Camels Gone Wild

The small central Australian community of Docker River is experiencing a Camelpocalypse. Over 6,000 feral camels are destroying the town. They've overrun the airport (making emergency medical service impossible), ruined the water infrastructure, tainted drinking water, and left many residents afraid to leave home for fear of being trampled. NT Local Government Minister Rob Knight said, "They're actually coming up to the houses taking water off the overflow from the rooftop air-conditioning. This is a very critical situation out there, it's very unusual and it needs urgent action.'' At least the camels aren't encouraging kids to smoke like they do here in the US.

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Camels?

[rmushkatblat]

Australia has camels?

Re:Camels?

[Ocker3]

They were imported to replace horses during Australia's settlement, much of the centre of Australia is very dry and much better suited to camels than horses. In one famous long distance race, a camel was beaten by a horse to the finish line, at which time the horse gave up and died. The camel and it's rider turned around and went back to the start line. We actually export live camels to the middle east, as we have lots of strong wild camels and there are also plans to start slaughtering them and selling them to the middle east as meat. Camel numbers in Australia are apparently growing at an exponential rate.