The great emu war in 1932

This not actually how the battle look like in the great emu war,
I just made this up because I think it look cool

This war is so humiliating yet funny I just have to blog about it.

It all started after the end of world war 1. The government awarded some lands to the soldiers so they can farm and continue with their life as a civilians. However, in 1932 an “army” of emus had come, eating their corps and destroying their farmland.

So begin, the great emu war has...

Two regiments of soldiers equipted with machine guns and 10,000 round of ammunition are sent to fight the emus “invation force” which was made of about 20,000 emus. A couple of tactics was used to defeat the emus including:

• Chasing them off using a truck with machine guns mounted over it
• Gathering the emus into a traps and slaughter them

Unfortunately, the machine guns truck and mass slaughtering traps can’t out match the emus speed and their “guerrilla tactics”. Those tactics fail to annihilate the emus forces.

After a few fail attempts to fight off the emus,  a Western Australian representative finally told the Parliament that the emus had won the war. The conclusion was probably made due to the fact that it is a little non-economic to continue the fight.

Before someone start to accuse me of making this up, I would like to provide some links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
• http://mentalfloss.com/article/56602/great-emu-war-1932