FAIR DINKUM YARNS FROM DOWNUNDER #1- "THE GREAT MELBOURNE DOME RUPTURE AND GINORMOUS HAIRY-ARSED CRAWLY INVASION OF 1894."
(BEST VIEWED LARGE AND FROM A SAFE DISTANCE!)
G'day.
As you know, Australia has large uranium reserves.
From the earliest times exposure to nuclear radiation has resulted in the creation of all kinds of mutant megafauna. From the 400 pound feral drop-bear to the 150 foot long greater great white shark these humungous horrors have proved a considerable obstacle to progress in Australia.
Before colonial occupation in the 18th century it was established that the only practical way to protect citizens from marauding B.B.Bs (Bloody Big Beasties) was to construct wrought iron framed, reinforced glass domes over all population centres.
Later, of course, as heavy industrialisation developed, it became possible for well armed vermin control expeditions to leave the safe harbours of the cities in steam powered, armoured land ironclads. Hydraulic powered gatling guns, Greek Fire throwers and rotating batteries of auto-fly swats were used to reduce the numbers of the ponderous pests.
As often happens, once the immediate pressure of everyday danger had passed, standards loosened, city watches were relaxed, and the domes were allowed to fall into disrepair.
Inevitably, on the 12th of October, 1894, a wandering V.L.A (Very Large Arachnid) breached the City Of Melbourne's ill-maintained dome and, ironically, succeeded in consuming the entire City Council (Including the slack-arsed dome maintenance chief clerk) before being driven off by concentrated field gun fire from the hastily mustered Melba Militia.
You wouldn't read about it for quids!
That's because Her Majesty's Royal Victorian censors at the time thought it best for public order that the entire incident be kept out of print.
The incident was officially de-classified in 1984, allowing surviving documents and photographs to be published for the first time.
FAIR DINKUM YARNS FROM DOWNUNDER #1- "THE GREAT MELBOURNE DOME RUPTURE AND GINORMOUS HAIRY-ARSED CRAWLY INVASION OF 1894."
(BEST VIEWED LARGE AND FROM A SAFE DISTANCE!)
G'day.
As you know, Australia has large uranium reserves.
From the earliest times exposure to nuclear radiation has resulted in the creation of all kinds of mutant megafauna. From the 400 pound feral drop-bear to the 150 foot long greater great white shark these humungous horrors have proved a considerable obstacle to progress in Australia.
Before colonial occupation in the 18th century it was established that the only practical way to protect citizens from marauding B.B.Bs (Bloody Big Beasties) was to construct wrought iron framed, reinforced glass domes over all population centres.
Later, of course, as heavy industrialisation developed, it became possible for well armed vermin control expeditions to leave the safe harbours of the cities in steam powered, armoured land ironclads. Hydraulic powered gatling guns, Greek Fire throwers and rotating batteries of auto-fly swats were used to reduce the numbers of the ponderous pests.
As often happens, once the immediate pressure of everyday danger had passed, standards loosened, city watches were relaxed, and the domes were allowed to fall into disrepair.
Inevitably, on the 12th of October, 1894, a wandering V.L.A (Very Large Arachnid) breached the City Of Melbourne's ill-maintained dome and, ironically, succeeded in consuming the entire City Council (Including the slack-arsed dome maintenance chief clerk) before being driven off by concentrated field gun fire from the hastily mustered Melba Militia.
You wouldn't read about it for quids!
That's because Her Majesty's Royal Victorian censors at the time thought it best for public order that the entire incident be kept out of print.
The incident was officially de-classified in 1984, allowing surviving documents and photographs to be published for the first time.