[BITList] CATTLE GUARDS - TRUE STORY

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Don't know if this is true, but is a good story anyway.
frank
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>         ***A TRUE STORY**
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>         cid:1.2280459407 at web161602.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
>         Cattle Guards
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>         **Australian government at work
>         **You will love this one, I haven't stopped laughing  For
>         those of you who have never travelled to the country , cattle
>         guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in
>         dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes
>         across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that
>         area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the
>         "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught
>         between the rails.
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>         In 2008,/Kevin Rudd/received and was reading a report that
>         there were over 10,000 cattle guards over main roads in NSW &
>         Queensland. Graziers had protested his proposed changes in
>         grazing policies, so he ordered the Minister to fire half of
>         the cattle guards immediately!!
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>         Before the Minister could respond and presumably try to
>         straighten him out, Minister for Employment/JULIA
>         GILLARD/****intervened with a request that before any cattle
>         guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.
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>         And****now she is****running the country.
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>         Passed on to you without further comment....
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