11.28.07 RUGBY PLAYERS LOVE ENDANGERED ANIMALS
The quokka is an Australian marsupial, similar to a kangaroo but closer in size to a house cat. According to Wikipedia, it's listed as a "vulnerable" species and is protected by law.
Quokkas have no fear of humans and it is common for them to hop up close enough to humans to be petted, particularly on Rottnest Island. It is however illegal to handle the animals in any way.
It's funny that Wiki mentions Rottnest Island, because rugby club Western Force went boozing there recently, and, well, let's just say they're not Greenpeace.
At least four players terrorized quokkas for more than an hour after a drinking session on Rottnest Island near Perth, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today, citing a Sydney resident who was visiting the island… One player mimicked outstretched, diving tries to trap quokkas in a milk crate. Another picked up a quokka by the tail, swung it above his head and then flung it hammer-throw style across the grass.
Well, I never! For shame. I'd expect this kind of behavior from drunken Aussie rugby players, but never… drunken… Aussie. Oh. Um, never mind.
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RUGBY PLAYERS LOVE ENDANGERED ANIMALS
One player mimicked outstretched, diving tries to trap quokkas in a milk crate. Another picked up a quokka by the tail, swung it above his head and then flung it hammer-throw style across the grass.
Sounds like a harmless game of Quidditch.
As a man who's spent time on an Aussie rugby team, I can report personally hearing emu hunting stories that involved shooting to wound in order to beat the bird to death with golf clubs.
It's not quite Vick kicking the puppy, but it gets a smile.
Not shared: the stories my Marines had from Australia, when they laid waste to wallabies with the tank's coaxial machine gun.
Emos or Emus? Either way sounds like a pile of fun 12 ft. high.
They have cattle grills on the cars for the kangaroos they intentionally run down over there. Although if I was a nation tucked nicely in between a barren wasteland of poisonous snakes, dingos and scorpions, and on the other side, great whites, I'd have a little contempt for nature as well.
I thought that you were a bottom Lance?
Ruggers in Ireland only do bad things to their women, who are a lot more beastly than any wallaby or quokka. They actually just fuck the sheep now that I think about it, which is nicer than trapping… oh, nevermind.
@Matt
Would wallabies be considered a "soft" target?
Another picked up a quokka by the tail, swung it above his head and then flung it hammer-throw style across the grass.
Counter-clockwise, of course.
Lance, you'd think they'd use cricket clubs instead.
Rottnest is also a the nickname of paris Hiltons vagina.
Thank you (crickets chirping)
Yeah, but I'm a Power Bottom.
Quokka? That's a funny name. I'd have called it a chazzwazzer.
So basically what I am hearing from all y'all is that its cool to go to Australia and blow shit up and generally terrorize the hell out of things? Sign me up!
Western Force is actually from South Africa.
Uhhm… ironic then that South African rugby players are portrayed in the pic…
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