Missing in the outback.
Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 22:51
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Footloose
Some of these I didn't know about.
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Reply By: Member - Jeff H (QLD) - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:00
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:00
Footyl, MOST of those I was unaware of.
I stop. Jeff.
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Reply By: Willem - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:04
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:04
Its them aliens at work again
There are some things in life that are just too mysterious.
People vanish as if the earth has swallowed them.
It must be very traumatic for the families of these missing persons.
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:22
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:22
Like most cases, the families and friends and even the police investigating would all suffer. Not to mention the person themselves.
Some of these stories sort themselves out later on and some don't.
The families would go through h*ll.
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Follow Up By: BenSpoon - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 15:17
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 15:17
funny you mention that willem- have you come across the
limestone caves and catacomes on the nullabor before? They are pretty
well known for swallowing people, and are most times never found either.
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 20:32
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 20:32
Yeah Ben
There are some serious sinkholes on the track to
Israelite Bay from
Caiguna.
What about all the holes at Cooper Pedy?
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Reply By: Des Lexic - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:07
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:07
They are all over at Wolfe Creek. I heard they were shooting a movie there.
Sorry guys, just my sad sense of humour
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Follow Up By: Willem - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:11
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:11
Yes, you are a sad case.....LOL
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:15
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:15
That is why they cant find them they said they were at wolfe creek but actually they were in the
Flinders ranges
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Reply By: Footloose - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:12
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:12
It's a big country. I remember reading that in a ten year period, a number of people had gone missing between Three ways and Mt Isa. They then charged a guy who was already in jail with a numeber of those disappearances.
I rekkon there are a few people I wouldn't like to meet in remote locations.
I mean I only LOOK scary. I'm really a pussycat...like the one in Willems photo LOL
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Reply By: Gramps (NSW) - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:15
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:15
Hmmm ... are there multiple Attack Creeks in NT ?
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Follow Up By: Willem - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:20
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:20
No don't think so
Attack Creek is north of Three Ways on the Stuart Hwy
Cheer
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Follow Up By: Willem - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:21
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:21
No don't think so
Attack Creek is north of Three Ways on the Stuart Hwy
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:25
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:25
It's worse than we thought then. One disappearance was around Attack Ck "near Alice Springs" and another was at
Attack Creek "80km North of Alice Springs" !!!!
That means a lot of country (and it's erstwhile inhabitants) have disappeared LOLOL
Thanks Willem. That's the one I found on my maps
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:26
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:26
I doubt that the journo even looked at a map. He's in
Sydney, just north of
Melbourne.
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:35
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:35
Being serious now, that is scary stuff Footy. Even scarier is that far more people disappear from our main cities/towns each and every year. That makes for a lot of relatives, friends and dear ones with a gap in their lives.
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:42
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:42
Yes. And sadly it's a gap that will always be with them.
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Reply By: Footloose - Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:30
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 at 23:30
Pinched from one of my books, "Have a Nice Day", fictional story about a mad killer in the outback.
From time to time, incidents do happen in the bush. People do get lost, and occasionally murdered.
Many see the outback as a threatening and dangerous place to be. Often these people live in cities, where they are far more likely to meet far more violence than anything that happens in remote areas. But precisely because they are remote areas, such incidents are usually widely reported.
The truth is that most people are far safer in the bush than they are in their own homes. They are certainly much safer than on the roads.
Every year thousands of people travel through some of the most remote country that Australia has to offer, without incident.
Sadly, some also meet with disaster, often through lack of planning and preparation.
Whilst the Australian bush is a wonderful place to be, visitors need to use their common sense and realize that help is often a long way away. A medical emergency or a mechanical breakdown can be just as devastating as any mad killer.
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Follow Up By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 00:14
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 00:14
Sorry Footy ,
Couldn't help myself , My Fav saying.
7P's - Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents bleep Poor Performance.
Glenn.
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:20
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:20
SUICIDE......
The untalked about killer. Plenty of
young men walked off into the bush around Kal to end there life. Most are found quickly some not for many years sparking posters and rewards etc
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:26
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:26
Very good point,
spot on. I also wonder how many car single vehicle accidents are the same thing.
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:31
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:31
Now that I come to think, it wasn't unknown for women in the bush where their husband was away a fair bit to commit suicide. They called it being *bush happy" or something. Thank goodness some change has been for the better. I'd imagine it would be far less common these days with phones, internet and TV.
But it's an epidemic in our
young men.
I think I read recently that more people in Oz die of suicide than of car accidents, a statistic I find hard to come to terms with.
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Follow Up By: Member - Jeff H (QLD) - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:07
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:07
Footyl, read your post, (and responded), before I'd heard the news.
Foot in mouth again. So what can I say?
We lost a dog once, (details don't matter.) I followed utes with dogs in the back for a couple of years.
I can't begin to imagine the trauma being suffered by the loved ones of those who have 'vanished'.
. Jeff.
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Reply By: Member - Barry M (NSW) - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:35
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:35
Yesterdays
Sydney Tele had a very small report on two aboriginal men dying
300k east of
Kalgoorlie. Troopie & one chap found together, no tyres left on rear & one front flat, the other fella 20 k away on track. No other details...oldbaz.
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Reply By: V8Diesel - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 13:12
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 13:12
Remember the Joseph Schwab murders in northern WA? Early 80's, picked off campers in remote loctions using 4 high powered rifles. I'm surprised I have never heard any more about it since. It must have been the largest mass murder WA has ever seen. I wonder how many people are never found in situations like that?
The TRG ended up peppering him in an ambush from memory. I saw one of the rifles he had with him and it was splinters.
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Reply By: Hairy - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 13:43
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 13:43
Even worse, there are lots of cases not reported and attempted murders.
If someone gets axed and survives it doesnt make national news, just the local papers.
A lot of the violence in town camps communities and even the streets of Alice are kept quite because it doesnt look good for aboriginal pepole and tourism.
A lot more common than most pepole would like to believe!
Cheers
Hairy
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 14:30
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 14:30
Yep, that magic word. Tourism.
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Reply By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 18:54
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 18:54
30,000 Australians go missing every year according to the stats. So in 666 years there will be nobody left.
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Follow Up By: Member - Pedro the One (QLD) - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 14:12
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 14:12
Devil of a time to be in ??????????????????
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Follow Up By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 15:22
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 15:22
Pedro!!!!!! Peddddrrrrroooo!!! PPeedddddrrrrrrrrooo???????
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Reply By: Member- Rox (WA) - Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 19:29
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 19:29
They fogot to mention Elvis Presley last seen .............. in Mackas
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Reply By: Bilbo - Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:19
Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:19
Remember what I said a while back about the film,"Wolf Creek"?
A D.I.Y manual for how to kidnap and kill someone I'd say.
Haven't we got enough crap going on this country without encouraging the loonies?
Bilbo
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