Letters to the editor: Roos a danger; Bath Street opportunity; No coal-fired stations; and Reaction to Eraring ash dam

Updated August 7 2019 - 2:56pm, first published 2:30pm
LAWN BUFFET: Kangaroos in the grounds of Morisset Hospital. Reader Steven Schreiber argues a local over-population of roos is a problem. Picture: Phillip Hearne
LAWN BUFFET: Kangaroos in the grounds of Morisset Hospital. Reader Steven Schreiber argues a local over-population of roos is a problem. Picture: Phillip Hearne

Roos a danger to humans

WITH respect to the people who are willing to respond at all hours of the night to save wildlife hit by vehicles ("Spike in roo strikes", Lakes Mail, July 18), there is a roo problem in this area. It's time for a major cull. Travel 10 minutes out of any CBD in this country and roos are in plague proportions. If tourists want to see roos they should go to a petting zoo or out west. But make sure they are told to get a hotel before the sun goes down. A roo strike can be fatal to humans or total a car. There are millions of them in country regions.

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