Queensland Shooting
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thats bloody horrible, rather than have the common sense to tell his wife he was leaving her....he just disappears and then freaks out "the government" is following him or coming to get him and guns them down
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Lived and was a principal up here
Because of course he did.
Articles in the local paper remind of that great Billy Connelly bit about how people describe serial killers when it comes out, how they are never life of the party "any body want to come and see my daggers?"
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@NTA said in Queensland Shooting:
Nothing like a bit of common law / independent thinker to get the crazies moist. Ice it with a layer of "Port Arthur False Flag" rubbish and it is a perfect storm.
As soon as someone tells me they think Port Arthur is a conspiracy, I immediately enquire if they have access to firearms.
I mentioned it earlier but no one would be that surprised that some blockies from Darling Downs ended up doing this.
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@antipodean said in Queensland Shooting:
someone tells me they think Port Arthur is a conspiracy
People have actually said that to you?
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@booboo said in Queensland Shooting:
@antipodean said in Queensland Shooting:
someone tells me they think Port Arthur is a conspiracy
People have actually said that to you?
Yes. When I suspect someone is batshit insane, I tend to encourage them to voice their thoughts to see just how deep the rabbit warren runs. They're always too pleased to find a person who they think shares the same beliefs and it's remarkably easy to do. Red tape -> government intervention / intrusion -> loss of liberty. All perfectly sane topics at the surface with legitimate examples. Then have a look under the surface to see how fast that duck is paddling.
I'd say after the last few years there'd be more than ever.
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@antipodean said in Queensland Shooting:
@mariner4life said in Queensland Shooting:
There is a real fucking weird story to be told here.
It's out near Chinchilla. Add mental health, access to firearms, probable meth use and a desire to be isolated. No one out that way is normal.
Yep some weird survivalists types out that way and a large area for drug manufacture.
Large isolated Bush with little farms.
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@dogmeat said in Queensland Shooting:
@Chris said in Queensland Shooting:
Not a place I like stopping at, straight through for me.
You've just described most of Oz
realist shit ever
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@dogmeat said in Queensland Shooting:
@Chris said in Queensland Shooting:
Not a place I like stopping at, straight through for me.
You've just described most of Oz
Yeah, true unfortunately - we drove Darwin to Broome, and there were a shit-ton of places that you really didn't want to stop at. I think the issue is the proper isolation - in NZ you're never really that far from anywhere, but some of these places you are just cut off from the world in many ways.
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@voodoo said in Queensland Shooting:
@dogmeat said in Queensland Shooting:
@Chris said in Queensland Shooting:
Not a place I like stopping at, straight through for me.
You've just described most of Oz
Yeah, true unfortunately - we drove Darwin to Broome, and there were a shit-ton of places that you really didn't want to stop at. I think the issue is the proper isolation - in NZ you're never really that far from anywhere, but some of these places you are just cut off from the world in many ways.
The sheer size of Australia when you look at it on a map is eye opening.
When you consider the country has a population of 25 mill and ( off the top of my head ) about 10 of those live in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane that’s A LOT of space for ferals to manufacture drugs and become lunatics in the extreme heat and isolation.
It’s a wonder this doesn’t happen so much more often, thankfully it doesn’t.
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out that way it actually makes me wonder if this was more of a documentary than a horror movie
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@MN5 said in Queensland Shooting:
@voodoo said in Queensland Shooting:
@dogmeat said in Queensland Shooting:
@Chris said in Queensland Shooting:
Not a place I like stopping at, straight through for me.
You've just described most of Oz
Yeah, true unfortunately - we drove Darwin to Broome, and there were a shit-ton of places that you really didn't want to stop at. I think the issue is the proper isolation - in NZ you're never really that far from anywhere, but some of these places you are just cut off from the world in many ways.
The sheer size of Australia when you look at it on a map is eye opening.
When you consider the country has a population of 25 mill and ( off the top of my head ) about 10 of those live in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane that’s A LOT of space for ferals to manufacture drugs and become lunatics in the extreme heat and isolation.
It’s a wonder this doesn’t happen so much more often, thankfully it doesn’t.
if you take the 5 major capitals that's more like 16 million.
i've driven to Brisbane far too often. On the 2,000km journey there is an enormous amount of nothing, with a regional city of 150k or so people every 400km
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@mariner4life said in Queensland Shooting:
@MN5 said in Queensland Shooting:
@voodoo said in Queensland Shooting:
@dogmeat said in Queensland Shooting:
@Chris said in Queensland Shooting:
Not a place I like stopping at, straight through for me.
You've just described most of Oz
Yeah, true unfortunately - we drove Darwin to Broome, and there were a shit-ton of places that you really didn't want to stop at. I think the issue is the proper isolation - in NZ you're never really that far from anywhere, but some of these places you are just cut off from the world in many ways.
The sheer size of Australia when you look at it on a map is eye opening.
When you consider the country has a population of 25 mill and ( off the top of my head ) about 10 of those live in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane that’s A LOT of space for ferals to manufacture drugs and become lunatics in the extreme heat and isolation.
It’s a wonder this doesn’t happen so much more often, thankfully it doesn’t.
if you take the 5 major capitals that's more like 16 million.
i've driven to Brisbane far too often. On the 2,000km journey there is an enormous amount of nothing, with a regional city of 150k or so people every 400km
Reinforcing my point even more.
We whinge about long drives in NZ ( justifiably in some cases, our roads are pretty shit ) but we ain’t got shit on Australia.
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@MN5 said in Queensland Shooting:
our roads are pretty shit
lol State Highway 1 is a fucking race track compared to the vast majority of the Bruce Highway (supposedly also highway 1). Which is a 2 lane goat track for about 1,500kms of Qld.
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@mariner4life said in Queensland Shooting:
State Highway 1 is a fucking race track
def race track, just not the quality of one, well not really south of Hamilton or North of Auckland anyway...
I drove up State Highway 15, that is the back and beyond, some of the derelict houses, are still lived in, def has a feel of the HIlls have eyes and wouldnt want to break down in many spots along there, and you feel isolated, but not Aussie isolated!
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@taniwharugby said in Queensland Shooting:
@mariner4life said in Queensland Shooting:
State Highway 1 is a fucking race track
def race track, just not the quality of one, well not really south of Hamilton or North of Auckland...
i did say in comparison
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@taniwharugby said in Queensland Shooting:
@mariner4life said in Queensland Shooting:
State Highway 1 is a fucking race track
def race track, just not the quality of one, well not really south of Hamilton or North of Auckland...
It is nice being able to go 110km though !
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F**K 110km lol, Is it just parts of NT, or does Qld also have some roads with no speed limit?
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@mariner4life I mean our drivers treat SH1 like a race track, but the road quality is pretty shit outside Auckland/Hamilton!
