Queensland Shooting
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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!
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@bayimports said in Queensland Shooting:
F**K 110km lol, Is it just parts of NT, or does Qld also have some roads with no speed limit?
there are a couple of spots. the really good part south of Gympie is 110. i think there is a bit around Rocky as well.
of course, it's very empty out there, so...
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@antipodean said in Queensland Shooting:
I'd say after the last few years there'd be more than ever.
Yup, one of my ex RAF buddies did her thesis on right wing extremism, and works in that field now (she's in Oz). The shit and sheer numbers of both out there theories and out there people is multiplying rapidly. And you can't argue against it, because everything is a conspiracy, like flat earthers, but with guns
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@Machpants said in Queensland Shooting:
@antipodean said in Queensland Shooting:
I'd say after the last few years there'd be more than ever.
Yup, one of my ex RAF buddies did her thesis on right wing extremism, and works in that field now (she's in Oz). The shit and sheer numbers of both out there theories and out there people is multiplying rapidly. And you can't argue against it, because everything is a conspiracy, like flat earthers, but with guns
man, the double-whammy of government responses to Covid straight in to tough household economic times has broken a lot of people.
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Yesterday, and so far today, we have a steady stream of people coming into the station bearing flowers, chocolates and hugs. Many are crying. I have never seen a response from the public like this.
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@Crazy-Horse I think the majority of the public really, really appreciate the job you guys do to keep people safe, so to see something like this will affect a lot of people even if they don't have any direct connection to the police officers. Hope you and your colleagues are holding up OK, absolutely awful situation all round.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Queensland Shooting:
Yesterday, and so far today, we have a steady stream of people coming into the station bearing flowers, chocolates and hugs. Many are crying. I have never seen a response from the public like this.
ive always felt whilst there may be individual cops out there who are less than perfect....the majority cops are doing a job the vast majority of us dont want to do and probably doing a good job, that combined with the fact this seems to be a particularly egregious crime means most people really feel for you and your colleagues
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It's been good seeing the reaction from the public, we do forget sometimes that people do appreciate what we do.
Today has probably been a bit sadder because we are starting to hear details that haven't been released. They are chilling.
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@MN5 said in Queensland Shooting:
We whinge about long drives in NZ ( justifiably in some cases, our roads are pretty shit ) but we ain’t got shit on Australia.
The condition of the roads here is a joke.
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@bayimports said in Queensland Shooting:
F**K 110km lol, Is it just parts of NT, or does Qld also have some roads with no speed limit?
NT used to have no speed limit on the highway. Think they've now adopted 130.
As Mariner says the motorway from Gympie through the Sunny Coast is 110.
IIRC there's a section south(?) of Macaky that's also 110. And that's only 2-lane.
