Bruce from West Oz
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This has nothing to do with guns, but ...
I don't know how much you've heard in your news, but an American "tourist" (Bogucki?) has gone missing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
He's been gone for 3 weeks, since they found his pushbike and some personal belongings near a place called Sandfire. (The a**hole of the earth IMHO.)
His parents called in an American "Special Rescue Group" (reportedly at a cost of $35 000) to try to, at least, find his body and take it back to the USA. Tonight they announced they had failed and were calling off the search.
Note that this was after the local police, using Aboriginal trackers, had already called off their search.
Fellas (and ladies), I've lived in the Kimberley (at Broome actually), and it is unique. There is nowhere else like it on earth -- not even Death Valley is the same. Imagine Death Valley in the Tropics??
It's not a "desert" for a start (which is how it's reported). Sure, there's very little free water, and even this time of year (the "cool" season) temps are around 95 degrees F. But the ground (bright orange/red soil) is covered with spinifex -- and King Brown snakes. They are deadly -- one of the deadliest in the world from memory. They also are quite "arrogant" and don't flee as readily as some others. They can be up to 5 feet long.
They had a lot of rain there this year, and the ground cover is over waist high. The man could've been six feet from them and they would never have seen him.
I've seen spinifex stakes punch clean through a 20-ply 4WD tyre (tire), so imagine what that could do to your feet. And Bogucki was reported to be walking barefoot and at night -- when he wouldn't be able to see zilch. Of course, the question is "why?".
I have immense faith in Aboriginal trackers -- those guys are almost supernatural in their abilities. But they couldn't find him, even though they did find his tracks.
Putting it all together, I venture to say Mr Bogucki didn't want to be found. Why? No idea. But I've seen people go "troppo" up there many times. It's insidious and no one is immune.
I'm not saying that is the reason, just offering it up for discussion.
I am so sorry for his parents. If any of my children went missing in a "foreign" country, I would be beside myself. We're not really "foreign", but I understand the feeling.
Just submitted in the public interest.
Any questions, please ask.
B
[This message has been edited by Bruce from West Oz (edited August 20, 1999).]
I don't know how much you've heard in your news, but an American "tourist" (Bogucki?) has gone missing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
He's been gone for 3 weeks, since they found his pushbike and some personal belongings near a place called Sandfire. (The a**hole of the earth IMHO.)
His parents called in an American "Special Rescue Group" (reportedly at a cost of $35 000) to try to, at least, find his body and take it back to the USA. Tonight they announced they had failed and were calling off the search.
Note that this was after the local police, using Aboriginal trackers, had already called off their search.
Fellas (and ladies), I've lived in the Kimberley (at Broome actually), and it is unique. There is nowhere else like it on earth -- not even Death Valley is the same. Imagine Death Valley in the Tropics??
It's not a "desert" for a start (which is how it's reported). Sure, there's very little free water, and even this time of year (the "cool" season) temps are around 95 degrees F. But the ground (bright orange/red soil) is covered with spinifex -- and King Brown snakes. They are deadly -- one of the deadliest in the world from memory. They also are quite "arrogant" and don't flee as readily as some others. They can be up to 5 feet long.
They had a lot of rain there this year, and the ground cover is over waist high. The man could've been six feet from them and they would never have seen him.
I've seen spinifex stakes punch clean through a 20-ply 4WD tyre (tire), so imagine what that could do to your feet. And Bogucki was reported to be walking barefoot and at night -- when he wouldn't be able to see zilch. Of course, the question is "why?".
I have immense faith in Aboriginal trackers -- those guys are almost supernatural in their abilities. But they couldn't find him, even though they did find his tracks.
Putting it all together, I venture to say Mr Bogucki didn't want to be found. Why? No idea. But I've seen people go "troppo" up there many times. It's insidious and no one is immune.
I'm not saying that is the reason, just offering it up for discussion.
I am so sorry for his parents. If any of my children went missing in a "foreign" country, I would be beside myself. We're not really "foreign", but I understand the feeling.
Just submitted in the public interest.
Any questions, please ask.
B
[This message has been edited by Bruce from West Oz (edited August 20, 1999).]