Man said 'wombat rape' led to accent change

[emad]

By Nick Squires in Sydney


A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time.

Arthur Cradock, 48, from the South Island town of Motueka, called police last month to tell them he was being raped by the marsupial at his home and needed urgent assistance.

"I’ll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he’s pulled out. Apart from speaking Australian now, I’m pretty all right you know. I didn’t hurt my bum at all."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/27/wwombat127.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

[hobbit709]

1. Alcohol was involved sums it up.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. "found guilty of wasting police time" ... Ooooh. Hardcore felon material there. nt

[asthmaticeog]

3. I'm torn - rape is never funny, but wombats ALWAYS are.

[Ordr]

5. To paraphrase George Carlin:

"Some say that rape can never be funny. I say that's bullshit. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd."

[Wetzelbill]

4. I tried to think of something good to say

like a solid smartass quip, for example, but there is just too much material here to work with.

[LibertyLover]

6. I thought this was going to be a riff on the AOL story I read

last night about the guy in Stafford County who claimed that he had been raped by Big Foot as a child in New Hampshire and that was why he solicited a boy on the internet for sex. Oddly, the court didn't take that into consideration.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. I wonder if he was dressed provocatively

(kidding)

I hate how someone is dressed is brought up to excuse rape.

[Arugula Latte]

8. How have we as a society gone from Muskrat Love to Wombat Rape?

:cry:

[nomorenomore08]

9. Australia and New Zealand have different accents? Could've fooled me.

nt

[Lautremont]

10. They're also different countries!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

11. Yes they do n/t