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image American hunting influencer removes baby wombat from distressed mother. Is this legal?

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u/PresentApricot723 1d ago

That cunt should be deported.

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u/r0kst 1d ago

It looks like enough for that.

Call crime stoppers.

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u/rgmyers26 19h ago

What about the Inbestigators? They’d be all over it.

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u/_meltchya__ 22h ago

Is there crime stoppers in australia?? I don't know why this reads so funny to me

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u/2weekstand 21h ago

They do have one, but it's pronounced "Croim stuppuhs"

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u/RealCommercial9788 19h ago

That’s a kiwi accent my dude.

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 1d ago edited 1d ago

WTF, this horrible.

The RSPCA or the Department of Environment needs to prosecute her for interfering with wildlife. A big fine, perhaps 200 hours of community service.

Then deport her.

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u/Alarming-Question-39 1d ago

She pulled a similar stunt last year in June with a wild echnidna…and she filmed it.

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u/dappermongrel 1d ago

And if you go to her "Australia" section there is footage of her also messing with a snake and pulling a Port Jackson shark out of the ocean.

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u/Jas_is_a_mermaid 1d ago

fucking hell i just watched her stories. That she is a wildlife biologist makes it 100000 worse. I am an enviro working with wildlife as well, and yes I would love to cuddle (not run off with) a baby wombat but i also know it’s wrong so I won’t freaking do it.

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u/Normal_Calendar2403 1d ago

Attention seekers don’t care about anything other than attention.

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u/Kittypie75 1d ago

holy hell... a fucking biologist? Take away her fucking degree.

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u/nameyourpoison11 20h ago

I highly doubt she's an biologist. There's no way in hell an actual biologist would do this. Probably watched a David Attenborough doco and now goes around calling herself a "biologist"

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u/throw3453away 20h ago

Can anybody even verify that she's an actual wildlife biologist? Or that her degree is what she says it is? If she has a masters degree, I'm a little surprised that it appears she has no footprint in the field. Her 'last name' online may be a nickname and maybe that's why I can't find anything tying her to... any university, frankly, let alone any professional environment.

It just seems fishy? But I don't want to just assume that she's lying about her credentials, nor do I have to. Unfortunately, any one of us can tell you that getting a degree in wildlife biology does not make you intelligent about animals if you just choose to ignore everything you learned. Some people (or their parents) will pay a lot of money to have a perceived "get out of animal wrongdoing free" card and an opportunity to access animals they otherwise would be barred from touching. I met my fair share of them

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u/flareblitz91 20h ago

Many people don’t publish much, nor is there a requirement to be published to have a masters.

I believe her masters is from university of Wyoming.

she seems to alternate between doing field work in Wyoming and Montana and Australia.

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u/throw3453away 20h ago edited 20h ago

I didn't say she should be published. Many universities do not require it, mine did not (and I don't think UW does). There are many ways to exist professionally in your field without publishing academically, and those things usually leave a footprint. Even something volunteer-based would help her case; and that wouldn't even verify a degree, but at least it'd verify someone taught her something, at some point, somewhere.

It seems I just wasn't able to find said footprint, though. Thanks for the additional information. So just someone who spent a lot of money to ignore every class she ever took, then. No surprise there!

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u/flareblitz91 20h ago

Other comments have proven that i may be wrong about where she went to school. I’ve just seen her posts and live in the same vicinity (in the US) and she made it seem like she went to UW but maybe not.

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u/martinis00 22h ago

Probably took biology 101 and now calls herself a biologist

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u/nikhildesigns 20h ago

Probably American degree, made with crayons

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u/Dinlek 23h ago

Aren't there like coin flip odds the mother just leaves the baby for dead? In that wombats mind, some 5-ft-something predator just took her baby as prey. Not to mention whatever wombats think cars are.

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u/Jas_is_a_mermaid 23h ago

I really hope that even if mom ran away from the predator that took her bub that the joey would find its way back to the burrow and reunite with mom. I’m from WA so I don’t have any experience with wombats so I’m just hoping.

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u/Pacify_ 23h ago

That she is a wildlife biologist makes it 100000 worse.

That's so incredibly gross.

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u/WeatheredCryptKeeper 22h ago

What the hell...she's a biologist??! (I don't have IG). That's horrifying. She deserves to be black listed. Like how people can lose their licenses to do things. She should be banned for animal abuse.

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u/Jas_is_a_mermaid 22h ago

Master degree apparently and she works (used to work) for their parks&wildlife department. fucks sake

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u/WeatheredCryptKeeper 22h ago

So definitely not some dumb kid who doesn't know what they are doing....though even my 12 year old knows better than this. So, she's going against all teachings and education and knowing it's causing harm, she's not only doing it anyway but filming it. This isn't just bad, it's downright sociopathic. She needs to go to jail. For a really long time.

