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TERROR BIRD BELIEVED EXECUTED

The jihad rooster that yesterday attacked a four-year-old girl—causing serious injuries, by the way; she’s been airlifted to hospital with a collapsed lung—has been smashed, according to the girl’s uncle:

“I don’t think the rooster’s alive. Knowing my brother, he would’ve smashed it.”

In other Australian animal news, a crocodile has been stolen and traded for drugs:

“The original plan was to steal a koala - that’s what they were going to use to swap [for] the drugs,” [zookeeper Wil] Kemp said.

”[But] apparently [the koala] scratched the shit out of them.”

The thieves then decided to take a crocodile instead.

“I don’t know what makes someone go, ‘Oh we tried to steal a koala and that didn’t work so lets go and steal a croc.’”

UPDATE. Why can’t roosters be more like horses?

Posted by Tim B. on 03/29/2006 at 12:08 AM
  1. Wait, they failed at stealing the koala and succeeded at stealing a crocodile?

    Koalas are meaner than I thought. And I though they were pretty mean before.

    Posted by tiggy on 2006 03 29 at 12:20 AM • permalink

  2. It was from the Rockhampton botanic gardens- they’ve only got little Johnson River crocodiles in there, about as mean as a blue-tongue lizard. Knowing what some of the ‘tards, inbreeds and hillbillies in rocky are like I’m surprised they didn’t just smoke the croc.

    (The already smoke cane toads).

    Posted by Habib on 2006 03 29 at 12:22 AM • permalink

  3. BTW “Smashed Rooster” sounds like a great name for a band- I might just use it.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 03 29 at 12:24 AM • permalink

  4. I was concerned for that girl. That’s why I didn’t attempt any pithy remark when the news was first posted. I do hope she recovers completely.

    The Cock is the national symbol of the French. Nasty dirty animals, both of ‘em.

    There was a US theft of a koala a few years ago. Some gang member stole it from a zoo to give to his sweetie on Valentine’s Day. The koala was recovered.

    Croc’s mouths are nasty with bacteria. All that decaying meat between their teeth. A broken skin nip from even a little one…

    Okay, I’ll shut up now.

    Posted by JDB on 2006 03 29 at 12:28 AM • permalink

  5. This reminds me of the story of a man from Rockhampton who was up before the courts for killing and eating a wombat.

    Through his barrister, the man explained that he was terribly sorry but he had recently lost his job, and was starving, and killed the wombat purely out of desperation to help to feed himself and his family.

    Being an understanding man, the judge let him off with a warning. After passing sentence, the judge asked the man, just out of curiosity what the wombat tasted like, to which the man replied:

    “Kind of a cross between koala and platypus.”

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 29 at 12:33 AM • permalink

  6. The koala didn’t scratch them, it thought they were politicians and simply pissed on them. Didn’t one do that some time ago? I can’t find the link though

    Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 03 29 at 12:49 AM • permalink

  7. A snake bites a wombat and it barely gets a mention? What has to happen for it to be news in Rockhampton? The wombat bite the snake?

    Posted by geoff on 2006 03 29 at 12:57 AM • permalink

  8. Habib — They shoulda tried for one’a them nice friendly saltwater crocs…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 29 at 01:01 AM • permalink

  9. Croc cones - only in Queensland.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 03 29 at 01:06 AM • permalink

  10. don’t tell the RSPCA and PETA-retards

    re: Koalas urinating politicians, scroll down to koalas here.
    the entry on Steve Irwin is worth a read, too. And Russell Crowe…

    Posted by kae on 2006 03 29 at 01:11 AM • permalink

  11. Plenty of them in the Fitzroy river, especially near the meatworks. We used to go fishing near the outlet for the power station in a flimsy plastic boat, and those bloody mobile handbags used to swipe an awful lot of hooked up barramundi from our lines; just as well they were too dumb to realise there was about 200lbs of fresh meat bobbing around straight above them.
    One got into the school rowing shen during a flood, and demolished the eight; Yeppen lagoon had a big bastard living in it next to the golf course- I think he had a sideline in used golf balls, as no-one would jump the fence to retrieve a fly hook shot- it was also a major incentive to keep your landings short at the airport, as the strip ran straight into the lagoon.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 03 29 at 01:14 AM • permalink

  12. I once saw at a scout camp, when I was a scout, a koala scratch the face of the son of a future Liberal cabinet minister. They’re not just fierce; they’re ideological.

