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accident at Bunny Bucket 5-Jan-2009 At 11:01:28 AM Onsight

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On 5/01/2009 DaCrux wrote:
>can this thread be locked so that people can't publish articles such as
>this garbage:
>http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,27574,24872356-5006009,00.html

That article is a disgrace, full of misinformation and the proposerous proposal to regulate climbing is a disgusting effort to sensationalise this very sad accident.

At the end of the article they acknowledge that the climbers were probably not on the Bunny Bucket Buttress, even so, they post the topo of Bunny Bucket Buttress and talk about that route as if the accident occurred on that route.

Let me repeat for any journalists out there reading this thread: it is a fact that the climbers were NOT on Bunny Bucket Buttress when the accident occurred. This information comes to me first hand. Maybe spend you time getting your facts straight rather than proposing regulation of something you clearly know nothing about.

>can this thread be locked
How would that help? The journalist has got there information from elsewhere. Even the police don't seem to be able to tell the media all the facts about the accident.