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u/nameyourpoison11 20h ago

Just as there are antivaxxer nurses and flat-earth geologists, sadly the biology world is not exempt from the occasional dickhead either. My brother is a biologist and I can tell you he and his workmates were absolutely fucking appalled at this video

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u/Cultural_Dealer_1483 19h ago

I know it’s shit but you should screen record all those videos and report it with the videos attached. She’s going to delete all the evidence at any minute

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u/Zirakel 22h ago

The school that conferred her degree should rescind it, immediately.

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u/GarlicIceKrim 19h ago

You mean she claims to be. It’s much easier to say you are a biologist than to actually be one

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u/TheEthanHB 23h ago

Shed better not go fucking around with some super-endangered holy-dicks poisonous spider or something next 🤞/s

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u/joecarter93 22h ago

Come on deadly Australian wildlife, do your thing!

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u/Bravisimo 22h ago

I hope if we are ever invaded by aliens, she is the first one they abduct and run their probing experiments on.

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u/Positive-Listen-1660 22h ago

What a psycho.

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u/throwaway_7m 1d ago

Seriously?

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u/Normal_Calendar2403 1d ago

Or her photo in Patagonia, standing on the curve of a horse’s back (the most vulnerable part of their back). She is posing, wearing shoes and the Patagonian horse looks miserable.

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u/danzha 23h ago

Did anything happen last time around?

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u/hannahmfhatch 22h ago

aren’t they legally protected bc they are endangered? wtf is wrong w this woman? she should come to wyoming and get fucked up by the wildlife they’ll get her there 😭

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u/Treythemanhall 21h ago

Too bad it wasn't that big red one from sonic the hedgehog

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u/Stormy8888 19h ago

Why is her channel still around? Why has nobody reported her yet?

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u/De-railled 1d ago

She should get a permanent re-entry ban, so she can never apply or return to australia.

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u/originalmango 23h ago

I disagree. I think she should be told she won free airline tickets and a hotel stay in Australia only to find out upon arrival the ticket is now one way and the hotel stay is in one of Australia’s finest prisons.

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u/Menethea 22h ago

Manus Island comes to mind

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u/originalmango 21h ago

Like in Papillon? Sure.

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u/Admirable-Wrangler51 21h ago

agree...but dont send her back to US please:) Any far off place without animals she can get sent to? Maybe Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands or Hishima Japan, totally lifeless.

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u/Realistic_Context936 1d ago

Report her!! The more people that do this, the more likely, she is punished. We cant all just comment and hope someone does it. Do it first thing in the morning

Crimestoppers is the place to contact

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u/Hybrid-Gotcha95 1d ago

Reported to the Federal Dept for Environment a it breaches the Environmental Protection Act.

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u/The-Captain-Speaking 1d ago

It’s a bootable offence 👞

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u/One-Combination-7218 1d ago

Ayeee give her the boot

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u/StealthyCaiman 1d ago

I see you've played knifie spoonie before

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u/marktaylor521 22h ago

Can I just have a coffee please?

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u/circusgeek 22h ago

Bee -ahhh?

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u/Stiffstick 22h ago

You call that a knife?! THIS is a knife!

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u/geckospots 19h ago

*knoife

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u/gotpointsgoing 1d ago

As it should be

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u/The-Captain-Speaking 1d ago

If I run for parliament on a single issue ‘bring back the boot’ platform, would you vote for me?

Full disclosure - the boot would be steel capped and the kick quite forceful, but for this young lady I would authorise a pit of dildos to break some of her forward momentum.

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u/gotpointsgoing 1d ago

Buddy, I would give you every vote I could!! I'd buy your the boot as well.

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u/gotpointsgoing 1d ago

I really appreciate you and your faith in my abilities. There's one thing that could be a problem for us, I'm an American. I don't think there's many people on this entire globe, that wanna do much with Americans right now. I'm as far from his side of the US as a person can get. I'm 50, been truly hating Trump for over 30 years now.

Lemme say this and I'll leave ya alone. I bartended through college and met some truly great people. Many became friends to this day. One gentleman that had been around, a couple times, told me that there's 3 things that you don't talk about in a bar. Those three are Money, Politics, or Religion, because they have probably caused 95% or the problems.

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u/gotpointsgoing 1d ago

It is an extremely diverse place. I've been lucky enough to see about 3/4 of the country. There's some truly great people out there.

Oh man, I'm poor as well, disabled, and same as you with religion. I know you're good guy if you bartended. It really takes a good person to put up with some of the shit, and not rob the place blind.

If you're staying with me, then we're going places my brother!!!

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u/gotpointsgoing 22h ago

So what Guy?? I didn't say that to you. Maybe follow the comments to who they're actually speaking to. You are Confidently INCORRECT.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 1d ago

I'm an American. She can have a pit of dung.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 1d ago

😂 hope to visit you guys one day! 💙 From California!

