• Piecemakers@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I mean, they lost to emus last time and they brought gatling guns to that fight. Now, they’re handing out plastic pipes against dingos? How is that “learning from past mistakes”? 🤦🏼‍♂️

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        1 year ago

        How is that “learning from past mistakes”?

        They learnt that unloading a machine gun at long range at a bunch of birds that at run at 45k was a useless idea.

        So the swap to a melee weapon load out (however crap it is) could be seen as learning from past mistakes.

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          1 year ago

          But it’s such a bad weapon. A cardboard tube might be the only thing worse. A child with a fork can do more damage than PVC pipe.

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            1 year ago

            If you can’t hit a dingo on the nose hard enough to make it fuck off with a short length of PVC, you would likely end up hurting yourself trying to wield anything sharp and pointy.

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                1 year ago

                Although isn’t it less to hurt them and more to deter them? You want them to leave you alone, not potentially injured badly to end up suffering or dead in the wild.

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                  I think this is a response to the woman jogging that was nearly killed by 4 dingos. I doubt a PVC pipe would help against 4 dingos let alone one. An attacking dog is hard to fight off so I would imagine a dingo is no easier.

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                    1 year ago

                    Yeah, but dingoes are classified as Vulnerable, which is one step above Endangered. They might not want to risk people hurting them when the goal is to get them to leave you alone or hold them off until help arrives.