[What Is Ain't]

Someone alert PETA.

[TomServo]

Why didn't they just hire Nugent to do this? It would only take him a couple of hours.

[demlosers]

Those dang roos are like rabbits.

[lsee]

The law of unintended consequences strikes again...

[mseltzer]

Be careful of eating at McDonalds in the coming months.

[jeremiah]

Animal welfare activists, said they were prepared to stand between hunters and kangaroos

Good.

[Grut]

Er... the Army is hiring people to shoot for them?

[gwynapnudd]

"Animal welfare activists have said they were prepared to stand between shooters and kangaroos if they deem that the animals are being unnecessarily killed. "

"I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five. Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind have lost track myself. but bein' this is a 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question.......do i feel lucky?..........well do ya punk?"

[No Truce With Kings]

Maybe I am strange, but I do not understand why an Army would hire hunters to do shooting for them, even for kangaroos. Seems to me an excellent opportunity for realistic live-fire practice. If not line troops, then snipers.

[in the Arena]

Dust off your Sharps they need you down under...

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

I'll buy the skins for these!

[scouse]

Any animal whose collective name is "A Mob" deserves to be shot.

[gwynapnudd]

[gitmo]

Reckon it's sort of like quail hunting except they don't keep going up?

[cynicom]

I think we best be taking a close look at the "beef" those Aussies ship here.

[Kermit]

My Dad had a pair of kangaroo leather books, the softest leather ever. Wish I had a pair.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Station: 3AW Date: 17/05/2002
Program: DRIVE Time: 1630
Compere: STAN ZEMANEK
Summary ID: M00006980494
Item: CULL OF KANGAROOS AT PUCKAPUNYAL ARMY BASE: INTERVIEW WITH DR.HUGH WIRTH, RSPCA

ZEMANEK: Is it true also that the land really can only take 40 or 50,000 kangaroos, but in actual fact there's over 100,000?

WIRTH: There is certainly over 100,000.  The estimates are guesstimates about what is sustainable.  The Army, up to date, has failed to produce a kangaroo management plan for their base. They have now promised a draft kangaroo management plan on Monday.  A copy will be given to the Department and to the RSPCA to approve or disapprove, as the case may be, and it will be then that they'll produce the facts on sustainability.

ZEMANEK: What do you think about the animal active protesters who have said, and I quote: they will put their bodies on the line to stop the cull?

WIRTH: Well, that's ridiculous.  It's not helping the kangaroos.  Look, we have a major crisis at Puckapunyal.  There is a great deal of suffering, and the Western cultural ethic is when you've got an animal suffering you put it out of its misery. Now, if they like to stand in front of the guns, so be it, but I hope that the Military Police attend to them.

[mamelukesabre]

I was going to ask why they don't have some kind of program where the meat is processed and used as food. But then I read the part about how they are starving to death and only the sick ones will be shot. The muscle tissue of a starving animal isn't the best thing in the world to eat. In fact, if you yourself are starving, eating the muscle of a starving animal will kill you. It's called protein poisoning.

[Movemout]

"Animal welfare activists have said they were prepared to stand between shooters and kangaroos if they deem that the animals are being unnecessarily killed. "

I second the motion. Bury 'em with the Roos.

I would offer the tanners and meat processors a chance to bid on the harvest to help pay for the extermination costs. (Just the Roos. The activists should be left to rot in the sun as an abject lesson to liberals of all stripes.)

[Utopia]

The animals will be shot in the head, and their carcasses buried in mass graves on the base.

What a waste! If they have to be killed, at least make use of their skins. Kangaroo rugs are very nice. I used to own a couple.