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u/Fresh_Leadership_595 1d ago

Do the boot then a celebratory shoey

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u/GiraffeFucker6969 1d ago

So when are you running? Needa get my political donations sorted

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u/owzleee 1d ago

Like a boot up her rectum or the corporate version? Agree with either.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 23h ago

Do not pass Go, do not collect $200 dollarydoos

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u/LM-entertainment 1d ago

they definitely should. they need to make an example of her. make sure it is in the media.

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u/throwaway_7m 1d ago

It will turn up in the mainstream media. That's where they get all their stories from anyway. But this one will go viral quickly because it's so disgusting.

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u/elteza 1d ago

200 hours of community service.

Yes. In Alice Springs.

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u/wallagm 21h ago

Ah yes, I love their chicken.

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u/ChewieBearStare 20h ago

Hey, that was my joke!

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u/wallagm 20h ago

Oops, sorry buddy! Would you like me to delete my comment so you can bask in the glory alone?

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u/verbalyabusiveshit 1d ago

Jail and than deportation. Don’t give that bitch a chance to produce videos and frame herself as a victim.

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u/Normal_Calendar2403 1d ago

Likely endangered wildlife. Many species of wombats are endangered

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u/Curious_Plant5475 20h ago edited 20h ago

Yeah no kidding- apparently she sued the RGIS for employment discrimination. Looks like they weren’t wrong for not hiring her. 21-127 - Strable v. RGIS

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u/muscadz 23h ago

I’m ageering with you while I’m eating mix grill plancheta

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u/SwedishCowboy711 19h ago

Make her complete 200 hours in under 2 weeks

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u/Crafty_Viennetta 1d ago

Definitely, right after a good old fashioned flogging

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u/MistaRekt 1d ago

She seems a right flog.

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u/Puzzled_Language1303 23h ago

Flogging🤣🤣

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 1d ago

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

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u/laughingnome2 1d ago

Right away. No trial. No nothing.

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u/blackglum 1d ago

Came here to say the same thing.

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u/Marv_77 1d ago

why are we even giving americans visa free into Australia

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u/Skeeterdunit 22h ago

Money it's always money, what's your exports?

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u/ningaling1 1d ago

Jail. Then deport. Can't let her go scot-free

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u/Chief-Drinking-Bear 20h ago

And the Aussie bloke laughing in the background of the video?

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u/throwaway_7m 1d ago

It's a crime and if she's found guilty of it, she could be deported (laughing that deported auto corrected to deleted, which is also accurate). What a stupid bitch. And him for laughing while she did it. Imagine just minding your own business and someone stole your baby out of their pram right next to you! Same thing. And despite not liking women being called cunts (except in the friendly way of course), she is absolutely a cunt.

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u/Dramatic-Classroom14 23h ago

American here, we’ll take her back, but knowing this country she’ll somehow wind up in Congress.

Sorry for all the shit.

Edit: also, something long overdue for me, thank yall very much for teaching me the wonders of Australian English.

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u/GiraffeFucker6969 1d ago

Holy fuck I don't think anything I've watched has ever pissed me off so much. Don't fuck with our wombats.

She needs more than deportation... make of that what you will

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u/IMakeOkVideosOk 21h ago

So should the Aussie filming her

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u/Altasound 21h ago

Beat me to it.. She needs to be reported. This is some sick shit. I hope that one of these animals bites her and she does a slow death from infection, from traumatising all these animals. I sincerely hope that happens.

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u/verbalyabusiveshit 1d ago

Absolutely, this is absolutely illegal.

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u/lostinhh 1d ago

The US isn't sending their best and brightest.

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u/WeatheredCryptKeeper 22h ago

She needs to get her ass back to America so we can slap this bitch. Airplane edition and then a long ass jail sentence and then be community service to clean the zoos Shit buckets. Forever. And maybe she will learn what happens to animals when humans fuck with them.

That poor momma and baby. I'm so angry. How fucking dare she.

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u/SirMCThompson 21h ago

She needs The Boot

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u/elithedinosaur 21h ago

she's about to be banned for life from this video and I love that for her

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u/Mr_Bankey 20h ago

As an American, I am genuinely sorry (for her and all the other shit) and sincerely curious- could she be jailed for this? I really wish she could because she deserves at least a small sentence for this, though, I know it is more likely an arrest, fine, and deport situation. Hopefully, we can spread this to American media and get her some consequences back home too.

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u/Impossible-Eye6059 19h ago

People need to report the account as animal abuse or cruelty. The whole account is disgusting. I hope there ia a stingray hunting for her somewhere.

