I found this website while doing a little surfing:
http://www.dropbear.trav.net
Obviously a joke, but is there anyone here who knows the background to this? There has to be a good story here!
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
Nasty buggers, that’s what they are. Bears with large padded arses that drop on your head. No worries, though - they are only found on the Last Continent.
Drop Bears? They’re a bloody myth, mate. I reckon you’re a couple of shrimps short of a barbie, eh? No worries.
“Waheeey! ‘Duck!’ Get it?”
“Errr… No…”
“Duck! Sounds almost exactly like fu-”
Well, I assumed it was joke of some kind when I saw the camping-out pics with Winnie the Pooh peeking around trees, etc. 
But now I’m curious as to just what a ‘Drop Bear’ is supposed to be and the story behind the story, if you know what I mean. Is this a euphemism for something else? Are they just making fun of people who are always sighting ‘unknown’ animals? Or is a ‘Drop Bear’ something like the North American Bigfoot, and the site is making fun of the spotters? There were also suggestions that they might be some sort of military secret.
C’mon, someone let me in on the joke! My curiousity is killing me!
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
Well according to an Aussie friend of mine Kuala (sp?) bears are known to drop out of trees on occasion, and the Aussies just couldn’t resist the fun of telling tourists and immigrants and city folk that they drop on unsuspecting prey, so you’d better watch out. Not likely for a mammal that eats leaves, but slightly more plausible than the Jackalope,
Larry
Oh, NOW I see. Those ferocious Koala bears are terrorizing the outback, huh? LOL!
Around here we just take the kids snipe hunting.
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
OBVIOUSLY A HOAX… WHAT CARD CARRYING AUSTRALIAN WOULD REFER TO A KOALA AS A BEAR? THIS DOWNUNDER PEDANT REGARDS USE OF THE WORDS ‘KOALA’ AND ‘BEAR’ WITHIN 20 LIGHT YEARS OF EACH OTHER LIKE FINGERNAILS DOWN A BLACKBOARD. THEY ONLY FALL IF THEY ARE OVER RIPE AND THERE IS A STRONG WIND. ONE YEAR A WHOLE BUSLOAD OF NIKON WEILDING JAPANESE TOURISTS WAS WIPED OUT. OF COURSE MULDER AND SCULLY IMMEDIATELY AND ERRONEOUSLY WENT OFF ON ONE OF THEIR CONSPIRACY FEEDING FRENZIES
What that annoying fellow above me is referring to is that Koalas are not bears. They may look kind of like the typical teddy bear you’d find on a kid’s bed, but they are actually marsupials, and not related to bears in any way.
And yes, I’m fairly certain the legend of Drop Bears is one of those deliberate myths originating from the occasional tumbling koala.
“Waheeey! ‘Duck!’ Get it?”
“Errr… No…”
“Duck! Sounds almost exactly like fu-”
Are they also known as “road apples”?
Peace,
mangeorge