It slithered out of my pal Best's other shoe!

A subject that occasionally comes up here is the sweet and lovely wildlife of Australia, this country in which I got stuck twenty years ago and have not managed to get out. Here's somebody else who got stuck. These photies are being passed along by my pal Best, who has only recently recovered from the necrotic flesh malady caused by a spider setting up house in his Florsheims:


Waitaminnit, that's him on the phone!
"Eddie, did you get the photos? Some tourists on holidays came across the snake caught in an electric fence at a cattle station near Nyngan, being continually shocked, and getting very angry! The group wondering what to do, decide to divert the current, cut the wire AND let the snake go! (As you should do)."
wha? how they-



"When the property owner found out he went ballistic, besides being upset about his fence, the snake had been eating lambs in the area, and he'd been trying to track it for ages. He did not appreciate the help!"
I hope that's not anybody we know inside it.
"Speaking of which, are you coming in for lunch?"
No, I think that'll be me off back to Scotland.
But thanks for roning.

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Another thought on yesterday's RULE #5.
When I was sketching the criminal trials for the tv news, there were a couple of times they weren't allowed to show the face of the accused, because he was underage or whatever. So they pixilated the face in the sketch, which at the time seemed daft to me, to pay somebody to go and get a likeness of the guy on trial when they knew in advance they'd have to hide the work. Later it occurred to me that all the tv news wants is pictorial evidence that a trial took place, and also that they had a person covering it. Similarly, on another occasion I saw them throw a story out because they had nothing visual to support it.