Ja, I told some of my Aussie colleagues about it at work, and they found it quite funny too.
I had a similar exposure to a 'misconception' when I was working in Dorset in 1990. I was machining pieces of aluminium at a factory, and in the first few days many of my fellow workers were asking me questions about SA. There was one question in particular that I liked:
"Didn't you feel unsafe walking to school? What about the wild animals?"
Of course I couldn't let that go without building on it. So I recounted the terrible sadness we had experienced when yet another dog had been snatched by an eagle from out of our backyard on a Sunday afternoon while we were having a barbecue.