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Diwundrin

Diwundrin

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Koalas? nup dun that. Endangered purple spotted toenail frogs, nup taken care of. All things fluffy 'n cute? nup.

Great White Sharks of course!!

Actually for once I'm with 'em all the way.

Someone, or two, got chewed on WA beaches and the local scuba school operator is howling bankruptcy so some mental giant on the Council has decide to lay poisoned baits all along the coast of the shire beaches, and over there they are biiiig shires.



The fact that it will kill indiscriminately every other species of meat eating marine creature doesn't figure on the bottom line of their Chamber of Commerce calculations obviously.
Yep. Think 'Jaws.'

The fact also that Great Whites themselves are endangered doesn't faze the Mayor either. All he's seeing is dropping tourist numbers. The current heat wave, and better, closer, cheaper, places to visit hasn't been considered.

Vastly more tourists die in 4 wheel drives than are ever eaten by sharks, that hasn't kept 'em away.
Actually I haven't added the tolls but I suspect more have been murdered by rurally roaming serial killers than sharks too.

When a Great White is standing grinning in my doorway I'll worry about 'em, until then, leave the poor buggers alone, stay out of their doorways!

There, that's my animals rights rant for the day.
 

Totally agree. It's the height of stupidity and a fine illustration of the smallness of humans that the Mayor and the Council are willing to kill an endangered species, just because of a fall-off in tourism.

Don't you folks have any higher level of government that can prevent what they're trying to do?
 
Why do Sharks swim circles around you before attacking?

Two great white sharks, swimming in the ocean, spied survivors of a sunken ship.
"Follow me, son." the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the mass of people.

"First we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing." And they did.

"Well done, son! Now we swim around them a few more times with all of our fins showing." And they did.

"Now we eat everybody." And they did.

When they were both gorged, the son asked, "Dad, why didn't we just eat them all at first?
Why did we swim around and around them?”

His wise father replied,

"Because they taste better without the $hit inside!"

:shark:
 

Those in government generally follow the money :dollar:, to hell with the animals, just keep the tourists happy enough to keep coming back! :rolleyes:
 
SeaBreeze said:
Why do Sharks swim circles around you before attacking?

Two great white sharks, swimming in the ocean, spied survivors of a sunken ship.
"Follow me, son." the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the mass of people.

"First we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing." And they did.

"Well done, son! Now we swim around them a few more times with all of our fins showing." And they did.

"Now we eat everybody." And they did.

When they were both gorged, the son asked, "Dad, why didn't we just eat them all at first?
Why did we swim around and around them?”

His wise father replied,

"Because they taste better without the $hit inside!"

:shark:
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:lofl::clap:

The Government and of course the Greens, did take a tilt at them but there's some technicality to do with different levels of Govt that allows local decisions to over-rule federal ones on some issues or some such.

There was much ado about this separation of powers some time back when they were trying to streamline the 3 levels of Government but it got buried under the shenanigans about other issues. We should have paid it more attention.
 
Well, maybe your Greens will go out in little boats and sacrifice themselves by eating the poisoned bait, thus killing two birds with one stone.
 
Just a thought. Did anyone check to see if the poison could leach out and effect other non meat eating animals or tourists bathing in the ocean? Or did the idiots just consider that to be a small risk and possible collateral damage worth the chance?
 
I'm pretty sure that any water-soluble poison isn't going to discriminate between sharks, angelfish or that couple on holiday from Surrey. That's the colossal stupidity of this plan.
 
Got that right Murph, not likely to trip over a Gt.White in the back garden.

No idea about the details of the poison etc, just going on news stories which is no great benchmark but I got lazy and didn't research.
 
SifuPhil said:
[ Snip ]Don't you folks have any higher level of government that can prevent what they're trying to do?
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Probably depends on our constitution and "States rights" ...... Western Australia and the Federal Governments are the same colour at the moment.
Maybe the UN could help; they have a finger in every other pie but I do like the Greens sacrifice idea too. :eek:
 
I'm not sure you'd want the UN involved - they're on a world conquest thing right now, and you'd just be enabling them.

*readjusting tin-foil hat*
 

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