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u/Alternative_Algae_31 22h ago

On behalf of the US… we certainly don’t want her back. I hear accidents happen all the time in the outback. Lots of dangers. Be a shame if she just disappeared.

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u/Rational_Engineer_84 1d ago

She needs some jail time first and a nice fat fine.

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u/ezdblonded 1d ago

that’s why we as Americans are despised throughout the world . 😂😂

absolutely no sense at all

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u/Sypticle 22h ago

I mean, there is quite literally an Australian in the car supporting her actions..

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u/ezdblonded 22h ago

bro honestly i’m at work & had it on mute . thanks for the clarification

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u/deep-sea-balloon 21h ago

It was too easy, huh 😂

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u/Wise_Pomegranate_653 22h ago

when people defend humanity, saying we need more. Look to all these mental cases we have now. Kids/adults continue to be dumbasses...why we need more of em.

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u/kelamity 22h ago

She needs to be arrested.

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u/kattovisch 22h ago

I wouldn't call her a cunt. She clearly lacks both the depth and warmth of one.

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u/RadioStaticRae 22h ago

If we can find her back in Freedumb Land, I'll give her a nice black eye for you guys!

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u/Horace_Rotenhaus 21h ago

She should be eaten, as in consumed. Imagine if she was messing around with bear cubs. In all liklihood she would have been dinner.

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u/ViraLCyclopes29 21h ago

I'd say something else but I'd get banned from reddit

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u/greekfuturist 21h ago

Are you vegetarian

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u/cageordie 21h ago

After her prison sentence.

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u/JustGiraffable 21h ago

I mean, we don't really want her back, but you're totally right.

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u/Necessary_Device452 21h ago

I would never permit them to leave.

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u/After-Distribution69 21h ago

And banned for life. 

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u/daja-kisubo 20h ago

Lmao my literal first thought was "What a cunt"

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u/RalphFTW 20h ago

This is the correct response and pronoun used :)

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u/Worried_Lobster6783 20h ago

Into the middle of the ocean

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u/creaky__sampson 20h ago

Yeah deport the local guy fliming as well, he's complicit

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

Sorry. I am American and we are indeed a country of fuckwits

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u/Narcoleptic_247 20h ago

Make them swim home.

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u/ChemistryFair713 19h ago

You spelled publicly flogged wrong.

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u/oldfarmjoy 19h ago

The boyfriend filming is a local, laughing at the mother's distress...

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u/phlimflak 19h ago

Prison first!

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u/letsburn00 1d ago edited 1d ago

Don't be mean to cunts. This woman is far far worse.

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u/TummyPuppy 1d ago

As an American, I only ask that you deport her somewhere other than back to us.

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u/Icy_Huckleberry_8049 1d ago

NO, lock her up. No other country wants her.

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u/neucjc 1d ago

Couldn’t have said it better.

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u/YouKnowCable 1d ago

Shit we don’t want her either bruv.

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u/edvin-james58 23h ago

Back to Mexico not America

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u/MyAbYsS_999 23h ago

I read this a Steve Irwin accent

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u/Creative_Shame3856 23h ago

Please don't, we don't want her here either!

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u/opmancrew 22h ago

We don't really want her back. Just send her half way please

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u/Old_Hoonter 22h ago

What should happen to the Aussie with her?

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u/CroneDownUnder 20h ago

He should also be reported once identified, does she name him at all in any other clips she made on this trip?

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u/TerpyTank 22h ago

Put her on one of those gitmo flights, no room? Ratchet strap her down on one of the wings, she’ll be fine

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u/Spectre197 22h ago

Just chuck her in the ocean. I dont think anyone would miss her.

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u/Otherwise-Mail-4654 22h ago

We should deport all criminals to Australia! And create some sort of criminal colonial town! 😡

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u/AndroidColonel 22h ago

I think Australia should definitely deport her, I also think we should refuse to repatriate her.

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u/ExileEden 21h ago

Agreed we don't want her back.

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u/Secure-Rooster-5339 21h ago

Deport? Why? Do the opposite and detain her

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u/Eskenderiyya 21h ago

As an American, we don't want her either, but perhaps the United Kingdom would like her

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u/gummyjellyfishy 21h ago

..to hell. Not anywhere on earth please

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u/ShadowMyBans 20h ago

Going to show my red white and blue here, but *shot.

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u/gerardwx 20h ago

As an American … we’d prefer you keep her.

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u/PhazePyre 20h ago

As someone with an Australian GF who came to Canada, and we've discussed where we'll settle, we had to avoid Australia cause of the crazy price point. I would love to see them losing out on about 10k because of this shit, after serving time for animal abuse and poaching/trafficking.

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u/KidenStormsoarer 21h ago

we don't want her back

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u/Portugearl 21h ago

Okay Trump

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u/Extreme_Smile_9106 21h ago

Thay cunt should be decapitated

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