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Australian government hands out PVC pipe for tourists to beat off dingo attacks. "Dingo sticks"

www.watoday.com.au K'gari tourists given sticks after dingo attack

Tourists on K'gari have been given plastic poles to help them fend off dingo attacks.

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Let's not go to Australia. 'Tis a silly place.
- I mean, they lost to emus last time and they brought gatling guns to that fight. Now, they're handing out plastic pipes against dingos? How is that "learning from past mistakes"? 🤦🏼‍♂️
  
  How is that “learning from past mistakes”?
  
  They learnt that unloading a machine gun at long range at a bunch of birds that at run at 45k was a useless idea.
  
  So the swap to a melee weapon load out (however crap it is) could be seen as learning from past mistakes.
  
  Emus are fierce fighters tho! Can close the gap quickly
  
  We also lost at biological warfare against rabbits, we aren't good at this stuff
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While a park ranger might well be employed by the federal government... calling a park ranger "the Australian government" is a bit much.
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It’s called a dingo-bye-bye-bat.
You could put a rock or something in there and use compressed fluid to propel the projectile at the dangerous animal. Maybe look into inexpensive gas canisters or chemicals that expand rapidly when struck and prepare individual containers with the rocks so you can swap them out quickly after use. Add on some small protrusions at the ends to help with getting the pipe lined up with the thing you want to hit too.

I think this idea could really catch on, will have to see whether there's anything like that on the market already.
- We don't want to kill the dingoes, we just want to give them a little bang on the noggin so they don't maul our wives or eat our babies

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