Btw, watch for Gore to see the light on free trade and NAFTA now that Mrs. Clinton and Senator Moi-knee-han have decided for Bradley!
Tom
Bill Cochrane wrote:
> Here we go, the sad story of the "real" Crocodile Dundee.
>
> 05-Aug-99 08:26 pm Regular International
> DUNDEE CHARACTER A DRUG TAKING LONER WITH ENEMIES
>
> Darwin, Aug 5 AAP - The model for Crocodile Dundee turned out
> nothing like the larrikin character made famous in Paul Hogan's
> blockbuster film.
> Once a bushman hero, 44-year-old Rod Ansell had become a
> drug-taking loner with enemies, according to those who knew him.
> Ansell died this week in a gunfight with police after going on a
> shooting rampage the night before at a house south of Darwin.
> Why he attacked the house and then lurked in bushland off the
> Stuart Highway for 12 hours before shooting dead a well-loved
> policeman is still a mystery.
> And just how Ansell, who was barefoot and without a vehicle, got
> to the bushland of outer Darwin from his home 600km away at the
> Urapunga cattle station near the Gulf of Carpentaria is under police
> investigation.
> One thing is clear, Ansell was not popular in recent years.
> He was known as a skilled bushman and buffalo hunter who was
> Territorian of the Year in 1988 for being the inspiration behind
> Crocodile Dundee. But many were shocked that Ansell was the gunman
> who injured a civilian and fatally shot 38-year-old police sergeant
> Glen Huitson on Tuesday.
> Sgt Huitson was about to receive a bravery award for disarming a
> gunman who had threatened a busload of tourists in the Northern
> Territory earlier this year.
> Moments after killing Huitson at a roadblock on the Stuart
> Highway, 50km south of Darwin, Ansell, armed with a 12-gauge shotgun
> and a rifle, was shot dead by constable Jim O'Brien.
> Police said today they had not established whether Ansell was
> under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.
> But according to colleagues he was known as a drug taker.
> ``I knew he was on drugs,'' a fellow buffalo hunter told AAP
> today.
> It was a sad end to an adventurous life.
> When the excitement over the 1986 blockbuster film Crocodile
> Dundee subsided, Ansell was often in the media promoting the buffalo
> industry.
> He owned the Melaleuca Station and tried to turn it into a
> buffalo and cattle property but ran into debts and sold it to
> Paspaley Pearls.
> A conviction in 1992 for stealing 30 cattle valued at $A7200
> ($NZ8922) and assaulting station manager John Harrower tarnished an
> already dubious reputation.
> Station managers contacted by AAP said there was no love lost
> between him and members of the cattle and buffalo industry.
> Buffalo Industry Council chief executive Ian Baker said Ansell
> was never a member of the council.
> ``He was accused of stealing cattle from some of our members,''
> he said. He declined to comment further, because Ansell is survived
> by two sons.
> A fellow buffalo hunter, who did not want to be named, said
> Ansell liked his solitude.
> ``I knew him but we weren't close friends ... he got on really
> well with the Aborigines,'' he said.
> Ansell was the guest of the Aboriginal owners on the Urapunga
> cattle station where he was helping them to attempt to establish a
> tourism and cattle business.
> However, within the Northern Land Council, which owned the
> property in trust, there was concern that Ansell would be back to
> his old cattle duffing ways and rip off the traditional owners.
> And some doubted whether he really was the inspiration for
> Crocodile Dundee.
> Many say he was the only one who made that assertion, pointing to
> other Territory characters who had just as much right to the title
> ``the Real Crocodile Dundee''.
> There is also a question mark over whether he really was lost for
> two months on the Fitzmaurice River in 1977 -- the event which
> earned him the Crocodile Dundee publicity.
> Ansell co-wrote a book called To Fight the Wild about his
> experience and a documentary followed.
> Ken Shadie, who wrote Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John
> Cornell, saw a promotional interview with Ansell which inspired
> their bushman superstar film.
> But some say he was not lost at all, rather running a cannabis
> plantation and shooting crocodiles.
> <<<>>>
>
> ----------
> >From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> >Subject: Re: Who nOZe?
> >Date: Fri, Sep 17, 1999, 5:29 PM
> >
>
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Bill Cochrane wrote:
> >
> >> Probably doesnt mean much but the guy who Mick Dundee was modeled on was
> >> killed by the cops in OZ a while back in a shoot out after a spot of armed
> >> robbery.
> >
> > No shit! Do tell more. We Ameris didn't even know he was based on a real
> > life model (at least I didn't). (A URL would be fine, or just the guy's
> > real name, so I could search it.)
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > __________________________________________________________________________
> > Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com
> >
> >