Boy caught driving armed and towing dead donkey

He is only doing what everyone else up there have doing since year dot .
The audacity of the NT police to expect any vehicle in those conditions to be roadworthy is a farce.
What they forget is that these so called roads roads cut through both traditional lands and leasehold pastoral leases and on the most part are more bulldust than formed roads so how can they expect anyone to comply with the bureaucratic imagination that is being pumped out of Darwin.

This story just reminds me of the stories my great grandfather used to tell, about the days when kids grew up fast. The days when kids would shoe their own horses defore riding 20 miles to school, or even my own dad, 15 years old driving an overloaded semi trailer along the main "highway" to get the neighbor's bulldozer to the next property which was just as far. Kid probably killed the donkey to feed his dogs.

Another familial reference if I may, my uncle was a small town cop back in the day and this sounds cor all the world lime one of those anecdotal dinner table stories he'd tell, not only about someone he dealt with, but also something he did himself as a kid.

It warms my heart to know there are still kids out there growing up this way and not glued to a computer screen or a gaming console for the duration. Or sniffing glue for that matter.

high rises on the range wrote:

This story just reminds me of the stories my great grandfather used to tell, about the days when kids grew up fast. The days when kids would shoe their own horses defore riding 20 miles to school, or even my own dad, 15 years old driving an overloaded semi trailer along the main "highway" to get the neighbor's bulldozer to the next property which was just as far. Kid probably killed the donkey to feed his dogs.
Another familial reference if I may, my uncle was a small town cop back in the day and this sounds cor all the world lime one of those anecdotal dinner table stories he'd tell, not only about someone he dealt with, but also something he did himself as a kid.
It warms my heart to know there are still kids out there growing up this way and not glued to a computer screen or a gaming console for the duration. Or sniffing glue for that matter.

Great post. I grew up without computers, cell phones, video games, and to this day I think about all of the great times I had as a kid just walking around the streets, playing sports, hiking in the mountains, riding my bike around with all of my friends, etc. I feel sorry for kids nowadays that don't do any of that stuff.

Pool Shark wrote:

<quoted text>Great post. I grew up without computers, cell phones, video games, and to this day I think about all of the great times I had as a kid just walking around the streets, playing sports, hiking in the mountains, riding my bike around with all of my friends, etc. I feel sorry for kids nowadays that don't do any of that stuff.

Thanks Pool Shark. You sound like one of the good guys who wasn't taught to sit down to pee.

high rises on the range wrote:

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Thanks Pool Shark. You sound like one of the good guys who wasn't taught to sit down to pee.

For sure. I give out Man Card Violations here on Topix and in my real (real?) life. People ask me why, and I tell them that I'm trying to stop the "pussification of American men."

Pool Shark wrote:

<quoted text>For sure. I give out Man Card Violations here on Topix and in my real (real?) life. People ask me why, and I tell them that I'm trying to stop the "pussification of American men."

Too late!

Oracle wrote:

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Too late!

I know. It's like standing at the bottom of a mountain trying to stop an avalanche of snow.

high rises on the range wrote:

This story just reminds me of the stories my great grandfather used to tell, about the days when kids grew up fast. The days when kids would shoe their own horses defore riding 20 miles to school, or even my own dad, 15 years old driving an overloaded semi trailer along the main "highway" to get the neighbor's bulldozer to the next property which was just as far. Kid probably killed the donkey to feed his dogs.
Another familial reference if I may, my uncle was a small town cop back in the day and this sounds cor all the world lime one of those anecdotal dinner table stories he'd tell, not only about someone he dealt with, but also something he did himself as a kid.
It warms my heart to know there are still kids out there growing up this way and not glued to a computer screen or a gaming console for the duration. Or sniffing glue for that matter.

The bush kids of Australia have to grow up fast or they get left behind.
I knew a man who was a man at 12 years of age when he ran stock camps in the NT with up to 15 men to manage

Neville Thompson wrote:

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The bush kids of Australia have to grow up fast or they get left behind.
I knew a man who was a man at 12 years of age when he ran stock camps in the NT with up to 15 men to manage

Now that would test your masculinity, taking orders from a 12 year old.. lol

high rises on the range wrote:

<quoted text> Now that would test your masculinity, taking orders from a 12 year old.. lol

In his day it would mainly blackfella stockmen

So the bogans are alive and kicking, eh? Was the donkey alive when he began towing it? What is the boy's future?

certainly swimming around in sewer is more fun than surfing online for most old farts here

old fart wrote:

certainly swimming around in sewer is more fun than surfing online for most old farts here

try plenty of fish.com

Neo wrote:

So the bogans are alive and kicking, eh? Was the donkey alive when he began towing it? What is the boy's future?

Seeing he had firearms I don't think the donkey would have been towed alive.
His father is the one who will be dragged over the coals by the insane N.T. government bureaucracy

Neo wrote:

So the bogans are alive and kicking, eh? Was the donkey alive when he began towing it? What is the boy's future?

I doubt you know what a bogan is, though you yourself are probably closer to the mark than the boy in this story.

high rises on the range wrote:

<quoted text>I doubt you know what a bogan is, though you yourself are probably closer to the mark than the boy in this story.

Quite true

If the boy was aboriginal and towing a dead dugong it would have been okay.
The police wouldn't be game to touch him.

Philip wrote:

If the boy was aboriginal and towing a dead dugong it would have been okay.
The police wouldn't be game to touch him.

Especially in Central Australia,the tide doesn't come in that far

Neville Thompson wrote:

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Seeing he had firearms I don't think the donkey would have been towed alive.
His father is the one who will be dragged over the coals by the insane N.T. government bureaucracy

Why do you call the NT govt insane?

Neo wrote:

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Why do you call the NT govt insane?

Because of their incompetent governance as seen here and when they destroyed the buffalo industry and when they allowed the train line to cut through pastoralists properties and separate their stock from their watering points and their management of aboriginal affairs that led to Federal government take over and their over bearing bureaucracy that thinks more of itself than it does of the people it so represents