https://www.watoday.com.au/national/kgari-tourists-given-sticks-after-dingo-attack-20230719-p5dpd3.html?ref=rss
Tourists on K'gari have been given plastic poles to help them fend off dingo attacks.
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"? 🤦🏼♂️
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.
But it's such a bad weapon. A cardboard tube might be the only thing worse. A child with a fork can do more damage than PVC pipe.
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.
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.
I think this is a response to the woman jogging that was nearly killed by 4 dingos. I doubt a PVC pipe would help against 4 dingos let alone one. An attacking dog is hard to fight off so I would imagine a dingo is no easier.
Wait. I genuinely thought that was just a metaphor for the historical massacre and subjugation of the indigenous people. Rabbits beat the Aussies, too?
Yeah, we spent ages getting a rabbit only virus ready, and accidentally released it way too early. So a bunch of rabbits died, and the ones that lived had children that were immune enough to live.
Or something like that, it's been a while since I've read about it.
IIRC, that was the premise for the TMNT setting in a post-apoc down under for the RPG back in the 90s. 🤣🤘🏼
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.
While a park ranger might well be employed by the federal government... calling a park ranger "the Australian government" is a bit much.
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.
We don't want to kill the dingoes, we just want to give them a little bang on the noggin so they don't maul our wives or eat our babies