Asylum has been mooting it for some weeks now and it seems like it's all coming to a head. Humans are at war with animals. Anyone who has ever been to Australia will know it's home to some weird, creepy and downright dangerous beasts. But for all the sharks, crocodiles and killer spiders down under, it's marauding camels that are spearheading the latest charge against mankind.
That's right, 6,000 feral camels have launched an attack on the Northern Territory community of Docker River, where they are said to be causing chaos.
It all started a few weeks ago when around 30 camels headed into the small town looking for water. Since then more have arrived each day and they soon outnumbered the 330 local residents, now there are more than 6,000 camels.
Residents have rightly gotten the hump (we can only try and apologise) and are said to be scared to leave their homes because the marauding camels have already knocked down some buildings and smashed over water mains.
The government say the situation has got to a critical point and has now announced the camels will be rounded up, taken out of the town and humanely shot in a mass cull. How do you humanely shoot something? Get a human to do it?
There are over a million camels in the Aussie outback. A small number were introduced in the 19th century to help with the construction of railway lines, but with few natural predators they have bred.
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Friday 27 November
By sparky
what is camel meat like to eat?
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Friday 27 November
By Peddler
Camel meat is very good.The younger the animal the more tender, but it taste like modt meat I had it regular in Saudi Arabia in the nineties
Friday 27 November
By humpty dumpty
sounds like a good business oppertunity.
Kentucky Fried Camel
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Friday 27 November
By Mike
Camel meat is fine. Tastes a bit like lamb but is a bit more solid in texture. They eat a lot of it in North Africa (natch) and it is readily available in restaurants there
Mike
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Friday 27 November
By willow
just like AUSSIE to call it humanely killing the poor Camels who are just looking for water,some one once said to me a Aussie is a bit like a Dingo ,i was shocked that a person could be so nasty to poor little Dingo.Aussies give me the creeps ,real abbo`s are ok but those other kind well its shame the Camels & Dingo`s no eat them well its only a thought it be a humane thing to do save the Camels
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Friday 27 November
By Livvia
Not all aussie's are bad! stop generalising and tarring them all with the same brush, my uncle is aussie and my cousins are half so. not all are bad. they have their odd habits and quirkie characteristics as all countires and societies do! so don't be racist!
Now i dont like the idea of culling the camels. I mean why not round them up and put them in a huge fenced off, designated place. with water supplied to them. where they can live wild and free to a point but dont get in the way? there is a humane way to go about this. shooting isnt the option.
humans do have nasty habit of destoying anything created by mother nature taht gets in our way. forests and woodlands, anmimals. countless speicies have become extinct and i know we are all to blame, whether or not we did it personally.
Liv
Monday 30 November
By patricia youtan
If the Australian authorities are capable of rounding them up to 'shoot them humanely' then why can't they round them up, give them the water they so obviously are desperate for and send them on their way?
Randomly shooting them is NOT the way forward!
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Friday 27 November
By Brian
What's wrong with running a pipe a couple of miles into the desert and giving the camel their own water hole, then they wouldn't need to go into town, eh? They have a right to live too.
Friday 27 November
By Gordon Johnston
Typical of Aussie's after all look at where they all originated from............Criminals they only real australian is an aboriginal, they belong to that country, not the big mouthed crroks relatives
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Friday 27 November
By willow
Livvia if you notice in my comment ,i did say real abbo`s are ok ,i am not racist to many of you jump on that band wagon when it suit you,humans and animals is not a good mix ,humans think as long as animals no there place its ok fore them to live,these are living things that should have rights to a place not just be shot because some ass wipe thinks its ok,who ever passed that those animals should be shoot should them self be taken out back and hunted oh look i said some thing wrong,every one know`s Aussies like to hunt its just there way of finding new targets.and befor you go on about been racist i have lived in a country that treats my kind like shit 3rd class so befor you beat that stick i no how it feels
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Friday 27 November
By M.
''Ausies give me creeps...'' your words. So, looks like Livvia is right.
Friday 27 November
By Mike
I love the comment by Willow saying he does not like Australians but uses the derogative word for the aboriginies of Australia., who he claims to like!! Shows he is not racist !!!
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Friday 27 November
By Ni Rogers
Its all very well to sit up here in the quiet solitude of England, but you don't have to put up with the blighters. No I'm not from down under, but I have been there on several occasions, and served alongside 8 RAR and 1 RNZIR and on countless occasions have been involved in their training for Viet Nam, and a nicer bunch you could never meet (drunk or sober) white or Aboriginy and if there was an alternarive I think one would have already been found.
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Friday 27 November
By Teresa
Leave them alone to get on with life. We are all Gods ceatures.
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Friday 27 November
By sime
The Aussies are the most evenly balanced people in the world, they have a chip on each sholder, they don't like anyone...
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Friday 27 November
By GeoffB
A humane way to deal with this particular problem would be to neuter the camels and then place them all in an area where there is ample water to live the rest of their natural lives contentedly but the people who are responsible for making such decisions are probably people who were educated from some books - and if it ain't in the books it can't be done! ;)
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Friday 27 November
By barbara
Your comment geoffB is the sensible one, i was thinking this myself.
Saturday 28 November
By Len T.
Why would anyone resort to name calling, instead, give the people what they are looking for put your negative issues and some of that nasty energy into something constructive like... a viable solution to a rather large problem. I believe most civilized people wouldn't want to see mass killing of any form of life with no end use (killing and just leaving them to decay should never be considered as an option.) Governments of the world generally spin similar rhetoric. Put it to those other governments, look for tenders, Just because locally an acceptable solution has not yet been found doesn't mean one is not available elsewhere. 60,000 camels did not just happen overnight. Somebody hasn't been doing their job! Start earning your money business will not just come to you, get out there and get it.
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Saturday 28 November
By noobshooter991
ITS DISGUSTING KILLING CAMELS 4 MEAT U DIRTY PEOPLE WHY DONT U PICK....EAT SOMTHINURE OWN SIZE... LIKE YOURSELFS!!!
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