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More dumb human tricks.
Oct. 24th, 2002 07:44 amSomebody in Queensland decided to get revenge for the Bali bombings by vandalising a temple. Only thing was, it was a Buddhist temple. (Not that attacking a mosque would've been any more productive, but it would've demonstrated slightly less idiocy.)
A Senate inquiry has concluded that our defence minister deliberately misled the public last year by propagating claims that refugees had thrown their children into the sea, and refusing to correct this claims long after he knew them to be false.
You're in the Northern Territory, and you're thinking of taking a late-night swim in that nice cool waterhole. It has a sign up showing two things: a picture of a large swimming reptile with lots of teeth and jaws wide open, and another of a person swimming with a big red line across them. It also has a lot of text, in which the word 'crocodile' appears prominently. Do you (a) go swimming, or (b) not go swimming?
Tuesday evening a bunch of tourists picked (a), with the results you might expect; they recovered the body yesterday. The crocodile was shot, which seems a bit rough for doing what comes naturally to crocs (in a national park, at that.) It's not clear whether the tour guide encouraged them to swim, but the dead woman was 24. That's old enough to read warning signs.
If only the consequences of stupidity could be limited to the stupid.
A Senate inquiry has concluded that our defence minister deliberately misled the public last year by propagating claims that refugees had thrown their children into the sea, and refusing to correct this claims long after he knew them to be false.
You're in the Northern Territory, and you're thinking of taking a late-night swim in that nice cool waterhole. It has a sign up showing two things: a picture of a large swimming reptile with lots of teeth and jaws wide open, and another of a person swimming with a big red line across them. It also has a lot of text, in which the word 'crocodile' appears prominently. Do you (a) go swimming, or (b) not go swimming?
Tuesday evening a bunch of tourists picked (a), with the results you might expect; they recovered the body yesterday. The crocodile was shot, which seems a bit rough for doing what comes naturally to crocs (in a national park, at that.) It's not clear whether the tour guide encouraged them to swim, but the dead woman was 24. That's old enough to read warning signs.
If only the consequences of stupidity could be limited to the stupid.
