K'gari tourists given sticks after dingo attack
www.watoday.com.au
Tourists on K'gari have been given plastic poles to help them fend off dingo attacks.
    • Piecemakers
      71·
      3 years ago

      I mean, they lost to emus last time and they brought gatling guns to that fight. Now, they’re handing out plastic pipes against dingos? How is that “learning from past mistakes”? 🤦🏼‍♂️

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        4·
        3 years ago

        How is that “learning from past mistakes”?

        They learnt that unloading a machine gun at long range at a bunch of birds that at run at 45k was a useless idea.

        So the swap to a melee weapon load out (however crap it is) could be seen as learning from past mistakes.

          • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
            3·
            3 years ago

            If you can’t hit a dingo on the nose hard enough to make it fuck off with a short length of PVC, you would likely end up hurting yourself trying to wield anything sharp and pointy.

              • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
                1·
                3 years ago

                Although isn’t it less to hurt them and more to deter them? You want them to leave you alone, not potentially injured badly to end up suffering or dead in the wild.

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        3 years ago

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        • Piecemakers
          2·
          3 years ago

          Wait. I genuinely thought that was just a metaphor for the historical massacre and subjugation of the indigenous people. Rabbits beat the Aussies, too?

          • MuThymedeleted by creator
            2·
            3 years ago

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            • Piecemakers
              2·
              3 years ago

              IIRC, that was the premise for the TMNT setting in a post-apoc down under for the RPG back in the 90s. 🤣🤘🏼

        • TheSpookiestUser
          1·
          3 years ago

          Aw you’re fine, I just wanted to let whoever ran the account know. There was an instance of a bot dev deliberately not marking their account as a bot to try and make it seem natural, didn’t want you to get caught up in that - the development of an automod for lemmy will be a big step forward in moderation.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    7·
    3 years ago

    While a park ranger might well be employed by the federal government… calling a park ranger “the Australian government” is a bit much.

  • Crow
    4·
    3 years ago

    It’s called a dingo-bye-bye-bat.

  • betterdeadthanreddit
    11·
    3 years ago

    You could put a rock or something in there and use compressed fluid to propel the projectile at the dangerous animal. Maybe look into inexpensive gas canisters or chemicals that expand rapidly when struck and prepare individual containers with the rocks so you can swap them out quickly after use. Add on some small protrusions at the ends to help with getting the pipe lined up with the thing you want to hit too.

    I think this idea could really catch on, will have to see whether there’s anything like that on the market already.