On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:55:00 -0500, Rodney Long
typed furiously:

David Simpson wrote:


Don't try that in Australia. All snakes are protected here.

I understand that the animals have more rights than people down there,
no law against a snake or crock, killing a man, or even a small child.

We do enact a death penalty if needed. Relocation usually does the
trick.

How many people a year down there die to snakes, and crocks ?

Snakes? About one every few years in spite of the fact that we have
the deadliest species on the planet and the greatest number of
venomous species.

Crocs? Maybe one or two a year. Some people are stupid enough to swim,
or play, where the croc can get at them. Crocs are extremely fast on
land ... for a very short distance.

Every snake in the world is not worth the life of one of my grand children.

So! Keep the kids away and keep them in boots. The snakes feel the
vibrations and depart for parts unknown at great speed.

I also understand that a gang of thugs can beat you to death, or rape
your daughter, and they won't let you have a gun to protect yourself, or
her, if you do have one and use it to save your life, they put you in jail.

Never needed a gun even though I can shoot with reasonable accuracy.
My average was over 90% when I was shooting,

I know only _one_ person who was raped and another who was subjected
to an attempted home invasion. Those sorts of crimes are rare enough
to merit front page stories when they do occur and they occur weeks
apart. Unlike the US, where they merely report how many murders
occurred that day, we can go for weeks between murders, mainly because
of the lack of the coward's weapon, a gun.

Gangs of thugs, thankfully, are rare and mostly controlled by the
police. Comes from having a vibrant economy and a good social security
system, although the latter does drive up taxes.

No thanks, I'll stay here, you can have all those poisonous snakes in
your yards, and let them bite your kids, instead of killing them before
it happens.

And I'll stay here and not be worried that I'm going to be killed by a
stray bullet falling out of the clear blue sky or that my front door
is going to be kicked in by some stranger who wants money for his drug
dependency.

Do you protect your spiders as well ? WHy not ? How about roaches,
flies, ants, and mosquitos

Some spiders, yes. It depends on how rare they are and if they are
native to Australia. I don't know of anyone who has been prosecuted
for killing a spider though. That would make the front page here.
--
Regards
David Simpson
"Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him
without an erection, make him a sandwich."
- Someone on soc.sexuality.general