    Posted by Andrew R on 2006 03 29 at 01:27 AM • permalink

  13. Habib — omigod — you’ve got koalas in your river?!

    Cuidado!
    Cuidado!
    Cuidado!
    Cuidado!
    Se koalas!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 29 at 01:30 AM • permalink

  14. We’re seeing the emergence of a new form of currency here.

    In the Northern Territory, you can swap cane toads for beer. In Queensland, it’s koalas and crocodiles for drugs.

    Mark my words, trading animals for intoxicants is the Next Big Thing.

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 29 at 02:08 AM • permalink

  15. I was referring to these scaly chaps, who are known in that neck of the woods as “geckos”.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 03 29 at 02:58 AM • permalink

  16. In other Australian animal news, a crocodile has been stolen and traded for drugs:

    ...

    “I don’t know what makes someone go, ‘Oh we tried to steal a koala and that didn’t work so lets go and steal a croc.’”

    Drugs, perhaps?

    Posted by david on 2006 03 29 at 03:04 AM • permalink

  17. At least it won’t be very difficult to find drug dealers in QLD - just look for a backyard full of crocs. Or the bloke walking one on a leash in the local park. Or the bloke getting eaten by his new pet in the local park. The mind boggles.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 03 29 at 03:15 AM • permalink

  18. Then again, a dealer giving his pet psycho koala or croc a snort of speed before taking them to visit one of his junkie customers who’s run up way to much credit might just do the trick…

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 03 29 at 03:22 AM • permalink

  19. You can fry a seasoned problem chicken after due process. You can roast, hang, flay, barbecue, toast, grill, quarter, ice and waste it. You can even boil it in oil.

    But smash it? Sorry. Not in any civilised country.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 03 29 at 03:44 AM • permalink

  20. Geoff : yes, but this is Australia.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2006 03 29 at 04:02 AM • permalink

  21. I can’t believe you’ve never had smashed rooster, Geoff. It’s up there with bashed crab. You’ve gotta try it.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 03 29 at 04:16 AM • permalink

  22. I thought that was only a French dish.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 03 29 at 04:24 AM • permalink

  23. Well, you can throw some snails and frogs in with it if you really want to, I suppose.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 03 29 at 04:29 AM • permalink

  24. #16 David
    Drugs, well, yes that’s possible. I was thinking of a more congenital affliction - total raving stupidity, to be precise - but I will concede the validity of your hypothesis.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 03 29 at 06:40 AM • permalink

  25. The koala didn’t scratch them, it thought they were politicians and simply pissed on them. Didn’t one do that some time ago? I can’t find the link though.

    You probably won’t - it was back in the days when ‘the internet’ meant a BB or, luxury, a dial-up Linux shell account and Pine was considered start-of-the-art.  It was the tourism minister in the Hawke government as I recall.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2006 03 29 at 07:15 AM • permalink

  26. Ah yes, tourism Minister Brown.  The koala showed very good taste.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 29 at 07:32 AM • permalink

  27. Smashed rooster, bashed crab, dropped pie.

    Superb cuisine in Oz.

    (spooky reminders there of the beautiful visages of the Margoyle and Kerry Nettles)

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 03 29 at 07:36 AM • permalink

  28. she’s been airlifted to hospital with a collapsed lung

    Do hope the young lady comes through in good shape.

    Don’t blame the father turning the chicken to chicken shit.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 03 29 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  29. #5, Damn you Margo’s Maid!  You can just clean up the mess you caused all over my screen.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 03 29 at 08:34 AM • permalink

  30. #21 Ah Coq au sludge,I presume.

    Posted by crash on 2006 03 29 at 08:50 AM • permalink

  31. Smashed rooster, bashed crab, dropped pie.

    Superb cuisine in Oz.

    In Missouri, it’s throwed rolls.

    Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 03 29 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  32. So what exactly does your typical Australian drug dealer do with a crocodile?

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 29 at 12:45 PM • permalink

  33. Excellent, now that the chicken has been executed, have it sent over, pronto.  It’s lunch time here.

    Posted by Major John on 2006 03 29 at 01:46 PM • permalink

  34. when is the candlelight vigil for the oppressed rooster?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 29 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  35. So what exactly does your typical Australian drug dealer do with a crocodile?

    One-up the dealers with pit bulls.

    Posted by jic on 2006 03 29 at 11:04 PM • permalink

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