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BY ANELIA BLACKIE
Email: anelia@tbw.com.au
DISTRESSED and shocked
was how some Mount Gambier
residents described how they
felt after witnessing the public
shooting of corellas at the Blue
Lake Sports Park this week.
“They just shot them in front
of everyone ... it was horrible to
watch a bird drop from the sky
and feathers falling everywhere.
And when the bird landed on the
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pMount Gambier’s young
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violence is an unrelated
problem. Others say
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either. A new business
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school, offering local
young people a place to
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Telford are pictured
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ground, they shot more shots at
it to kill it,” a teenager told The
Border Watch after watching a
group of men shooting the birds
on Tuesday evening during a
sports practice session.
“Some other players in my
team wanted to run to them
and ask them to stop, but we
were too scared because they
had guns.”
Hockey player Mike Bruorton
expressed his disbelief in a letter
to The Border Watch.
“I was involved in club hockey
this Tuesday evening on the turf
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pitch when a number of birds
were killed (and some flew away,
clearly wounded), and the dis-
tress this caused to a number
of people was very clear,” Mr
Bruorton wrote.
“It is not exactly subtle, is it?
Five to 10 people blasting away
with shotguns 50 metres from
sporting fixtures, not to mention
the amount of lead raining down
on our clubroom as we have
experienced in the past.
“The situation was utterly
ludicrous, and obviously poten-
tially dangerous to all of the
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hockey players, with the shoot-
ing occurring only 40 metres
from the turf pitch.
“I am certainly no greenie, and
strongly support and advocate
the culling of all feral animals,
foxes, cats, rabbits and goats.
“I know the long-billed corel-
las can cause extensive damage,
and we have had our hockey
turf damaged in the past, but
we now cover this successfully
each year with no recurrence of
the damage.
Continued page 4
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Lake cliff fall
explanation
BY ELLIE TURNER
Email: ellie@tbw.com.au
THE man who fell down a cliff at the Blue
Lake on the weekend has called The Border
Watch to tell his side of the story.
Asking to remain anonymous, the man
was critical of an article in Tuesday’s paper
headlined “Relief leads to rescue bid”
following his 30-metre plunge.
A tip from a source claimed the man
climbed a barrier fence and slipped while
urinating at 1.45am, after having a few
drinks with his wife.
The man said this “could not be further
from the truth” and was the “biggest load of
garbage he had ever read”.
“The woman I was with is my fiancee, not
my wife, and there wasn’t a barrier there
either,” he said.
However, he admitted he had been drinking
and was “trying to have a leak” before he fell.
“I was walking under the lookout and
stopped next to a rubbish bin to urinate,” he
said.
“On the right-hand-side of that there are
rocks and when I stood up on top of them I
went over.
“I’ve got a very scratched bum and a couple
of little scratches on the head, but I was more
scared than anything.”
The man’s fiancee waited in the car while
he went to relieve himself and said she saw
him suddenly disappear from view.
“I waited about five minutes, but when
he didn’t come back I climbed the rock wall
nearby and still couldn’t see him,” she said.
“I yelled out and he said ‘I fell’ and I told
him to crab-crawl up the hill, but it was very
steep and slippery.
“The next thing he said was ‘throw me a
bloody smoke!’.”
She started to panic after a failed hill-
climbing attempt by her partner, during
which he fell again, and decided to call the
emergency services.
“The thing that upset me most was when
they got there nobody came within cooee of
me to tell me if he was all right,” she said.
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