O.T. Targan misbehaving...AGAIN

[kato13]

im thinking go to australia, weaponise the wildlife, and take over the world

Emu_War

Summarizing the culls, ornithologist Dominic Serventy commented:
"The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.[11]

On 8 November, representatives in the Australian House of Representatives discussed the operation.[6] Following the negative coverage of the events in the local media,[12] which included claims that "only a few" emus had died,[4] Pearce withdrew the military personnel and the guns on 8 November.[4][6][13][14]

After the withdrawal, Major Meredith compared the emus to Zulus, and commented on the striking maneuverability of the emus, even while badly wounded.
"If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world...They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop.[15]"

[Targan]

That emu cull happened in the Wheatbelt a few hundreds kilometres from where I live. Emus may be tough but they're also annoyingly stupid creatures. When startled they will always run in the direction with the least resistance, so if you startle one on a road with your car they just run down the road ahead of your car for miles and miles.

[Legbreaker]

im thinking go to australia, weaponise the wildlife, and take over the world.

Most of the wildlife already is weaponised. Take the multitude of deadly poisonous snakes and spiders, the kangaroo as previously mentioned, Tasmanian devil with teeth nasty enough to shred flesh in a heartbeat (not to mention their rather substandard hygiene - they eat a LOT of roadkill), and of course we just can't go past the terror of the forest, the blood thirsty drop bears.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear

http://www.dropbearaware.com/

http://www.google.com.au/urlsa=t&rct=j&q=&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-WD_Nh_rboQ&ei=QMiNUOWUDuqiiAek74C4Bw&usg=AFQjCNEYoyubluEhRTbpHilxYhxeF_I1mw

[bobcat]

imagine an army of kangaroo's with MP5's sweeping through the kremlin though.

[Targan]

Well today I'm allowed to misbehave because it's Halloween which is also MY BIRTHDAY! Yay!

[mikeo80]

Well today I'm allowed to misbehave because it's Halloween which is also MY BIRTHDAY! Yay!

Happy Birth Day to Targan!!

so to commorate the occasion......

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=EqolSvoWNck

My $0.02

Mike

[Targan]

Today was also the anniversary of the famous charge of the Australian Light Horsemen at Beersheba, Palestine in 1917: Battle of Beersheba (1917)

We Australians like to refer to it as history's last great cavalry charge but the Light Horse Regiments were really mounted infantry. Still, it must have scared the hell out of the Ottoman Turks, seeing hundreds of Aussie horsemen charging at them with their foot-long bayonets in their hands like swords.

[headquarters]

how do they taste

That emu cull happened in the Wheatbelt a few hundreds kilometres from where I live. Emus may be tough but they're also annoyingly stupid creatures. When startled they will always run in the direction with the least resistance, so if you startle one on a road with your car they just run down the road ahead of your car for miles and miles.

So you could overtake it and whack it with a showel from the pick up window

happy birthday!

[Jason Weiser]

Today was also the anniversary of the famous charge of the Australian Light Horsemen at Beersheba, Palestine in 1917: Battle of Beersheba (1917)

We Australians like to refer to it as history's last great cavalry charge but the Light Horse Regiments were really mounted infantry. Still, it must have scared the hell out of the Ottoman Turks, seeing hundreds of Aussie horsemen charging at them with their foot-long bayonets in their hands like swords.

Ahem...with all due respect to the Light Horse, but these fellas might disagree...vehemently.

http://www.uscavalry.org/USCA-LastChargePrint.pdf

[Targan]

Ahem...with all due respect to the Light Horse, but these fellas might disagree...vehemently.

Well that was bound to happen, wasn't it

Before making any sweeping statement on this board one (such as myself) would do well to at least make a cursory web search. Thanks for schooling me, Jason.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

And further to that, the Italians and the Poles both have a claim to cavalry charges later in WW2 although the Poles were fighting for the USSR and so this charge doesn't appear to be celebrated in Poland today.

Following is from Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_(warfare)

Battle of Bataan (January 16, 1942): US 26th Cavalry Regiment makes a mounted pistol charge against Japanese positions, the last mounted charge in battle by conventional United States troops.

Eastern Front, World War II, (August 24, 1942): The last cavalry charge against a regular enemy army of Italian history happened in Izbu!enskij. It was mounted against a Soviet artillery position along the River Don by 700 men of the Italian 3rd 'Savoia' Cavalry Regiment. This is often reported as "the last successful cavalry charge in history".
Article about this charge can be found here http://www.history.com/news/the-last...e-70-years-ago

Battle of Poloj (October 17, 1942): The last charge of an Italian horse regiment during WWII. It was executed in Yugoslavia by the 14th Light Cavalry Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria" versus Communist partisans.

Battle of Borujsko (Schnfeld in German) was the last charge of the Polish 1st Cavalry Brigade just before the end of WWII. On March 1, 1945, it attacked the German lines in support of Soviet Forces. The charge was successful.

So we Aussies might want to claim the last horse charge in history but it definitely aint ours to claim - March 1945, the Poles have it!

[bobcat]

and back on topic how much trouble are targan and his pet emu actually capable of getting into

[Legbreaker]

Targan can probably get into plenty of trouble all on his own, after all, if emu's are smart enough to be elected mayor of a town...
Yes, it actually happened way back in the early 80's (can't for the life of me remember which town it was though).

Edit: It was Camooweal in Queensland (trust the Queenslanders to elect an emu - these are people who don't want daylight saving because they're afraid the extra hour of sunshine will fade their curtains!)
Thanks go to my mother and her amazing memory (30 years after visiting the place).