Oh yeah. Plenty of people are still fostering them and making sure wild populations can be repopulated.Originally Posted by Spikey M
Not the poor old farmer though heaven forbid they take responsisbilitly for managing their land. The victim farmer is truly uniquely Australian.
I preferred the linked story to the off duty cop stoning one to death.
Cool as they are I can imagine wombats do a hell of a lot of damage both generally through digging and if you run them over, with that armour plated arse of theirs. Farmers are moany bastards the world over, but then I guess they'd say they probably fulfill a more important role in society than whingeing urban lefties. It's the same with the badgers over here. Oh the badgers!
I am definitely an inner city lefty whinging bastard but Ive also seen far too many videos of farmers killing native animals for laughs not for land management.
Last edited by Queenslander; 02-03-2020 at 09:39 AM.
Don't they mostly just do "roo-shootin'" with those massive torches and/or dog fighting with those massive hunting dogs?
They do everything these days. I have seen wallabies, roos, wombats and birds all be destroyed in one sided slaughter for uploads.
Greyhound x pitbill seems to be the favorite dog of choice.
It was only recently I realised kangaroos are basically enormous rats, and it really changed my view of the world.
As long as we eat them. We waste far too much meat in this country in the name of land management.
Camel meat is another that is wasted.
Last edited by Queenslander; 02-03-2020 at 11:09 AM.
Yeah but no need to get the hump about it.
I expect you have the same problem we do (exacerbated by most of the country being a giant wasteland) in that animal populations aren't really managed, you just wait until it's a problem and then try and control them. Normally by getting a load of bumpkins together with rifles and shooting as many as you can find.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/51709473
Weren't we talking very recently about how American sport is just an excuse to sell you more stuff?
Zinger has been bitter about our side of the pond ever since Seve Ballesteros trolled him to death in the Ryder Cup 30 years ago.
As someone who watches every week, the article is bang on about the American coverage. Fedex dump fifty million dollars on the table and in return expect the broadcast to be a 5 hour rolling tape of a Fedex van driving past. They also seem to be obsessed with projecting a certain image which real sport is not able to provide.
The low point was when a couple of weeks ago, Harold Varner was leading and topped his tee shot on one of the holes, like a rank weekend hacker would do. They refused to show the shot on the basis that they think it's bad for the brand/sponsors to show golfers in a bad light. Then there was Patrick Reed blatantly cheating (again) back in December and they completely glossed it over and described him as 'the perfect gentleman'.
Proper Bernie-style bollocks. Luckily the European side of the game (and Sky) have brilliant coverage and there are a few outlets in America which cover it properly as well, but the official TV feed is a disgrace.
Igor made me aware to this huge bust made by #OurBoysInBlue.
#NotOnOurPatch
Yeah you're not wrong.
I dont understand why we dont sell.more camels to the arabs. They always say we have the most genetically pure and the largest roaming camel herds.
Australia has camels? I never knew this. Are they making money from tourists riding them?
Another species that weren't native but some settlers or another went "Yeah sure why not lol."
Apparently, it's ok to shoot kids, as long as they are on the other side of the border.
A 15yr shot in the face (and died) and a 16 year old shot 10 times in the back (and died). However, no prosecution because, although tthe weapons were fired from US soil, the kids were on the Mexican side.
Freedom, fuck yeah!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...hooting-mexico
Serves 'im right. Staying over there, in his own country, not stealing American jobs.
What @Ian said. Apparently there is still over 1 million feral camels.
Last edited by Queenslander; 03-03-2020 at 09:50 AM.
And 24.6 million feral people.
Pretty much
Aaall other coun-tries have inferior roa-ming ca-mels.
While this is fucked up can the government really prosecute a crime that was ....... technically.... committed on not American soil?
Wouldn't Mexico need to request extradition or some shit? Which they also would never grant, but...
damn wtf?
This is basically the same as murdering someone at sea, right? At which point the law of the perpetrators home country is put in place. You can't have people loopholing their way our of murder.
I think you could reasonably argue that it was on American soil. The guy discharged his weapon whilst in the US, and that discharge killed a kid. You could argue that the location of the child was irrelevant. But yeah, it's an interesting case and raises some interesting questions about jurisdiction.
