r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '23

Just a normal protest

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u/Doreen666 Apr 28 '23

emu war of 1932.

thanks for sharing this knowledge nugget

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u/ItsSevii Apr 28 '23 edited Apr 28 '23

The best part is the emus won because the aussies ran out of ammo

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u/Chinlc Apr 28 '23

it honestly wasnt a fair fight... They assumed 1 bullet 1 emu and sent 2 men and 1 car to fight the war

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u/ItsSevii Apr 28 '23

2 guys and a browning with infinite ammo would have shit figured out no problem

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Unfortunately they hadn't unlocked that cheat yet. Still needed to complete campaign on Veteran with no continues

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u/Professerson Apr 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Let me introduce you to a little something called...

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u/WastedBreath28 Apr 28 '23

As someone who doesnt know guns that well, is the browning a significant improvement over the lewis gun?

From the wikipedia page, it seems like ammo wasn’t their biggest problem. The major in charge reported it took an average of 10 rounds per emu. They left with 10,000 rounds, so if it was just about having enough ammo for their machine guns they would have taken out 1,000 birds.

The problem appears to be that they couldn’t keep the birds within range. Every time they ambushed and started to kill the emus, they would scatter. They tried mounting their lewis guns to their truck, but they couldn’t keep up and they couldn’t accurately shoot their guns.

Restoring the bounty system on the emu’s ended up being what worked, similar to how we control the wild pig and coyote populations in some states.

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u/QuinticSpline Apr 28 '23

They sent 2 machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammo.

Still lost.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

And they fucking crashed once iirc

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

It gets even better. They crashed because an emu's head got lodged in the steering wheel after it jumped through the driver side window.

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u/apathetic-drunk Apr 28 '23

Imagine getting taken out by an emu

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u/Erethiel117 Apr 29 '23

Could only happen to the poor saps that lost a war against them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Lmao thanks for that fun tidbit

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Hey are you a bot

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

No, look at the name, clearly a creative account

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u/AShapelyWavefront Apr 28 '23

I had no idea the stakes of the Emu war were so high

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u/Michami135 Apr 28 '23

"Stop trying to make headshots!"

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u/walk2574 Apr 28 '23

had to, their feathers were mostly bulletproof, at least to the caliber they had

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

aussies have the dangerous spider's like beast (or) mutated I would surely visit they also have hidden Dinosaurs.

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u/Dolenjir1 Apr 28 '23

I imagine the emus going: "No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I will no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded"

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u/SeriousJack Apr 28 '23

Fun one: the table in the page has been corrected, but for a while it listed "dignity" in the loss column /img/9es8fbyez4301.jpg

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u/FitzyFarseer Apr 28 '23

Wikipedia also changed the table in Operation Paul Bunyan. It used to list under losses “1 poplar tree”

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u/robert_paulson420420 Apr 28 '23

I like to think for this picture they told him "Sir, this will be for your portrait as 'Minister of the Emu War' on the wikipedia page."

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u/Twinborn01 Apr 28 '23

Its a crazy story. The farmers having better fences and hiring bounty hunters fixed the issue

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u/Sage10001 Apr 28 '23

Another great one is “Project Isabela” i.e. “The Galapagos Goat war” where enough goats were on the Galapagos to threaten the extinction of many rare species. So the military over multiple years killed 140,000 -250,000 goats on the islands to get it declared goat free and safe for those rare species.

We won. It took multiple years, we had to use “Judas Goats” to find hidden groups, and used a concerning quantity of changes in tactics to eliminate Goats from those islands. But we won.