Kidnapping in Pukatja

Funny story about a truck driver, a boy and a community.

Truck driver (white) comes into town with a little boy (anangu - black). Community is concerned. Boy must be lost and driver has picked him up on his way to town, it can be the only reason why an anangu boy is in white man's care. Community asks truck driver where he picked up boy. Driver replies "he is mine, he has been my foster child for 4 years."

It seems everyone is happy...until sometime later driver realises boy is missing.

Several people from community still insisting boy must be lost, as this could be the only explaination, had taken him away to be looked after til his family could be found.

So police had to be called to go a get him back from the sorry camp he was taken to. The truck driver eventually got him back, but he says, 'yah they only care about this little kid when he is with a white man, not when he is left by himself and starving to death. How sad!

Aahhhh WHAT??

So last week, I was getting ready to close up the store when one of the customers at the till said "Billy there's a snake over there!!!" So I go, "WHAT? WHERE?!" So she tells me it is in the back caged area, by the bikes. Then I tell her "I don't care and I don't want to know about it, cause I am not going to go ANYWHERE!!! near it!" Then I think...the back door in that area is not sealed off properly at the bottom so a snake could very well slither in. YIKES!!!

So I go over towards the caged bit to see. But I can't see the snake, so I ask where is the snake(thinking if I can't see it, it could be closer than I really want!!!)So she tells me, there it is, by the fooseball game. Then I see it!

Here's a photo of the snake we found in the store...

He may be small (like a earthworm after a good rain) but believe it or not this baby brown(mulga) snake could still kill you! Gotta love this country!