Crappy jobs
Submitted: Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 21:35
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Member - Davoe (Nullagine)
Watched a seppo show on
Foxtel about crappy jobs. One was the guy who picks up roadkill. I laughed thinking they dont bother over here
- WRONG my missus is in Pt Hedland and has just been talking to the guy that does it in the Pillbarra.
Anyone else heard of this?
Reply By: Gramps (NSW) - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 21:37
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 21:37
LOL I thought we left it to Hekyll and Jekyll
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Reply By: Motherhen - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 21:40
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 21:40
Yes, I've seen it happening - not sure it was WA or SA. Meanwhile around here a neighbouring farmer gets the dead roos quick to feed his dogs.
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Reply By: Member - Charlie (WA) - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:01
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:01
Yep, saw that about 4 weeks ago. Two people cleaning up roadkill just south of Port Headland.
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Reply By: Shaker - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:31
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:31
If you
check into it, you will find that not only do they do it here, but there is a varying penalty rate for different road pizzas!
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Reply By: Richard Kovac - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:34
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:34
Yep mate back East years ago, when working for the CRB got $5.00 extra for every road kill they had to pick up.. ;-)
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Reply By: Gerhardp1 - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:49
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 22:49
They'd make a fortune in Tassie - when last there in April, I drove around the northeast -
Bridport,
Ringarooma, etc, and the amount of road kill was the most I've ever seen, and I grew up in Tassie.
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Follow Up By: mike w (WA) - Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 23:55
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007 at 23:55
I remember listening to a doco on triple J a few years ago about a guy from tassie who used to pick up fresh road kill for his food. Turned out that what he was doing was illegal (the taking it for food bit that is)
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:24
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:24
A couple of days before we moved to
Melbourne, I drove round to the Hillwood strawberry
farm to get some dessert, and ran over a large rabbit.
On the way back I stopped to
check because I kept thinking it was too big and the wrong colour to be a rabbit, and there lay the dead hare.
Took it
home and skinned it - it was only a really
young one and made a delicious Sunday lunch. It was unusual in that we'd been shooting rabbits for 20 years in the area, and had never seen a hare.
Ah, the memoirs - no problem owning a rifle, no problem from the farmers shooting rabbits on their turf......bygone era for sure
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Reply By: Ozboc - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:22
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:22
ALL local councils in
sydney have a road kill clean up department , its just in the best interest of public hygene , but speeking of bad jobs - as a contractor years ago , i would go to all types of
places that needed work done - one was a small company that does sanitary
bins (
bins in womens
toilets for tampons and pads)
JOb description as follows -- if you have a weak stomach -- dont read on _
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The guys job was to open the
bins - and by hand remove all the contents of the bin ( had gloves on) then had to put the contents into a compactor which would squeeze the used womens products into large blocks - he would then proceed to wash the
bins out with high pressue water ( ever sprayed water into a bucket? splashes back everywhere right ? )
I asked the guy , do you like your job - he replied yeh , its easy and i dont have to work hard...! Lmao i think this was the worst job i had come accross - close second was the guys that had to clear blockages at Northhead sewerage works :)
Boc
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Follow Up By: Member - BUNDY BOY (WA) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:34
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:34
hi there Dave...................me thinks Nanutarra roadhouse ...
well it looks n tastes like somethin nasty anyway ....:)))
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Follow Up By: Sand Man (SA) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:02
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:02
During my Electrical Apprenticeship many many years ago, one of the tasks assigned to apprentices was to fix the electric burners installed in the Works' Women's
toilets.
It didn't happen that often, but when one broke down there was usually "left overs" in the oven that had to be removed.
All part of the multi-skilled Electrical Fitter's repertoire:-))
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Follow Up By: Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 23:18
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 23:18
Sand Man, I'm hearing you!!
Geoff
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Reply By: equinox - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:44
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:44
They clean them up between Madura and Eucla
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 18:39
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 18:39
there ya go its only news to me I thought the eagles and crows ate them or they were just mashed into nothing
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Reply By: Trevor R (QLD) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 18:59
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 18:59
Don't know anyone picking up roadkill for a job, but I have heard of a bloke who's job at the $h!t
farm in Mackay included going out in a dinghy to unclog the rotating arms of objects and animals that got stuck in them. Worst Job I have ever heard of!!!!! (you wouldn't want to be unsteady Eddy in that job)
Cheers, Trevor.
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 20:53
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 20:53
Up $hit creek without a paddle :)))
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Reply By: Member - Charlie M (SA) - Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 23:34
Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 at 23:34
In SA dept of road transport or their contractors do the job
Cheers
Charlie
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