Looks like little Charlie's seen his last Christmas. "It's no use, Daniel, he's lost all interest in life. "What's that? What's that boy? Is it raining sausages? Is it raining sausages, boy?" "THEY'RE TOO BIG TO PLAY MY TINY TEETH! OH THE IRONY!!"Ģ2) Dog uninterested that it's raining sausages at Christmas But what happens when Osama Bin Laden comes back, lights up a bunch of doobs and starts thinking about horses? Hmm? Who's laughing then? Me, that's who."Ģ3) Man with keyboard for teeth freaks out about massive hands "Sure, no-one is searching for this photo right now. Let's get one of the bunny taking his own life, just in case."Ģ4) Osama Bin Laden smoking weed and thinking about a horse, some Pepsi and a football "That's great, we've got two photos of the bunny looking threatening. You've got to think ahead when you're in the stock photo game." 25) Bunny in business suit wielding shotgun, holding up bank, killing self "Sure it doesn't seem like people will use this stock photo much NOW, but mark my words - in thirty years' time, when people are wearing lycra and banging sweetcorn left, right and centre I am going to milk this cash cow. These are some f**king weird photos that photographers thought people would be searching for.Ģ6) Woman from future gazes lovingly at sweetcorn This story originally ran in 2016 it has been updated for 2022.Stock photos are photos taken by photographers which they think people (mainly journalists and businesses) will want to use at some point. This story was updated to include more information on the Great Emu War and the film inspired by it. As of 2021, an action-comedy film inspired by this unexpected chapter in Australian history was in the works. The birds remain plentiful in the areas outside of Perth to this day, and their triumph may be destined for the big screen. The human soldiers fired their Lewis guns with vigor, but it was the emus that came out victorious in the Great Emu War of 1932. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.” The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. Serventy: “The machine-gunners’ dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu War was summarized thusly by Australian ornithologist D.L. Human soldiers rest and regroup during their battle with the emus. Even a newsreel from the era prematurely announcing a human victory describes the tall, long-necked birds as “an advancing army with keen eyesight…the enemy watching event through their periscopes raised up over heads of corn.” The Australian media quickly came to see the enormous birds as foes too crafty for mere human soldiers. A few days later, however, a second encounter with about 1,000 birds turned into clear victory for the emus when a machine gun jammed. The battle began in early November 1932, when the soldiers encountered a lock of about 50 emus and succeeded in killing several before the birds scattered. History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo Soldier Ray Owens poses with a dead emu during the war. The farmers relayed their concerns to the government, which called upon a deputation of ex-soldiers-many now farmers-from the first World War, who requested the use of machine guns to fight off the emus.
The birds had been protected as a native species until 1922, but now that they were classified as “vermin,” all bets were off. What did the emus do to deserve armed combat? Western Australian farmers had been facing hard times with their crops following the Great Depression, and their difficulties increased tenfold with the arrival of some 20,000 emus migrating inland during their breeding season. Lewis machine guns were widely used during the first World War-and during the Great Emu War. Soldiers with machine guns were deployed to fight off the flightless birds. It sounds like a joke, but the Great Emu War of Western Australia was real. Here is a sentence that is at once absurd and unsurprising: in 1932, Australia declared war on emus.
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