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[–]WanderingPixie 57 points58 points ago

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It's from the Black Saturday fires of February/March 2009. This image became a world-wide symbol of the fires.

The CFA member is David Tree and the koala was dubbed "Sam" (later "Samantha", when it was discovered she was a girl).

Sadly, Sam is no longer with us. (Source: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/news/black-saturdays-sam-the-koala-preserved-in-museum/story-fn32891l-1225819025644).

Thanks for the post, fart_lover. Haven't seen this pic for a couple of years. :)

[–]lukasbradley 2 points3 points ago

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Somehow stuffing her and putting her in a museum undermines the emotional connection of the image. Very strange to me. When he dies, are we going to do the same?

[–]einsfurmich 2 points3 points ago

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I'v already got a spot in the corner for him.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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Thank you for the information.

[–]Explogo 2 points3 points ago

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The event has now been turned into a bronze sculpture to commemorate the role volunteer firefighters played in the Black Saturday fires.

This is a short article on the statue.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Then the statue was vandalized because people from his home town thought he was using money from that photograph for his own needs rather than donating it back to the victims...which was untrue but the towns folk thought otherwise.

[–]yawningangel 1 point2 points ago

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Was nice to see a little good come out of what happened..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmG5kQBsOpg&feature=related

[–]qwibber -1 points0 points ago

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Actually it occured before Black Saturday during back burning initiated by the country fire authority.

[–]reon-_ 0 points1 point ago

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you gunna back that up in anyway?

[–]Arinen 2 points3 points ago

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[–]YardenGarden 121 points122 points ago

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This heartbreaking image brought to you by fart_lover_5000.

[–]euphoric_barley 14 points15 points ago

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Firemen are fucking awesome.

[–]herpichj 3 points4 points ago

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koalas are fucking awesome

[–]BFSkinner 0 points1 point ago

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Actually, they're cranky little shits.

[–]Crumps_brother 0 points1 point ago

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Maybe it's gasoline?

[–]XshibumiX 16 points17 points ago

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"Oh finally a fireman with the good taste to bring me bottled water to drink! Your coworkers have been trying to push cheap tap water on me for the last hour and I'm like 'Helloooo? What do I look like? Go give that dishwater to the peasant wallabies. They'll drink anything.' {slurp slurp PTOOOOO! } THIS ISN'T FIJI WATER!"

[–]Osiris32 10 points11 points ago

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I will be in my trailer and am NOT coming out until I get the right water!! AND SOME FINGER SANDWICHES!!

[–]XshibumiX 5 points6 points ago

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"Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-WHOA! Who! The Hell! BURNED DOWN MY TRAILER?!?!"

[–]Arinen 6 points7 points ago

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[–]reon-_ 12 points13 points ago

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TIL: dropbears will spare you, if paid a satisfactory tithe.

[–]kazoodude 1 point2 points ago

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That is a koala. A dropbear spares no one.

[–]hamkitteh 2 points3 points ago

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Wow that just made my day a little better

[–]argh_minecraft 2 points3 points ago

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Restored a little bit of my faith in human kind.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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This image seems to contradict the notion that Koala's are nasty and ill-tempered. Or at least this one isn't.

[–]Arinen 2 points3 points ago

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Only when you disturb them. You can usually get pretty close as long as you don't try to touch them or they feel threatened. This was directly after a massive bushfire, so this koala was dehydrated and weak and more interested in the water than anything else.

[–]ethraax 0 points1 point ago

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Here comes an 's'...

[–]matessim 2 points3 points ago

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It looks like some guy helping a very old lady.

[–]Burned_Kitties 2 points3 points ago

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I've just found the nicest picture on the internet

[–]Cxizent 4 points5 points ago

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Why would he bother? It won't hydrate it, the EU said so.

[–]Andrebatman 0 points1 point ago

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what? if it can drink it can hydrate. Survived a few days before dying, im sure that has nothing to do with drinking water

[–]feeeeebs 1 point2 points ago

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The EU just passed a bill saying that bottled water companies (and other drink companies? not sure) can't legally put anything on their products that state that drinking water can prevent dehydration. Which is bogus.

[–]ethraax 0 points1 point ago

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That still seems odd. Imagine if you bought a bag of rice and on the side it said "Eating rice can prevent hunger." It actually makes sense to prevent such labeling, because it doesn't actually provide any additional information, and only makes the bags of rice that don't explicitly state that look worse by comparison.

I've honestly never seen a bottle of water ever state "Drinking water can prevent dehydration". Then again, I don't typically drink bottled water.

[–]feeeeebs 0 points1 point ago

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It is a little odd, sure, but spending time on it seems like such a waste of government time. Surely there are other, way more important issues, for the EU to be focusing on that have NOTHING to do with whether or not water can prevent dehydration and companies' decisions to state that on their products.

[–]ethraax 0 points1 point ago

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While I agree that there are many, many more important policies to be made, you have to remember that when it comes to large governmental bodies, latency is much greater than concurrency. By that, I mean that a certain policy can't just be pushed through, ignoring all else. That would result in lots of downtime, since not every member of the body is active for every stage of policy creation. As a result, it's better to push many policies at once.

So while I think their time is better spent elsewhere (as you do), I wouldn't hold passing this against them.

[–]itsjeffreywayne 1 point2 points ago

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Wasn't there several photoshops of this in which the koala is getting booze or something? My memory is shit but I seem to recall that koala getting drunk.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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no

[–]charlieab 1 point2 points ago

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the dude will go home and have steak for dinner

[–]herpichj 1 point2 points ago

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the best part is he is holding her hand

[–]donac 1 point2 points ago

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I love that the fireman is holding her little koala hand! Sweet!

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Isn't that from the fires a long time ago?

Dare I say..... repost?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Unknown, I just found it then. Thought it was a great pic.

[–]CCSS 2 points3 points ago

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..and that's why all Australians have Chlamydia

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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The koal gave it away.

[–]mjklin 0 points1 point ago

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I'm the snuggler. I snuggle you.

[–]Stereotypical_INTJ 0 points1 point ago

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Spoiler warning: it died.

[–]TimesLikeThese 0 points1 point ago

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Little does he know there's actually a drop bear above him.

[–]Lafklownlaf -1 points0 points ago

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Some faith in humanity has been restored.

[–]marchingprinter -3 points-2 points ago

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I can't upvote this enough