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A U.S. Influencer Outrages Australians by Snatching a Baby Wombat From its Mom
NPR ^ | March 14, 2025 | Rachel Treisman

Posted on 03/15/2025 11:08:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: wildcard_redneck

Hitler was a vegetarian who wept when he visited a cattle slaughterhouse.


21 posted on 03/15/2025 12:37:22 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

Why not? It’s gun-control redux.


22 posted on 03/15/2025 12:52:41 PM PDT by DPMD
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To: KarlInOhio

And baby rattle snakes (grab them quickly just behind the head).


23 posted on 03/15/2025 12:57:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: nickcarraway

First thing...unite mom with baby wombat. Make sure baby wombat survives. 2nd thing: find u.s. influencer and place her between mama bear and bears cub.


24 posted on 03/15/2025 2:10:50 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: JayGalt

Like Hamas? Really?


25 posted on 03/15/2025 2:24:03 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Hodar

The childish worship of animals, is childish. She shouldn’t mess with wild animals because of various risks to the human.
This incident lasted about 30 seconds.


26 posted on 03/15/2025 2:26:09 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: nickcarraway

At least it wasn’t a baby dingo...


27 posted on 03/15/2025 2:40:12 PM PDT by eldoradude ("What is a person but a collection of choices..." )
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To: Williams

Like Hamas she videoed her crime. Yes. They did & she did. Different crimes. Same impulse to brag about the actions.


28 posted on 03/15/2025 2:47:14 PM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: DesertRhino

The other ones are complete bullshit
You want something corny?
You got it
There’s a house on my street
And it looks real neat
I’m the chap who lives in it
There’s a tree on the sidewalk
There’s a car by the door
I’ll go for a drive in it

And when the wombat comes
He will find me gone
He’ll look for a place to sit

My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay

-The Police (On Any Other Day)


29 posted on 03/15/2025 2:47:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: eldoradude
"At least it wasn’t a baby dingo..."
30 posted on 03/15/2025 4:32:27 PM PDT by DAC21 (")
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To: JayGalt

Except no one has pointed out a law against picking up a baby wombat for 30 seconds. Cause it isn’t.

In addition to your comparison to Hamas being insane.


31 posted on 03/15/2025 4:36:35 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Williams

This species of wombat is a protected marsupial found only in Australia. Australia prohibits people from harming or taking native wildlife. Australian authorities say her actions were against the law and that it is highly likely she would be refused a visa if she ever tried to visit Australia again.

I think it is the ultimate display of narcissism to chase and remove a baby of any species from it’s terrified mother for a vanity photo.
Lastly saying two people are similar in one way can be true or false. Either way it does not follow that the people are similar in any other way. She neither raped, or murdered the wombat although she did torture the wombat & its mother and kidnapped it for a short time. I wonder why you feel such a strong need to defend her actions? I find her callousness appalling.


32 posted on 03/15/2025 5:03:19 PM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: JayGalt

Oh grow up.


33 posted on 03/15/2025 7:35:26 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Hodar

I watch Dean Schneider with his lion pride and see just how affectionate even ferocious predators can be. He raised them from cubs but says that they will view any other human as either enemy or food so he would never be able to bring another human near them. That said, even their loving nature with each other is instinctual.


34 posted on 03/16/2025 12:09:33 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: kelly4c

That lady who kept a pet chimpanzee in a Connecticut suburb should have done the same.


35 posted on 03/16/2025 7:46:12 AM PDT by Ladybird99
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To: nickcarraway
...influencer...

That happens to an odd pronoun for a dick-head with a phone or camera.

36 posted on 03/16/2025 3:59:31 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Ladybird99

Oh yeah I faintly remember that. It attacked her friend right? If I recall I called her face up so bad she had to have extensive plastic surgery *shudder*


37 posted on 03/17/2025 9:08:04 PM PDT by kelly4c
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