Shall I interpret this as a sign that things getting out of hand down under?

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Australia May Say Goodbye to Cowboy Hats...?

Thanks for the link Tex I live in a country town no Jack or Jill will ever wear a helmet on a horse nor a bike last Sunday It was the hottest day for November a mere 42 deg the air was that hot that you felt the heat of it instead of the wind force. Farm people still work in that climate unlike these city people that stop work when It hits 39 deg . Of course they can bring in all the rules and regulations most country people will just laugh at it

I hear ya. Cowboys wear cowboy hats for a reason. Much the same as a sailors wear watch caps and soldiers wear boonie hats. Some hats have certain uses...cowboys hat are quite adept at what they do: keeping the sun off your head and shoulders and out of your eyes. I doubt seriously that any helmet will replace the good ole cowboy hat anytime soon either. Could you imagine wearing a plastic bucket on your head when the sun is soo hot that the pavement begins to crack? No thanks...

Besides, I can just imagine the ruckus this kind of thing could cause in the US if the powers that be tried to dictate what hats our ranchers will wear. I know several cowboys that still work cattle from horses, with ropes and pistols just like in the movies. Someone's going to tell them they can't wear their Stetson to work? Yeah, right. And I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you!

I dread the day when each & everyone of us has to get an enviornmental impact study approved by the government before you can fart!

I got a block of dirt that has 14 acres that natural resources has declared an endangered habitat. Stuff me, it's a bloody fire hazzard that will burn me out if it ever catches light. I can't clear, weed or even remove dead wood from it. The punch line is that some little turd chose that bit of my block from a friggin satelite photo.

How the hell he could make that assessment without even coming out for a look at ground zero, I will never know!

Then I gets a notification that I must remove vermin from it. How am I supposed to chase vermin through a fallen timber and weed infested piece of shit?

Footnote: It makes a good backstop for my private rifle range! He! he!

BAW, same thing happened to a friend of mine who lives on 5 acres in Western Sydney - his front yard was 'classified', and he can't touch it - he had to fence it off (his expense) and let it be - no tidying up, clearing, etc....

Trouble is, now his local council is trying to fine him for having a 'unslightly and hazardous' patch in a suburban area.

No worries, just fix that pesky stock fence that you've been meaning to look at with your angle grinder on one of those 40C+ days.

Oh, and make sure it's blowing about 30knots AWAY from your house when you do it.....wooops!



Seriously though, I've got a registered Aboriginal archeological site on my block, no joking.

Same deal, can't touch it and if I find artefacts, bones etc I have to let the Aboriginal council know about it.

Funny, haven't found anything there yet......

"Then I gets a notification that I must remove vermin from it. How am I supposed to chase vermin through a fallen timber and weed infested piece of shit?"

You want to start hassling them about duty of care etc.Loaded guns and fallen logs that they told you to leave etc.Tell them about the "chain of responsibility" going all the way to them when you trip over. Stick it into the shiney bums.

I hope you are using this to drive the price down a little or have you settled?

BAW, please have one of your mates bring out a video camera when you go chasing after the little pest on your place. I think there would be more than a few who would like to see this event for themselves. With you leaping over the tangles, deadwood, brush and any other obsticales laying about. "Rooster Cogburn Down Under" could be a working title for this epic.

That or take up smoking for one very windy day (away from the house)oops.

Hog Killer