MOST people in the bush would have seen dead wild dogs strung up on fences and in trees.
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For tourists to the outback however, it may be a bit too confronting and potentially deter them from parting with their dollars.
According to the Ringer's correspondent, Blackall Sally, the best-known raconteur and walking history encyclopedia, Stu Benson, came up with the idea of doing the next best thing with a piece of artwork depicting a dog strung up.
The dog can be seen at Ram Park, Blackall's visitor information centre, which features a large fibreglass ram.
It's a good idea. It gives city folk a dose of the artistic and creative talent which exists in the bush, as well as a visualisation of the menace wild dogs are.
There's potential here to create a series of strung up dogs stretching throughout Queensland, emphasising the point.
Could become quite an attraction, although "The Wild Dog Way" might not be the best name for it.
Boomerang crim
A RETIRED police officer was relaying some of his experiences from operating in western Queensland.
He'd done some of his service in Moranbah and reckons one time, he and a colleague tracked down and arrested a bloke up to no good.
They put him in the back of a "paddy wagon" as they called it. Back then, things were handled a bit differently, so the officers decided to make the offender, who was fairly timid by this stage, sweat a bit.
They ducked into a local pub for lunch and left "the accused" inside the wagon.
When they wandered out, the first thing they noticed is one of the wagon's rear windows was missing – not smashed, just missing from the hole.
The officers thought the worst before looking inside the wagon to see old mate sitting in there with the removed window in his hands.
Apparently he'd decided to make a run for it, removed the window and squeezed out, but when he got through he thought about the further consequences of running off, so crawled back in.
