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- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -2/+28I'm an Australian taxpayer. Spending $3.5m on moving 400 kangaroos - out of 60 million - is ludicrous. I think the current plan of tranquilizers and lethal injection is the wrong approach, but I understand it's probably the only way to prevent protests. Really, there's no harm in putting a bullet through a kangaroo's head and turning the rest into steak and clothing. It's not cruel. In the rare instances of missed shots - and hunters lose money if they don't make clean kills - the job is finished in under a minute.
And could Paul McCartney please butt the ***** out? - jmpeagle, on 05/17/2008, -0/+24they're considered pests in Australia, the place occassionally gets overrun by them and so a mass culling is often necessary
- aussiejan, on 05/17/2008, -0/+23I know it sounds awful that they have these kangaroo culls but they are necessary. Kangaroos in Australia are like deer in Canada. If the numbers are not cut down, they eat everything in sight and other species suffer. It is especially difficult now when Australia has been in serious drought for many years and the roos are having trouble finding food. As it is we get tons of them in our backyard every evening to chew down what little grass we have left.
- Zeekstah, on 05/17/2008, -0/+19As an Australian, let me way in my opinion.
Kangaroo's breed extremelly quickly, and the government finds it hard to do regular culls because of the mass opposition it gets every time they have to be carried out.
At the end of the day, if a percentage of these kangaroo's arent removed (preferrably destroyed because kangaroos are currently in pest proportions, like a rat) They'd just destroy the environment, and starve themselves out, which will destroy the defence land in the process. - treelovinhippie, on 05/17/2008, -1/+19Here here!
If anyone on Digg actually knew how fast Kangaroos breed and how much of a menace they become when the population gets out of control, they would agree culling is fine. Kangaroo meat is actually tastier than any beef or pork products (you just need to cook it properly). - Mootabolife, on 05/17/2008, -0/+18We need a large order of boxing gloves shipped over immediately.
- Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -0/+13When the entire world thinks of you Americans we think of people stupidly butting in to the affairs of others with your perpetual ignorance.
- dinostabOMG, on 05/17/2008, -2/+14Aren't they edible? Why are they lethally injecting them? That would probably make them less edible, I imagine. Why not just increase the number of hunting licenses or something? Pay hunters for each kangaroo, or encourage them to sell to meat packing plants?
- farsonic, on 05/17/2008, -0/+12The difference is that there isn't many whales, and there is one ****load of Kangaroos.....they tend to breed like rabbits.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11Agreed, Ive run over enough roo's in my ute to know there is plenty more where they came from. Its like complaining someone is going to kill a big chunk of pigeons, who would really care apart from the bleeding hearts.
- Rooster99, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11As someone who spend most of his life in Canberra, let me say that this is a great idea. Not the nicest thought in the world, but when you can honestly say to people that you will see at least 2-3 freshly killed roo's on the way to work, then thats a problem. I have hit 2 of them and seen many people hit them too.
When they are overpopulated they run out of food in the bush, and come into the suburbs looking for scraps. And roo's are real bastards on the road. Just when you think it knows you are driving towards it and it jumps out of the way to let you pass, it will dive right back out infront of the car. They are completely suicidal. And solid, so when you hit it it ***** the car! - FrozenGonad, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11We also culled another of their natural predators. The Aborigine
- vonskippy, on 05/17/2008, -0/+11Meh, who cares. They're like big rats (except with smaller brains) just shoot'm and be done with it. What a waste of time and money to drug them then kill them. The whole world is turning into one big pussy (and I don't mean that in a good way).
- chromerium, on 05/17/2008, -0/+10"Somebody think of the poor roos!"
They need to be culled. I grew up in the bush and they are nowhere near being endangered; if there were slightly tastier then maybe there'd be a problem but they are a real acquired taste.
They're basically giant bouncing rats that if we let them breed out of control would pose a massive problem for farmers and also for motorists.
Quoth wikipedia: Kangaroos account for over 60% of animal collisions in Australia; the next most common victim being dogs at 12%.
The problem is when a roo hits say, a car, generally the driver ends up with 100kg of roo in the face.
You should also be outraged over our systematic genocide against fluffy bunny rabbits ... - Stonekeeper, on 05/17/2008, -1/+11When i stayed in Australia a while back, some people i knew went out shooting Kangeroos. Initially I was totally shocked, but then came to realise that it's a cultural thing. If you replaced the word "Kangaroos" with "Rats" in that last sentance, most would have no beef about it. Unfortunately, Kangeroos are often on a par with rats with regards to being a pest. Roos *are* cute, and that's the problem. If they were pig-ugly, nobody would say anything...
- soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -0/+10In Texas we like killing everything. I say good huntin to ya!
- superkendall, on 05/17/2008, -3/+12Shut up, actual Australian. How dare you bring reality into a proper Digg Roo-Love-Fest!
- Erectile, on 05/17/2008, -1/+10The only people who will have a problem with this are people who don't live in Australia and don't know how fast these ***** breed.
