If anyone wants to read about the REAL reason instead of watching this AI generated clickbait bullshit you can do so here: https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-those-little-dots-are-on-the-edges-of-your-c-1791075995

Can I pet that dawg?!?

Dude looks like he's having fun with his refurbished coin pusher machine and casino movie prop money. Good for him.

This is like the idiots who will "save" a sloth from swimming across a river or lake despite the fact that they were doing just fine.

Echidnas are actually very good swimmers and use their long noses like snorkels, sometimes they'll just hop in the water for a bit of fun.
What if the little echidna's burrow was on the other side?

The lake is huge, so even if you spaced out a ramp every few hundred metres, you're talking a lot of ramps.

The water also isn't good for swimming, and I think ramps would give the wrong impression.

I live near this lake, and it's pretty shallow on the edges.
Kangaroos will naturally jump in water to get away from people and their dogs (see all the news articles about them drowning peoples dogs), but then they can't get out because of the wall.

What you see here is a semi-regular event at Lake Burley-Griffin, and sometimes the roos don't make it out.

The more you know.

Also a lot of rehab and permanent nerve damage for the poor girl. She will never be the same again. Not sure that's worth the 5 mil...

*ban
not on my sift

Um... what!?
Best I can tell, this young person was just concerned for the wellbeing of her friend, and given the number of videos that we see on the Sift of cops showing that they absolutely cannot be trusted, I think that's fair enough.

If your argument is that it's wrong that her boyfriend would probably get much worse treatment for the same behaviour, then you've phrased it really strangely, but I agree; we need fewer people caught up in the justice system for minor stuff, not more, regardless of gender or race.

Good on the cops in this case for getting the balance right and only charging the idiot who got drunk and endangered others by getting behind the wheel.

A story as old as bricks themselves and a blatant retelling of the Bricklayer's Song, which I can find attributed to the Corries, but probably even predates them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Kzje9nF4A

https://videosift.com/video/Cant-even-shop-Whats-this-then-slart
Black Comedy on the ABC (Australian broadcaster) did it first... and better.

Edit: Sifted the video instead of youtube link.

Uh why does this have the Asia tag?
It's clearly Australia.

Also we don't have a mandatory masks rule here because unlike some countries run by orange muppets, we're actually doing an okay job at stopping the spread.

The more you know!

Pretty sure it's pronounced "bate-man" rather than like the superhero. Odd that an Australian satire mob would get that wrong.

Noooo, they're too delicious to be this cute and smart!
That's it! I'm eating baby humans now too, just to be consistent.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
I expect police to behave in a far more professional manner than this guy did.
I bet he wouldn't last a day teaching in any high school, just body slam the first kid that mouthed off and end up in bars where he belonged. Yet give him a badge and a gun and suddenly he's applauded for being a thug. Go figure.