Sydney looks like a Mad Max movie!

Today the folks on Sydney, Australia got themselves an honest to goodness Red Dawn!

SYDNEY (Sept. 23) -- Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years blanketed the heavily populated east coast Wednesday in a cloud of red Outback grit, nearly closed the country's largest airport and left millions of people coughing and sputtering in the streets.
No one was hurt as a result of the pall that swept in overnight, bringing an eerie orange dawn to Sydney, but ambulance services reported a spike in emergency calls from people with breathing difficulties, and police warned drivers to take it easy on the roads.
Dust clouds blowing east from Australia's dry interior — parched even further by the worst drought on record — covered dozens of towns and cities in two states as strong winds snatched up tons of topsoil, threw it high into the sky and carried it hundreds of miles (kilometers).

Oh, I can hear Tina Turner singing "We don't need another hero!"

Photos by Jeff Dugan (AP) / Michelle Post (Reuters)

Hey, wait a minute...this is not Sydney, Australia...

A tale of wrong direction and mischief...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Dutchman and his grandson boarded a flight to Sydney, looking forward to visiting sunny Australia, but ended up in a much chillier Sydney -- in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Joannes Rutten, 71, and his 15-year-old grandson Nick booked the trip through a Dutch travel agency with plans to visit family living in Wollongong and Tallong, south of Sydney, according to local newspaper the Illawarra Mercury.

They set out from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport with Air Canada on Saturday but instead of arriving to views of the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Opera House, they touched down at Sydney in Cape Breton Island, off Canada's north east coast -- more than 17,000 kms (10,000 miles) away from their intended destination.

Air Canada organized hotel rooms in the wrong Sydney, a former mining town with high unemployment and a population of about 26,000, until they could arrange flights on to the right Sydney, which boasts sun-kissed beaches and 4 million people.

They finally arrived in Australia on Wednesday.

"I think it was quite an adventure for the 15-year-old. They're not seasoned travelers. Joannes was absolutely exhausted when he arrived," Rutten's cousin, Yvonne Wallace, from Wollongong, told the newspaper.

Clare MacDougall, who works for Air Canada, was at Sydney Airport (Nova Scotia) to meet the aircraft.

"When the door opened, the flight attendant said: "You're not going to believe it but we have two people who thought they were en route to Sydney, Australia,"" she told the Cape Breton Post newspaper.

"They arrived with no Canadian money -- they had all Australian money."

No one from Air Canada was immediately available to comment.

It is not the first time travelers have mixed up the Sydneys.

In August 2002, British tourists Raeoul Sebastian and Emma Nunn from London spent their holiday in Nova Scotia after thinking they were flying to Australia.

Last year, Monique Rozanes Torres Aguero from Argentina flew into the wrong Sydney for her vacation but decided to stay after befriending a local woman at the airport, according to the Cape Breton Post.

So there you go kiddies. When asking for tickets to Sydney, say Australia. If not you'll end up in Canada, Hey!

Signs that Australia is the new Nazi Germany!

First, there was the case of the guy that reposted the viral "Baby swinging" video on LiveLeak and was arrested for child abuse (even thou he had nothing to do with the video).

Now comes this case...

An appeal judge in Australia has ruled that an animation depicting well-known cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pornography.

The internet cartoon featured characters from the Simpsons TV series. The central issue in the case was whether a cartoon character could depict a real person.

Judge Michael Adams decided that it could, and found a man from Sydney guilty of possessing child pornography on his computer…

Justice Michael Adams said the purpose of anti-child pornography legislation was to stop sexual exploitation and child abuse where images of “real” children were depicted…

He ruled that the animated cartoon could “fuel demand for material that does involve the abuse of children,” and therefore upheld the conviction for child pornography.

WTF!!!
Have Australians gone crazy?
Whats wrong with this people???

>>>REALITY CHECK<<<
CARTOONS ARE NOT REAL!!!!
I say again, for all of you mates out there, putting a shrimp on the barbie...
CARTOONS ARE NOT REAL!!!!
>>>END TRANSMISSION<<<

How can unreal persons commit real crimes???
This is as stupid as saying that animals commit crimes!
Yet, this was the law in the Middle Ages!!!!
It took centuries for reason to win out!!!

Yes, Virginia, this is the beginning of Thought Crimes! (Read George Orwell's "1984" for more info!)

SIEG HEIL AUSTRALIA!!!

You used to be cool...Mad Max, Men at Work, Crocodile Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter.

Now you are just another FACIST country!

Beware of Dropping Koalas, Mate!

In Australia, a 3 year old male koala was struck by a car and survived seven miles of high intensity driving with his head and arm pinned to the grill of the car. This sounds like something out of a Mad Max movie! Or a Steve Irwin special! Things in Australia are actually funnier than in the rest of the world.

The BBC has that story here!