‘OUTBACK police in Queensland’s $3 billion beef industry are investigating one of the biggest cattle-duffing operations since the days of the Devil’s Triangle and bushranger Captain Starlight.
Cape York grazier Scott Harris, owner of the state’s biggest single pastoral lease in the vast Strathmore Station near Croydon, had 860 head of prime bullocks stolen from his fattening blocks near Tambo three months ago.
The station owner has posted a $100,000 reward to help solve the riddle of how nearly $1 million of stock vanished in a theft that would have required a handful of stockmen, dogs, and at least four road trains…’
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
CrusaderRabbit
Bet they were stolen boldly and in plain sight and no one thought anything of it—
C-CS
That’s the way it’s usually done, Carol. Not that there’s anybody out there to see it.
We’re off to photograph a big camp-drive on Wednesday…..over a thousand head of prime red cattle, and they’re coming through the little property somebody we know owns. (mind you, I wouldn’t mind owning even a “little” 20,000 acre cattle property like that)