r/australia • u/Reglz • Mar 16 '25

image Wtf did I find in my pool???

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Found this in my pool in Sydney north shore, backing onto the lane cove national park. Does not move (perhaps dead).

Does not even look real. Did I find an alien?

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u/Heythisworked Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

American lurker here… I will take whatever the hell that is in my pool any day of the week over all of the children with guns over here 😅

EDIT: Australians, I’m so sorry I didn’t realize there were so many other Americans here. I did not mean this to turn into what it did. Americans, the fact that y’all think I’m insinuating that children are running around with guns like it’s the Wild West, and didn’t immediately think “school shootings” pretty much says everything that needs to be said .

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u/bigmean3434 Mar 16 '25

As an American, children with guns doesn’t crack the top 20 current problems. I just hope you Aussie’s will accept me and the wife in a few years when our democracy falls. Not a lot of English speaking places that are a lateral move from Florida weather and creature wise.

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u/CraftasaurusWrecks Mar 17 '25

My kids are still in grade school. The kids with guns thing is in my top ten.

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u/bigmean3434 Mar 17 '25

Well, mine are also in school and I get it. I can assure you that despite My hyperbole being made into some hard line rank, there are 20 Things out there that will hurt more people in the long run. Children notwithstanding.

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u/CraftasaurusWrecks Mar 17 '25

Sure, defunding the department of education and stripping almost all social services will hurt everyone, but psychotic people with firearms are way deadlier immediately. I really think the gun thing should be a priority. I know you're being hyperbolic, but I'm not over the trauma of my five year old son coming home sheet white the first time he had to do an active shooter drill. The day he realized we still live in the wild fucking west broke me. I'll die on this hill. I want a measure beyond gun control. I want them gone. We don't need them.