Reply With QuoteI wonder if a greenie could acquire a few roo heads to leave in an obvious place to bring public scorn upon their target adversary group. (the fisho's)
Good tactics......
How are they getting over excited ? Its a very random occurance that a decapitated roo head (3) are found at a boat ramp nth of Brisbane. Yea look if they were dead roo's all in one piece, fair enough, but i think they have every reason to look into it. Its a random act and quite disturbing. No excuse at all for it to have occured, and if the rspca didnt act, youd have people whinging that they didnt. Do get sick of the country mentality towards roos sometimes...Originally Posted by SeaHunt
hope they find out how the roos heads were found on that ramp. un-australian if you ask me..
Last edited by Fish Guts; 02-08-2007 at 05:38 PM.
I wonder if a greenie could acquire a few roo heads to leave in an obvious place to bring public scorn upon their target adversary group. (the fisho's)
Good tactics......
SHHH Sea-Dog!!! fer chrissakes don't give their feeble minds fuel!!
Personally i think it would all stem down to something really simple.
As foxy said, they have most likely not come from a shot roo.
My best guess, and what i would have thought would have been obvious is that they have just taken it from roadkill to use as crab bait.
And then how many of us have just dumped mullet frames out of the pots after a days crabbing?
This is being made out to be alot bigger than it is.
Simply dumped bait.
What more is there to make of it?
Matt
Dumped bait I reckon.............. Finga's on the money about kids being traumatised by this type of occurence................ my dopey ex-wife bought a guinnea-pig for my daughter when she was about 3 even though we had a mastiff cross staffy gun dog (sheez). It had already eaten a rabbit kitten she brought home but she insisted I keep it in the cage and it would be fine. So I kept it in the cage in the garage for the first week or so but one day the dog wandered in the shed as I was doing whatever and spotted the cage and went over to have a sniff and then let out this huge BARK and little Fluffy grabbed it's chest and keeled over dead (still makes me giggle). I kicked the dog up the ar$e and grabbed Fluffy and chucked him/her/it in the bin and went out to polish the car. About 1/2 hr or so later my daughter wanders out of the garage asking where Fluffy is so i told her it was dead, she asked did the dog eat it and I said no but after the rabbit she didn't believe me so I pulled Fluffy out of the bin and showed her and she just shrugged her shoulders and went to play with her Barbies. Just proves that kids react the way they are taught or expected to...
My two young blokes (10&12) have been raised on the water and have watched me gut and kill fish etc and if they had seen these roo heads they would have said "SICK" and had a closer examination. I have never held back on life's basics (death etc) with 'em and they are well adjusted and normal.. BTW my daughter is now 22 and she is a mentally tough, unshakeable woman and heads up a senior dept for an (australian icon) multi-national clothes manufacturer (proud dad).......
Yeah dumped bait.......................
Shaman, great little story mate, still having a giggle myself. Exactly right though, blood them early and with the right attitude it can soften the blow. Spot on.
Matt
c'mon, take the bait....
Im with u darrmun . Seems u grew up in the great south east (brisbane vally or maybe Mary vally) too. Have u evered tried venions for bream bait she's the go . Im a hunter and a meat shooter, my family lives on the stuff. These blokes carring on about these bloody roo heads just dont no what goes on in the bush . Where not all feed on a silver spoon
My idea of a humane way of killing is to kill your chosen prey (wheather it be land or marine based) quickly and as painlessly as possible. When I'm out hunting with the bow or rifle I only aim for vital areas (head, heart/lung, spine) and if unsure that I can despatch the critter quickly I won't shoot. When I catch a fish, If it's to be kept it gets measured, cut the flap of skin under its gills then pull the head back breaking the neck.
I believe we owe our prey a quick death.
Hope this helps
Mic
Argggghhhh, sounds a bit grizzly heh? Fact...... all animals kill to survive, be it plants or other animals............. so do we? yeah!
We are omnivorous creatures, which means we eat steak and vegies.
The tree huggers would have us believe that we are not the apex predator because there are stronger and larger animals out there. Apparently we only became who we are through cheating and deception. One word dickheads, EVOLUTION, we became more intelligent to survive because we weren't the biggest or strongest, DUH!.
Now I do believe that among our bi-pedal community there are a few nasty examples but that happens among the rest of the food chain also.
I also believe that in the majority we dispatch our tucker quite expediantly and with a fair amount of mercy, unlike a pride of 30 or so lions pulling down a cow elephant and chewing her to death or a great white swallowing a seal whole.
All this muck over a couple of roo heads (which i must say are a fair way down the food chain) scaring our poor defenceless children into a myriad of nightmarish experiences.... Stop it.
Moral: dont chuck roo heads on beach ya boneheads. They make good soup....
50%pork 40%beef 10% roo best salamis
Do we REALLY need the 'rambo' approach to this issue??
One doesn't have to be a 'greenie' to find this act offensive.
It certainly isn't as bad as 15 luderick I saw, gasping for breath on the rocks, with their side fillets removed. (Under Fisheries law, that is an offence).
Let's get things into perspective.
The big difference is the roo's were obviously quite dead and speculation into the manner of death is just plain pointless.
While your observation of the blackfish highlights an obvious act of abject cruelty and makes me sick to the guts to think that someone would think that's acceptable behavior.
Scott
I agree absolutely, Scott! You are quite right... the deaths of the roos will probably remain a mystery. However, (and maybe I'm from a different school), but to see the roo heads, would have made me just as sick as the 'still alive' luderick carcasses.
One could ague til the cows come home, that fish do or don't feel pain. Whatever the case, 'it's not a good look' for the image of recreational fishers.
Speaking of roo meat I purchased a couple of cryovac'd roo mini roasts at woolies for about $8 a kilo (2 roasts for about $10) I rubbed them in sharwoods tandoori sauce and roasted them slowly in tha oven...... O.M.G sensational... I served them up at an indian themed dinner party I put on for some friends and they were the highlight. Only complaint was they were a bit grissley so when carving I had to remove the grissle. Everybody had 2nds and the tandoori aroma kept the roo odour at bay..................... whatever yoooouuu dooooo just give it a gooooo...
Sounds good Shaman, I dont mind the old roo meat at all, I occasionally throw some on the BBQ when we have freinds over, I usually buy the roo fillets and make kababs, and buy the roo snags (kanga bangas) and I usually throw some goat chops on aswell, the goat is beutifull in mint & rosemary marinade. But to the point just beacause the roo heads where found by a boat ramp doesnt mean that fisherman are responsible.
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