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The good burghers of Wangaratta in rural Victoria are battling to reclaim their town from a nasty "hairy panic" attack which has seen their homes engulfed by an invading army of massed tumbleweed. According to 7 News, residents' homes have been smothered by the wandering seed heads of Panicum effusum, aka hairy panic - a …

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        "> And afterwards you have...

        a town to rebuild. Brilliant"

        and whats wrong with that? Its called job creation, and most Oz towns need a bit of rebuilding

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Paging Mr. Rumpelstiltskin... paging Mr. Rumpelstiltskin...

    // Paris as she's nearly a golden-haired, miller's daughter.

  2. Winkypop Silver badge

    Poor Dorothy!

    Where's Captain Feathersword?

  3. Camilla Smythe
    IT Angle

    It's the precursor to The Blob!!1!1

    Burn IT, Burn IT NOW!11!... before IT becomes IOT Aware. We're doomed, doomed I tell Ye!

  4. Prst. V.Jeltz Silver badge

    Wangaratta

    Why is it you can pick any town name in Oz ,and you'd know it was Oz from the sond.

    Its as if they took all those vowels saved from abrieviating things like afternoon - Avo , and dumped them into the town names

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Wangaratta

      The name Wangaratta was given by colonial surveyor Thomas Wedge in 1848 after the "Wangaratta" cattle station, the name of which is believed to have been derived from an indigenous language and meaning "nesting place of cormorants" or "meeting of the waters"

      - Ooroo

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Hairy Panic

    Sounds more like the title of a seventies porn flick.

  6. MeRp
    IT Angle

    I know I'm a bit late, but, for those of you wondering what the IT angle is: I work in IT and I regularly encounter tumbleweeds (Russian Thistle/Wild West type) caught on my car or in one of the trees in my front yard. So, there is your link to IT.

    1. Oengus

      IBM

      Where's the IT Angle?

      IBM used to have a manufacturing facility in Wangaratta...

  7. JeffyPoooh
    Pint

    Nobody made the connection yet?

    50 comments and nobody's yet made the connection?

    Star Trek, 'The Trouble with Tribbles'.

    Google it and you'll see.

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