At 11:56 5/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
>With all the Aussies on this list, I figured that it was more on-topic than
>some recent posts...
>

A couple of things Andy

>
>*** Update: Rodney 'Crocodile' Ansell killed in shootout
>
>DARWIN, Australia (AP) - A rugged Australian whose experiences
>inspired the lead character in the movie "Crocodile Dundee" was
>killed in a gun battle after shooting a police officer to death,
>officials said Wednesday. Police named the dead gunman as Rodney
>William Ansell, 44, of Urapunga ranch

<<<  RANCH??? >>>> Here the correct name is STATION


 in the Roper River region of
>the Northern Territory. Actor Paul Hogan based the lead role in the
>1986 Hollywood hit on Ansell, who in the late 1970s survived for two
>months alone in the Outback after becoming stranded

Two months is that all! Laciter survived for nearly 3. The locals survived
for their entire life


>. The story of
>Ansell, a skilled bushman able to live off the land, made news and
>inspired the Crocodile Dundee character, script co-author Ken Shadie
>said. See
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560566686-e89
>

I find it quite strainge that he was shoot, being a man of the Bush one
would think that he would have dissapeared (Generally most people wonder
off into the desert and never are seen again) This leads me to think that
he may have been under the infulance and for the better term of "Peoples
safety" he was shoot.


There has not been much noise about this around here, but then again I stay
clear of the news <G>



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Dennis