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Rubbish Collection at Arapiles Tuesday, 27 July 2004, HEX :
' ... dishevelled climbers with backsides torn from trousers reinforced local speculation that all climbers had tapped into the dole to sustain a senseless existence of drug-induced debauchery. Understandably, this was viewed as a lack of respect for the local community... Retaining a firm grip on reality held little comfort as the mohawked inhabitants of ' the Pines ' thrashed wildly in the mud, blood and beer to the throbbing pulse of the Dead Kennedys... all manner of unpleasantness and the odd local illness have been attributed to climbers--- the latter being along the lines of "it's those bloody climbers, they bring back those weird diseases from overseas !"... The fact that we escaped being rounded up and shot by enraged , white-hooded locals brandishing burning crosses and screaming "death to the weird !!!" , astounds me to this day...'
(Glenn Robbins , 1995)
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Soooooooooooooo --- the next time some friendly-visiting-Euro,e.g. asks you to go and do a route (ah-hem) with them , explain that the reason you are wearing surgical-gloves while climbing, is to protect the environment from etc,etc,etc ...
Hepatightrz is probably of much more concern than HIVAIDS ...
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