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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.94.235 |
"A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/27/wwombat127.xml&C MP=ILC-mostviewedbox | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
You couldn't make it up... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.62.32 |
The only wombats I ever saw in NZ were dozens of dead ones by the side of the road. The locals deliberately go for them whilst driving. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
Ha! | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.66.122 |
Why would anyone deliberately do that? Sounds awful... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.62.32 |
Indeed Steve - it put me off NZ a little. I off set it by driving my little camper van down a side road way off where people usually roam and saw the littlest kiwi cross the road in front of me. You would have loved that Steve - blue green hills against an awesome bay and the little fellah. They are still about. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.54.92.149 |
I bet the man was leading the wombat on. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Aren't they considered pests? Remember the film "Razorback", with those weird guys hunting roos? I'm pretty sure they're seen as pests in Aus, too. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Ah Razorback! It was on Moviedrome a while back. Whatever happened to Alex Cox? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Moviedrome was brillaint - introduced me at a reasonably young age to a lot of great films. Cox s still directing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0943982/ SID AND NANCY is his best film, IMHO. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
"Moviedrome was brillaint - introduced me at a reasonably young age to a lot of great films." Yes, same here. First saw Carnival of Souls on it. Awesome. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
I loved carnival of souls Griff. I did a collage video re-edit short of it but never released it. It has amazing images and moods. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
It's all the more remarkable given the nature of much of the directors work, i.e producing several hundred public information films. From IMDB.COM: "(about his days at Centron): "I took a vacation and shot 'Carnival of Souls' in two weeks. I've been to festivals and people always ask, 'How come you made only one film?' And I say, 'Hell, I've made over four hundred.'" (1990s)" | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
'I took a vacation and shot Carnival of Souls in two weeks' That is insane. Older public information films are always fun to cut together (and occasionally subvert a little.) |