If you didn't think Australia was a strange country, perhaps you read up on their camels. AFP helps, reporting that some 6000 wild camels have invaded the community of Docker River in search of water.
If the article is missing one thing it's a photo from the area. Man what a missed opportunity, the stock footage camel is a shame.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091125/wl_asia_afp/australiawildlifedroughtcamels
The first reaction of the locals has been to keep the kids inside as they naturally want to go out and play with the camels. Everyone can guess the second step, right? Well at least part of it, first they are going to herd the camels outside of the inhabited area with helicopters and only then shoot them.
That's to be expected I suppose. According to the article there are about a million wild camels in Australia and they are a pest - they spread disease and push native species back as they have very few predators.
Rabbits? Everyone has rabbits, call again when you get invaded by camels.
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