Thursday, January 7, 2010

Really wild life

I went to the country on the weekend and on the drive back I saw a dead kangaroo with what I thought said 'Slut' spray painted on it. Needless to say, this killed me. I puzzled over it for a while before I saw another dead kangaroo with 'Slow' painted on it. I figured that the first one must also have had 'slow' painted on it, because the alternative was far to awesome to have been real. Typing this now I sigh and think 'if only, if only the dead kangaroo had said slut, that would have been so much better'. Hilarious. Anyway, then I started thinking about what strange turn of events had led to a dead kangaroo with 'slow' spray painted on it by the side of the highway.

Firstly, what did 'slow' mean? Was it a comment on the kangaroos themselves, had someone been hurtling down the highway and seen the kangaroo on the road and had they perhaps locked eyes and for a moment and were they both somehow connected, was there some sort of psychic nod where they both agreed, "This is it, a race for death, car and kangaroo and only one winner", did the kangaroo lower its head and charge, perhaps the driver was screaming a war cry, foot to the floor with a death grip on the steering wheel.

Was it maybe a new initiative by the T.A.C. to warn drivers of the consequences, maybe other kangaroos had placed them there to warn each other. Who is dragging these carcasses here and why are they spray painting 'slow' on them. Is there a law against it? Should there be? Is it wrong to kill an animal and then paint on it, to mark it as yours, even if you killed it accidentally? What is right or wrong in this situation?

To be honest, I really don't know where I'm headed with this one. Where do you go with dead wildlife that has been vandalized? It's beyond a level of weird that even I have trouble comprehending. So I leave you with that while I reel out of here in a fog of incomprehension with mild brain damage, goodnight.

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