There must be preceded for things like War Crimes .. soldiers are often charged with those despite them taking place on foreign soil.
So appaently this shooting happened in 2012 and was criminally prosecuted in 2018. The dipshit who killed the guy was acquitted on one charge, deadlocked on another, and apparently another is to be prosecuted later.
This all seems so fucked.Both sides agreed on the basic facts: at about 11pm on 10 October 2012, two men climbed the border fence, followed by two other men hauling bundles.
Cameras detected them and police and Border Patrol agents responded to the scene. Some retrieved abandoned bundles with 22lb of marijuana, worth nearly $18,000. Others, including Swartz, confronted two men straddling the 18ft fence. Three people on the Mexican side started throwing rocks at the agents.
Some initial accounts said Rodríguez was not involved and merely walking home after playing basketball. He liked cloudy days, cookies and spending time with his sisters, his mother, Araceli Rodríguez, told the Guardian in 2015. “Even though he’s not here he’s still my son in spirit, in soul, in thoughts, in words.”
The prosecutors who sought to jail his killer accepted the teenager did throw rocks. But doing so did not pose a grave danger nor justify murder, said Wallace Kleindienst, an assistant US attorney. He argued that Swartz was “fed up” with people throwing rocks and opened fire not to “eliminate a threat” but “to eliminate a human being”.
It took the agent 34 seconds to empty his gun clip, move 45 feet, reload and fire three more bullets.
In emotional testimony, Swartz said he was frightened and fired after rocks appeared to hit a fellow agent and a police dog. “This has gotta stop. Somebody’s going to get hurt,” he recalled thinking. He said he aimed at what appeared to be two “shadowy figures” throwing rocks. After the shooting, he said, things went “gray” and he vomited.
Sean Chapman, a defence lawyer, said rocks could kill and agents had a right to defend themselves. “Yes, a gun is more powerful than a rock, but agents are authorised to respond in certain situations. That’s the mindset, that’s the way they’re trained.”
Sure, don't smuggle drugs across the border, but also did you really need to kill them once they already got away?! Talkin about some rocks hit your dog ffs.
2 second google search and we already do.
Last edited by Queenslander; 04-03-2020 at 12:27 AM.
Not only dismissed, but ordered to pay costsIt’s beautiful.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2020/...njuries-claim/
200 animal Wombat cull in South Australia has been cancelled.
The emus have guaranteed wombat independence.
I mean, they had to. Wombat's their primary food source.
Still some nut case developer in victoria knocking down gum trees with koalas still in them though.
Dickhead. Those are endangered now.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/investigat...011631609.html
Sorry timber plantation.
This seems like the biggest non-story ever. Celebrities accepts offers of money to promote charities.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...g-fake-charity
Ironic when it's public support through taxpayers that keeps half of the charities going.
Kinda goes against the whole not for profit thing. That's what makes it a story.
Surely they're just paying people for exposure, same as if they bought ad space somewhere.
I did check for April 1st with this one I must admit.
https://www.newstalk.com/news/lidl-s...ireland-980471
Apparently a guy who ran for Governor of Florida was involved in some kinda crystal meth orgy last night that resulted in a near overdose
Something to lighten the mood: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51878964
I know an audience isn't going to react any other way but ...Conor remembers the clang of a metal sword falling to the floor beside him, and a fellow actor cradling him and asking, "Are you OK?"
The 800-strong audience remained still, assuming this was part of the play.
Then the silence was broken by the hurried footsteps of the company's artistic director walking on stage. He apologised to the audience and said the show must end. There was a round of applause, and the curtain fell.
George Pell walks free. Hopefully someone bombs his local church.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/george-p...e-conviction??
I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise.
Hopefully Covid gets him.
Send him back to Italy.
The balls on this cunt.
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...pell-acquittedPope Francis decries ‘unjust sentences’ after cardinal George Pell acquitted
Here we go...
"Melbourne cathedral vandalised as George Pell leaves city after first night of freedom"
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/melbourn...ght-of-freedom
From what I remember of that first time round he probably was a nonce, but they clearly couldn't prove it properly, so they should just both agree on the year inside and call it quits.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52274242
Unlucky lads.
There was one last week here where a sports club were running a Zoom session for kids one morning and they all logged on to some yoke in America trying to shove a melon up her box.
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