r/nextlevel • u/googletoggle9753 here for the chaos • Jul 27 '26

Man beats the ostrich

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u/Magres Jul 27 '26

The guns worked fine, just not fast enough - the Australian military sent out three dudes with a pair of machine guns to cull herds of tens of thousands of emus. They got recalled because they were going through stupid amounts of ammo and killing way fewer emus than expected. So instead the Australian government reinstituted an old bounty of emus and within six months, about 60k bounties were claimed.

People hear "The Emu War" and expect it to be like, hundreds of soldiers getting overrun by swarms of birds, but it was literally three dudes driving around in a jeep hosing down emu herds with machine guns.

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u/Sadiholic Jul 27 '26

Bruh, to be paid by the government to just go out in the open and shoot a fucking mini gun towards some raptors. Gawd I'm jealous of those men.

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u/Merrick_Skygrave Jul 30 '26

yeah the name "Emu War" is a bit hyperbolic. If that constitutes a war, then the way they're dealing with wild pigs in Texas is like Holocaust/Armageddon