, both pronunciations are used (and reflected in American dictionaries, with the “ee-myoo” first.) I’ve generally heard “ee-myoo”, though, as an American. All three American pronunciation samples on [forvo.com](http://forvo.com) are “ee-myoo”, for example: > **[How to pronounce emu in English - Definition of emu in English](https://forvo.com/word/emu/#en)** > > How to pronounce emu in English. The definition of emu is: any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and... ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/30 "2022-07-27T21:23:04Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > That’s the panda that eats shoots and leaves? No, the one I’m talking about eats, shoots & leaves. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236/31 "2022-07-28T15:11:23Z")
This week in emu news: > [@](#): > > # Hotel Chef, Adamant Emu Stop Driver Fleeing Wreck > > After crashing into a storefront, a runaway alleged drunk driver was pursued by the chef and relentlessly pecked by the fleet-footed bird. > > … > > Hotel chef Dean Wade figured his foot chase of a driver who crashed a pickup truck into Malmesbury, England, storefront was over when they reached the fence of a wildlife sanctuary. > > “Don’t go in there, look at that emu, it will do you in,” Wade warned the runaway driver, [according to The Times.](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crash-drivers-getaway-brought-to-shuddering-halt-by-6ft-emu-xm8b76fng) > The man, who Wade said appeared drunk, confidently bragged, “I can fight emus,” and scaled the fence containing the 6-foot bird and its offspring. > > “The driver is throwing kung fu kicks and punches and the emu is moving its neck out of the way and jabbing him in the ribs and the head,” Wade recounted. “It must have hurt.” > > “It was stabbing his body all over,” [Wade told The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/27/uk-emu-fleeing-driver-chef-hotel/). > > Wiltshire police later charged the man, whom they didn’t name, with drunk driving and other crash-related offenses, [according to the Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/27/uk-emu-fleeing-driver-chef-hotel/). They said he sustained minor injuries. Don’t bring inadequate kung-fu moves to an emu fight. Any fool knows you have to bring pool noodles > **[Hotel Chef, Adamant Emu Stop Driver Fleeing Wreck](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wiltshire-emu-stops-drunk-driver_n_62e26665e4b07f83766c78ae)** > > After crashing into a storefront, a runaway alleged drunk driver was pursued by the chef and relentlessly pecked by the fleet-footed bird. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-wards-off-emus-with-pool-noodles/966236.md?page=1)