Dogs Eat Car in Australia

Keep an eye on your car - there are wild dogs about! Clayton Dwyer's girlfriend called him and told him to look at his car. The front bumper had been torn from the car and gnawed into bits. Dogs had even bitten into steel front panels.

Mr Dwyer found it hard to believe that wild dogs would do such a thing. He had seen the pack wandering around the neighborhood.

His girlfriend admitted to him that the dogs had attacked her car some months before. At first it was thought that someone had done the damage with a hammer. But panel beaters could make out teeth marks on torn parts of her car.

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Australia - Austria Mix Up is Ongoing

When Australians won medals at early Olympic Games they had the ignominy of turning toward the Austrian flag and listening to the Austrian national anthem.

The opposite thing does sometimes happen, however. When Austria was elected to the UN Security Council one of the votes was for Australia which was not standing for a place on the council.

Some have claimed that it was not a mistake or an accident, and that someone voted for Australia to embarrass Austria. Indeed, Austria only just fell over the line getting the required two third majority.

Apparently it is not Australians who get upset about the constant mistakes; it is Austrians. Tourist shops in Austria sell a T-shirt with the slogan "there are no kangaroos in Austria".

Even Americans make the mistake though, Which is surprising considering the closeness of the two countries. President George W. Bush thanked Australian Prime Minister John Howard for visiting his Austrian troops in Iraq.

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