mickb wrote:Looks to me like an attack on thermal scope ownership on the horizon.
Blr243 wrote:I tend to think of poachers , esp nighttime road runners , as feral, selfish, dishonest ratbags... how do these type of people have The type of job that pays well enough to go out and spend 8 k on a thermal scope?
on_one_wheel wrote:Blr243 wrote:I tend to think of poachers , esp nighttime road runners , as feral, selfish, dishonest ratbags... how do these type of people have The type of job that pays well enough to go out and spend 8 k on a thermal scope?
There's no shortage of Ferals with high paying jobs.
Think mining, exploration and oil & gas
trekin wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:Blr243 wrote:I tend to think of poachers , esp nighttime road runners , as feral, selfish, dishonest ratbags... how do these type of people have The type of job that pays well enough to go out and spend 8 k on a thermal scope?
There's no shortage of Ferals with high paying jobs.
Think mining, exploration and oil & gas
Pretty broad brush there mate. Having spent my whole working life, before being pensioned off, working in these three areas, and I can tell you that the percentage of ferals is no higher than whatever line of work you are in.
mickb wrote:Miners were some of the hardest fastest workers I worked with, but personal ethics wise some were pretty loose. Id been in the military so was pretty sheltered I guess. The drug use, vehicle bingles and theft in mining topped anything I had seen previously I was a stores supervisor in mining and had to nail everything down or it walked.
on_one_wheel wrote:mickb wrote:Miners were some of the hardest fastest workers I worked with, but personal ethics wise some were pretty loose. Id been in the military so was pretty sheltered I guess. The drug use, vehicle bingles and theft in mining topped anything I had seen previously I was a stores supervisor in mining and had to nail everything down or it walked.
Absolutely. Even if it's nailed down, they'll book out a claw hammer to pull the nails. Fancy earning 100k / 200k and finding the need to steal from the workplace.
Olympic Dam was the worst I saw for theft. They even had bobcats, lighting plants and excavators walk off that site.
One bloke who got caught out took the police to his stash of stolen goods at Andamooka, apparently it was a mind boggling hours of goods and equipment
Also, I've never seen so many men and women in any one workplace other than mining who struggle to use a toilet without getting feces on the walls
mchughcb wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:mickb wrote:Miners were some of the hardest fastest workers I worked with, but personal ethics wise some were pretty loose. Id been in the military so was pretty sheltered I guess. The drug use, vehicle bingles and theft in mining topped anything I had seen previously I was a stores supervisor in mining and had to nail everything down or it walked.
Absolutely. Even if it's nailed down, they'll book out a claw hammer to pull the nails. Fancy earning 100k / 200k and finding the need to steal from the workplace.
Olympic Dam was the worst I saw for theft. They even had bobcats, lighting plants and excavators walk off that site.
One bloke who got caught out took the police to his stash of stolen goods at Andamooka, apparently it was a mind boggling hours of goods and equipment
Also, I've never seen so many men and women in any one workplace other than mining who struggle to use a toilet without getting feces on the walls
Really? Exactly what year was that? Every bit of gear leaving site either under WMC or BHP had to be decontaminated for uranium and given a ticket before it leaves. As for Andamooka, its a pretty small opal town so word gets around fast.
mchughcb wrote:[
Really? Exactly what year was that? Every bit of gear leaving site either under WMC or BHP had to be decontaminated for uranium and given a ticket before it leaves. As for Andamooka, its a pretty small opal town so word gets around fast.
Sporting Shooter wrote:"“To get on top of it once and for all I think we need a combination of approaches.
“Things like permanent traffic monitoring cameras to establish night time traffic patterns then an unannounced increase in police presence during the hours of the night that traffic spikes.”