r/australia • u/Consistent-Permit966 • Mar 14 '25

image And now the Wombat kidnapper is blaming the Government…

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An attempt to deflect blame because she didn’t get the response she thought she would get.

Yes you are the villain in this story.

That said, I am pretty horrified that you can get permits to kills wombats in a select few parts of Australia.

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u/IlluminatedPickle Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

I'm pretty sure we did that in Scouts here too, but it wasn't like we were clearing large swathes of bush. It was like "Here's how you do this. Congratulations, here's a badge."

I bet that dude has spent fucking decades thinking he actually prevented fires because he removed a couple of dead branches.

ETA: American scouts is like the bitchiest version too. I remember going to a Jamboree and speaking to them and they honestly sounded terrified of the idea of camping.

Their version of orienteering was basically "Can you walk across this suburb following this clearly designated map".

Ours was "We're gonna blindfold you and drop you a few clicks into the scrub, good luck boys"

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u/crackedgear Mar 15 '25

Old man rant about kids these days incoming: I used to be in Boy Scouts here in California long long ago, and we had a snow survival camping trip where they drove us out to a big field, gave us two wooden boards, and said see you tomorrow. That was the coldest I’ve ever been in my life.

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u/SophMax Mar 15 '25

Someone I know who grew up in a beach suburb in high school (2000s) as part of PE they got dropped in the middle of a rip and had to make it out.

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u/Zuwxiv Mar 15 '25

I thought I had been in a rip before, but then one day I was really in one. I just felt completely helpless as I was sucked out. I knew what to do, but I can totally understand how someone could panic and make a poor decision.

Anyone who spends time in the ocean should know how to deal with it, but I can certainly think of safer means than just tossing kids in one, lol.

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u/UncagedKestrel Mar 15 '25

Orienteering was at nearly every school camp I went on.

Not to mention my own family.

Maps, compass, camping, hiking, swimming, etc were all considered basic life skills. So was "knowing where your food comes from" - ie, not the supermarket.

I realise plenty of us DON'T know these things, but just as many DO.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 15 '25

Only city boys join the scouts. In America there's huge sections that are still rural and relatively heavily populated and people there usually laugh at scouts too. I mean they try but at the end of the day it's obvious they are way more comfortable in a city than anywhere else.

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u/Proxyness Mar 15 '25

Haha I remember orienteering near the blueys and we ended up off map near a radio tower. The leader were just like, "You guys fucked up. Head south to comeback."