Skipping School in Australia Looks Like Fun

[Bigshankhank]

[media]http://youtu.be/STHpMUYeznQ[/media]

[Sisyphus]

LOL
I had something else planned as it rolled. Went something like this:

"Throw map out window at 0:18. Six weeks later only two survivors found, naked and emaciated, mad with hunger in the Northern Territory, somewhere south of Sydney. Forced to eat their companions and drink their own pee."

[DerGolgo]

Well, when it comes to problems that would have people over here in Euroland scratch their heads, the Aussies are often surprisingly practical.
Like cane toads. Bloody plague over there, invasive species and all that. Over here, you'd get government panels and scientists testing out different poisons and control strategies and whatnot, and many many protests from animal rights groups about cruelty towards those creatures ... they didn't ask to be an invasive species and all that.
One of my cousins down there, outdoorsy type, after she was done using her bikini to help her sell ice cream and beer from a dinghy to drunken businessmen on yachts in Sidney harbor, she hired on with their parks service, as a cane toad population control technician. Her tools were a pair of sturdy boots and a nine iron. Her training was the word "swing". Works well enough, apparently.
I applaud this. It's got all the right ingredients to grab impressionable kid's attention, while being also having all the right ingredients to make them remember the message. Dunno how effective it'll be in the long term but, in the short term, it'll at least get watched a lot by the right audience.

[motorpsycho67]

Thankfully, I was too young to drive when I went to school in Australia.


Wonder what beach that was....

[Sisyphus]

Probably the only one without box jellies or saltwater crocs or some sort of maneating shark. That's why they decided to use it for explosives testing.

[Mk3]

I just spent the day commanding the 461st Munitions Squadron against North Berninia on D-Day + 1, where by now we've built enough bombs to level most major cities. Then had the distinct pleasure of speaking to my ex-wife and not my son because he was already in bed...

Then I got to see Australians dying violently by aerial bombardment.

not so Strangely, my night just improved.

Thank you fellow Ootmics

[Bigshankhank]

Aerial bombardment? I thought it was an artillery range.

[DerGolgo]

At first, I thought it was an anti-landmine spot. After they revealed the "explosives testing" sign, I thought UXBs.

[Rench]

I'm not sure what I just saw, but the accents make it permissable. Carry on.

-Rench

[Mk3]

artillery don't usually make proper mushroom clouds, though I doubt the wombat molesters (again Johnny is not included in my spite) bothered with that level of accuracy.