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Originally posted by Halx
I'm not sure where I stand on this. First, you can automatically throw out their reason for doing this in the first place because nature has a way of correcting itself. Second, the whole ecosystem could be thrown off balance by this. Third, WTF do I care? They're kangaroos, not people.
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If we let nature 'correct' itself, then there would be a hell of a lot of kangaroos slowly dying, and when they doo that, they wander into urban areas... by the hundreds.
For starters i'll tell you this. We're not talking about cute cuddly kiddies toys here... kangaroos are big fuckers. They stand as tall as a man and are much stronger, and far angrier.
It's not our fault they've overbred. There's 19 million of the bastards in Australia at the moment, mostly because just before the drought started, there were rare optimal conditions in the heartland of OZ, and noone was allowed to shoot them. Now there's a drought on, there all heading south to graze on important monocultures... and we can't have that.
I'm living not that far from Puckapunyal at the moment, and i can tell you there are thousands of the fuckers around. I can tell you this cause you can't drive faster than 80 km/h at night here at the moment... if you hit one of those things, your fucked.
You don't believe they're threatened? Try sizing up to one of those bastards... they'd rip you to shreds. I've lost countless dogs to Kangaroos when i was young. Believe me, if you have big buck kangaroos hopping through urban areas, you have problems.
By the way, we do eat roos, just not wild ones... too many diseases.
The answer to P'Punyal's problem? Shoot 'em all...