The horror!

Posted on October 14, 2011 by KG

‘Boy caught driving armed and towing dead donkey
Northern Territory Police say a Central Australian man will face court after his 13-year-old son was caught driving a damaged vehicle with a loaded rifle in the front seat and towing a dead donkey…’     source
Doesn’t sound like anything very unusual for remote parts of the N.T. The 13 year old is almost certainly perfectly capable of handling firearms, a beat-up ute and a dead donkey.

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24 Responses to The horror!

  1. Redbaiter says:
    October 14, 2011 at 20:00

    “about 160 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs”

    FFS, those cops should have a lot more to do than this.

    What an utter fucking travesty of justice.

    That article is one of the most disgusting things I’ve read about what is happening in Australia today, and believe me I’ve read plenty of disgusting things.

  2. KG says:
    October 14, 2011 at 20:05

    They have got a lot more to do. This huge bust sure beats dealing with violent drunks and battered women, though. Keeping feral donkeys safe from marauding 13 year-olds should look good on the CV.
    Wankers.
    (half the trouble is, a lot of the cops have been recruited from Southern states and they’ve brought their rotten PC bullshit attitudes with them).
    The Territory managed to get along just fine without this crap for a century or more.

  3. Redbaiter says:
    October 14, 2011 at 20:50

    Fucking urban liberals have a lot to answer for.

  4. Darin says:
    October 14, 2011 at 22:18

    “They say the donkey carcass was being towed with a chain.”

    Were they expecting Dental floss?

    “Two other firearms, a 20-gauge shotgun and a high-powered .243 rifle, and 100 rounds of ammunition were found on the back seat of the dual cab utility.”

    Must be poor folks,ONLY a hundred rounds?Let’s see that’s 20 shot shells,24 .243 rounds and a half brick of .22lr,yep obviously he’s off to overthrow the government :roll:

    “Police found a 13-year-old boy driving the unroadworthy vehicle, with a loaded .22 bolt-action rifle in the front seat,” he said.”

    “Unroadworthy”?It’ll pull a dead Donkey down the road just fine.

    Bolt action you say?Obviously he was planning to rob a bank :roll:

    “The rifle had nine rounds in the magazine and one round in the chamber.”

    Well?Without bullets it’s a f–king stick.

    “The vehicle was unroadworthy, with severe damage to the front end and the bonnet was held down with a tie-down strap.”

    So maybe he hit the Donkey then? :roll: I’ve drove stuff with the corner of the “bonnet” cut out to make it easier to crank with jumpers.If it rolls it’s roadworthy.

    Must be cops from the city,out in the country they would have stopped and helped him load the Donkey up so he could make better time.

  5. Cadwallader says:
    October 15, 2011 at 06:06

    Another non-story from the msm I expect. How more diverting it would be as: “A 13 yo donkey was driving a ute towing a human by a chain.”
    The contents of the story underlines how out of focus over-funded and over-unionised police forces can become. I would have thought there were plenty of incidences of child abuse in NT to keep the cops busy, but do they not investigate in the Aboriginal communities?

  6. ZenTiger says:
    October 15, 2011 at 07:15

    Paint the donkey black and white and throw the cops in jail for getting the boy to stop so close to a zebra crossing. They should know pulling the driver over so close to a zebra crossing would have endangered all of the pedestrians wandering over that busy highway.

  7. Katie says:
    October 15, 2011 at 08:15

    I didn’t know it was illegal to drag a Democrat in back of one’s car. Learn something every day.

  8. dondiego says:
    October 15, 2011 at 14:29

    IMO the boy is obviously going to grow into a hard-working, skilled, experienced young man- therefore: cops better to nip it in the bud now. ALL Australians must be wrapped in cotton wool.
    Otherwise they wont even need cops (or other govt interference out there)

  9. mara says:
    October 15, 2011 at 19:37

    Call me a fool, I don’t care, but I would hate any child of mine to feel easy about the sight of some poor bloody, innocent animal, probably shot cruelly, being skinned behind a moving vehicle. Call it anthropomorphism or just plain dignity towards the stuff we kill to eat. The image I got from this story is of humans whom civilisation has completely bypassed. I would feel happier if I thought the animal had been humanely despatched. Good hunter/bad hunter.

    • Darin says:
      October 16, 2011 at 04:05

      Ya,your right,shame to let good meat go to waste.Never ate Donkey before,wonder if it’s as good as Horse?

      • Oswald Bastable says:
        October 16, 2011 at 17:37

        It’s all good in a salami! :mrgreen:

        • KG says:
          October 16, 2011 at 17:41

          Too right. In one remote NT community we lived in, they used helicopters to kill hundreds of wild pigs and the livers and lungs went to Germany to make sausage.
          There were still hundreds running around after they’d filled the shipping containers. Wiping them out is an impossible job.

          • Darin says:
            October 16, 2011 at 23:23

            Funny you should mention feral Hogs,I and a couple buds are about to begin building live traps for them.We are nearly over run here with them.Got to catch them and feed them out on grain for a month before slaughter otherwise the meat is too strong tasting.Them eating Acorns and Tung nuts does not make for good tasting pig :shock:

  10. KG says:
    October 16, 2011 at 07:25

    Mara, there are thousands of these feral donkeys out there. I’d bet the young man shot it in the most efficient way possible and he was towing it home for dog tucker.
    It’s a simple reality of life in the bush. Much as I love animals, I’d have no compunction shooting one of these–working dogs have to eat and something has to die to feed them. The ‘natural’ deaths these donkeys suffer are very far from pleasant, believe me–a bullet is a mercy.

  11. KG says:
    October 16, 2011 at 07:32

    “…The image I got from this story is of humans whom civilisation has completely bypassed”
    Well, the image I get from people who buy their meat in supermarkets is of people who are happy to have others do their dirty work for them just so long as they can pretend the ugly reality of killing to eat doesn’t exist.
    People in the bush don’t leave neighbours without comfort or company. They don’t turn a blind eye to child abuse. They don’t refuse to help or pretend not to know help is needed. They don’t tolerate their kids forming feral gangs or refusing to work or doing drugs while the taxpayer supports them….and so on.
    I’d say the bush and the culture of bush families are a damn sight more civilised than what passes for civilisation in the cities–sitting at an outdoor cafe in order to flash the latest designer label isn’t civilisation.

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      October 16, 2011 at 17:33

      “…the image I get from people who buy their meat in supermarkets is of people who are happy to have others do their dirty work for them just so long as they can pretend the ugly reality of killing to eat doesn’t exist.”

      GUILTY! Meat doesn’t come from animals – it comes shrink-wrapped from the butcher’s shop. :oops: :lol:

  12. MK says:
    October 16, 2011 at 09:03

    The worst is that the state will punish him with no mercy, that’s the way it is here now.

    “The 13 year old is almost certainly perfectly capable of handling firearms…..”

    Yes, but the scum in power can’t, probably wet their undies when they heard about it too.

  13. mara says:
    October 16, 2011 at 10:23

    Yeah alright, upon reconsideration, and just this once OK, you MAY be right JK. Don’t let it go to your head, is all. :roll:

  14. KG says:
    October 16, 2011 at 11:08

    :mrgreen: why, thank you ma’am. (and it won’t go to my head–I’m wrong too often for that to happen ;-) )

  15. mara says:
    October 16, 2011 at 16:44

    KG, I wrote JK by mistake,and wasn’t pissed either. Sorry. But I do like a grovel. :razz: