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Plans to blow up rabbits shelved because of fire concerns
Herald Sun ^
| 28th January 2009
| William Jackson
Posted on 01/28/2009 12:05:08 PM PST by naturalman1975
MELBOURNE Water and Nillumbik Council have dropped plans to blow up rabbits with explosive gas after warnings about fire dangers.
A joint project using “oxygen detonation technology” to destroy warrens along the Diamond Creek, between Nillumbik Park and Diamond Creek Reserve, had been due to start on Tuesday this week, the Diamond Valley Leader reports.
A public notice issued by the council had advised residents they might hear regular “muffled explosions” as far as a kilometre away.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bunnygoboom; pests; wildlife
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To: naturalman1975
There’s the problem!
The foxes ate all the mathematicians.
On another note, here’s a question.
Is DYNAMITE native to Australia?
Tick tock... Tick tock... Tick tock...
Didn’t think so!
;-)
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:17:08 PM PST
by
djf
To: Lurker
Yes, then you have to introduce a pred. when the foxes are out of control.
I think the only enemy of the fox is teh3-toes sloath. Then you need to introduce hump back whales to get rid of all the sloaths.
Its a never ending cycle.
A-Kuna-matada!
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:17:34 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
To: naturalman1975
DAMN! They won't let themuse the Super Redenator?
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:18:08 PM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: Travis T. OJustice
Yep - that is what they are going to use.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:19:05 PM PST
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:19:05 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
To: naturalman1975
thermobaric rabbit bomb ping
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:19:14 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: naturalman1975
Time to call in a specialist.
To: Lurker
No natural predators? Rabbits? Wow...things sure are different down under :-P
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:19:57 PM PST
by
billakay
To: WOBBLY BOB
*sigh* yeah!
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:20:24 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 9 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
29 posts and no one brought up The Holy Handgrenade. I am depressed.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:22:14 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: TheMom; Eaker; humblegunner; Bacon Man; Hap; eastforker
I wonder how they’d feel about blowing up lemons, watermelons and water jugs?
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:22:51 PM PST
by
Allegra
( VOTE, Iraqis! Election Day, Saturday, January 31, 2009)
To: billakay
“No natural predators? Rabbits?”
*****
If memory serves, I think rabbits were introduced into Australia. So, a non-native species, with no native predator.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:23:23 PM PST
by
LuciaMia
To: naturalman1975
Rabbit is delicious.
Kill them and put them on a plate.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:23:59 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: naturalman1975
MELBOURNE Water and Nillumbik Council have dropped plans to blow up rabbits with explosive gas after warnings about fire dangers. 
Les: Can't be fireworks... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, they're rabbits!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're flaming and flying through the air right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, my goodness! Oh, the humanity! The rabbits are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!
As God is my witness I never thought rabbits could fly.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:24:48 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:25:22 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
To: naturalman1975
"Yum, bfbe, chedio., cydoeai cijdokdk."
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:28:17 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dissent is patriotic - Hussein is not and will never be my president.)
To: TASMANIANRED
“Rabbit is delicious. Kill them and put them on a plate.”
Someone who gets it. I would treat this the same way they treat the seal hunt in Canada.
Have a National Harvest Day, everyone packs a picnic lunch, mom wears her Dunday best, the kids bring their Louisville Sluggers out and POW POW POW....
Have a butcher on the premises to clean, package and offer tasty recipes for your kill.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:29:35 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("Control the information, you control the people.")
To: naturalman1975
I know I had that thought a few times when I owned one.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:29:54 PM PST
by
Dahoser
(America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
“Dunday best”
Ooops... Sunday, yeah that’s the ticket.
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posted on
01/28/2009 12:30:29 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("Control the information, you control the people.")
To: naturalman1975
Anything labelled as an “oxygen detonation technology” probably isn’t a good idea, unless it’s on a rocket.
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