Or just the claim that one was answering to somebody who was in no position to dispute that claim.
That average is highly skewed by the idiots who would try to shake a vending machine for any possible reason.
I got my ex in trouble in school by texting her info on this while she was supposed to be paying attention in class, causing her to start laughing.TIL about the Great Emu War of 1932 in which Australia waged "war" against their national bird, the emu ... and lost.
The Great Depression had hit Australian farmers hard, but to add insult to injury a flock of 20,000 Emus started eating farmers crops. The farmers took the perfectly reasonable step of calling in the assistance of the Australian military. Three soldiers were sent on the expedition with two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition. The Emus employed guerrilla tactics such as running away really quickly and out ranging the machine guns. After 6 days 2500 rounds had been fired and anywhere from 50 to 500 emus killed and became quite the scandal in the local press. The Australians suffered no casualties but one of the officers noted that
Later a second attempt at culling the emus was attempted with more success than the first. Over time the emu crisis was solved by improvements in fence technology.
Because an angry emu will eff you up. They're terrifying harbingers of death.
And I'm sure some people did eat them. Doesn't change the fact that they're hard to kill, and not many people had guns anyway. Besides, rural areas where they had access to emu meat were less likely to have food problems anyway. Except for the problems caused by emus eating crops.
In 1931, Perth's population was still under 100,000. An emu will feed about 10 people. That's a lot of people eating emus for several days straight.