- Crioca, on 05/17/2008, -1/+9You have to understand how the reproductive process of kangaroos work before you go off on a tangent about how cruel/unnecessary this culling is. Let me put it this way: A female kangaroo is pregnant 99% of the time, the only time they're *not* pregnant is the day they give birth, other than that they can pause the pregnancy. This means that when there is available food and water the kangaroo population *explodes*. Most of Australia is coming out of an incredibly severe drought and the rapidly expanding kangaroo population threatens livelihoods in a place where a lot of people simply aren't getting by.
- splash, on 05/17/2008, -0/+7Kangaroos are not an endangered species, whereas whales are. There are also a number of Australians who do not want the cull to go ahead. I think it has been delayed 3 times already.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -0/+7So your saying all we need todo is setup a Roo shooting holiday extravaganza for Texans and you will solve the problem for us ?
- TheRealToma, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6Well, Id hate to ruin it for you, but if you like the Great Barrier Reef, you might want to go check it out real soon. Its suffering from fertiliser run off and global warming. The roos tho, will be around alot longer than that.
- scizor600, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5roo meat isn't half bad either
- Greanbeens, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Yeah, and Japan etc doesn't lethally inject whales, they torture them for an hour or two and cut them up alive.
- soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -2/+7Dingo ate my baby.
- Wack3d, on 05/17/2008, -1/+5Man I miss shooting them, rabbits roos foxes and feral cats. Ahh good times gonna have to go back to Alice and go shooting pests again sometime.
- ghm101, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Oh, if the kangaroos overpopulate and are not culled?....
they starve to death, there are millions of them in a good year, better the bullet - kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Thankyou Aussiejan for speaking with intelligence and being real!!!
- kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Roo doesn't taste like ***** if you aren't a retard in the kitchen.
- kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Whats shocking to me is that they spent money researching a way to relocate them to appease a minority and just move the problem elsewhere!!! Should have just culled them in the first place and not listened to a few squeeky wheels.
- soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3give it to the poor. solve two problems at once.
- blangley, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4I live in Canberra and In fact Im driving around in a hire car as I hit one last week at Dusk. This Roo did 8k damage to my car and sadly the park ranger had to shoot it.
The fact is in Canberra we are in a draught and with the way we have managed the environment we have thrown the natural balance and most of the mechanisms that control population. The ranger that night had back to back road kill calls to attend to which he suggested is one of the reason our insurance premiums are a little higher.
In Canberra you cannot go anywhere without either seeing a damaged car on the side or the road, a carcass and even a group of Roos running across traffic.
For the love of god allow the Park Rangers to restore the natural balance. - goldfishey, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3yeah, the grey's are cute little skippy's. The reds are just ******* scary though!
- joshak, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Very true. This is because we cleared so much land for pastures/grazing and culled alot of their natural predators, such as the dingo.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3props for the mighty boosh ref :)
- AussieVesti, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Yeah, I've heard that farmers have been allowing casual hunters to shoot them off in their property. Wouldn't mind having a go. Haven't kangaroo meat in a long time.
- jjustice, on 05/17/2008, -4/+7I want one! I'll pay for shipping ;-)
- soupdawg30, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3We don't really say that but ok.
- xDreaminGx, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3My grandad hit a roo at 80kph and wrote his car off, he also suffered major lacerations to the face and had to have reconstructive surgery on his face.
I was in the back seat at the time it happened, the roo was hopping up the side of the road and when it saw our car it got scared and went in front of us like a cat. - ysss, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3They're basically supersized bunnies with tummy pouches.
- Pantsuninja, on 05/17/2008, -2/+5Australia has about 10billion too many roos. They are looked at as a vermin there. If you walk around in Canberra at evening/night you will see them everywhere
- AussieCynic, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3They have been saying they will destroy the grass land... and perhaps a grasshopper ..
the thing is they wont remove part of the fence for short time either... - goldfishey, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3not to mention that bloody starfish that infested it. It has done quite a lot of damage.
- kjd84, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2No not at all just cook it properly. I rarely put marinade on my roo. You just have to cook it right. If you do that it is tender and really really nice.
- Murdats, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I have seen many times roo's take what looks like a suicidal turn in front of a car
they seem to act as though they have a deathwish, and want to take someone with them - steveoco, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2If that many could be killed for meat and processed it would be a great alternative, but i do not think the man power exists to kill and process that many. Shame that they will be wasted but it is a necessary process...
- cheekybastard, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Lets not jump to any conclusions yet.
- GalacticXenu, on 05/17/2008, -1/+3How you gets to kill a roo?
*squeezes its testicles*
It's all you have to do. - Myztry, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2They sell Kangaroo meat in Coles Supermarkets (largest Australian chain?) in Victoria. Why relocate the Kangaroo when they can just be 'farmed' off the land. Give an enterprising sole a permit. Problem solved...
If cows need to be removed an area for any reason, they don't relocate them. They just send them to the knackery... It's foolish to preserve one herd posing a problem, while at the same time other herds causing no problem are being processed through abatoirs. - inactive, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I don't know if the dingo was one of their "natural" predators in the strict sense, since they were only introduced by Austronesians around 5000 years ago, but they could have taken the place of some of the megafauna which were wiped out when the Aborigines came to Australia.
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