DOB IN A DOBBER HOTLINE A "HUGE SUCCESS"
January 8th 2007 20:52
So claimed a spokesperson for ANAL (Aussie Narks Against Laggers) despite the telephone system crashing within an hour of opening late yesterday as thousands of angry Australians squealed on each other like pigs in a playground.
Government officials were quick to brand ANAL as being un-Australian claiming this sort of behaviour was more common in European countries such as Greece or Germany.
FRUSTRATED!
But ANAL organisers hit back stating that the act of dobbing was un-Australian and dobbing on dobbers was very much Australian.
ANAL volunteer and emo-blogger, David My David, believes ANAL is not digging a hole for itself by ratting on the rats.
"We're not brown nosers", he said, "Quite the opposite really. We believe in a fair go for ALL Australians. We've got a Dob In A Hoon Hotline, Dob In A Water Waster Hotline so why not a Dob In A Dobber Hotline?"
NO REGRETS!
"There is nothing sneaky about ANAL. It's not like we're poking our heads in the back door. We've been very open about what we are trying to achieve here."
"Australians have had enough!"
It is estimated that an Australian gets lagged on every 15 seconds. Just 5 years ago the average time per dob was two minutes and 10 seconds.
Wearing a balaclava despite the 35 degree heat David said he wasn't afraid to stand by his comments and was prepared to snitch on anybody who said he was but asked photographers to refrain from taking any close ups.
"We estimate the Hotline received over 50,000 calls yesterday before the meltdown. There are a lot of angry hoons out there who may have been just a tad zealous with the garden hose."
But it wasn't just average Aussies who were giving ANAL a go yesterday.
Hundreds of Celebrity Dobbers were turning to ANAL for some much needed relief.
RINGING ENDORSEMENTS!
"Paris rang several times, Tony Barber called.....but he was just looking for work. Oh yeah, some guy called Bush reckoned Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." laughed David.
Government officials were quick to brand ANAL as being un-Australian claiming this sort of behaviour was more common in European countries such as Greece or Germany.
FRUSTRATED!
But ANAL organisers hit back stating that the act of dobbing was un-Australian and dobbing on dobbers was very much Australian.
ANAL volunteer and emo-blogger, David My David, believes ANAL is not digging a hole for itself by ratting on the rats.
"We're not brown nosers", he said, "Quite the opposite really. We believe in a fair go for ALL Australians. We've got a Dob In A Hoon Hotline, Dob In A Water Waster Hotline so why not a Dob In A Dobber Hotline?"
NO REGRETS!
"There is nothing sneaky about ANAL. It's not like we're poking our heads in the back door. We've been very open about what we are trying to achieve here."
* Water hole, loop hole or glory hole?
"Australians have had enough!"
It is estimated that an Australian gets lagged on every 15 seconds. Just 5 years ago the average time per dob was two minutes and 10 seconds.
* Sticking it to the man
Wearing a balaclava despite the 35 degree heat David said he wasn't afraid to stand by his comments and was prepared to snitch on anybody who said he was but asked photographers to refrain from taking any close ups.
* Drips?
"We estimate the Hotline received over 50,000 calls yesterday before the meltdown. There are a lot of angry hoons out there who may have been just a tad zealous with the garden hose."
But it wasn't just average Aussies who were giving ANAL a go yesterday.
Hundreds of Celebrity Dobbers were turning to ANAL for some much needed relief.
RINGING ENDORSEMENTS!
"Paris rang several times, Tony Barber called.....but he was just looking for work. Oh yeah, some guy called Bush reckoned Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." laughed David.
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Comment by KylieW
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Considering that the government is now recommending that if you're using water from your rain water tank to water the garden that you put up a sign so that your neighbours know (after a Narre Warren man received death threats from neighbours because they incorrectly assumed he was illegally watering his lawn), I actually think that we really could use a Dob in a Dobber hotline!! hehehe.
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January 14, 2007
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MARGARET Norriss is living in fear. The retired teacher is so scared of the emergence of water vigilantes that she doesn't dare hose her front garden, even though she has been using a rainwater tank for the past nine years.
"The whole thing is turning the community against one another," Ms Norriss told The Sunday Age. "It's becoming like Big Brother and I'm starting to feel very uncomfortable."
Although the State Government will not reveal until next month the number of calls it has received to the new Dob in a Water Cheat line, it restricted to a trickle water to three households for breaches committed between 2003 and 2006.
Like an increasing number of Melburnians, Ms Norriss is terrified of being wrongly accused of breaking the new water restrictions. Terrified at the thought of a knock on the door from the "water police".
She has hung a sign on her front fence declaring only non-town water is in use. But that hasn't stopped the abuse and glares of people as they slow to pass her Northcote home.
"Sometimes human nature is wonderful and people pull together in the most amazing ways, but I believe we are moving into a situation where people are getting quite nasty, and I'm really starting to get paranoid," Ms Norriss said.
She is not alone. Garden envy is rife and threatening to spill over to open hostility as the State Government asks the community to anonymously "dob in a water cheat".
While Melburnians bemoan the death of historic elm trees lining the Yarra and despair over the state of their yards, a drive around suburban back streets reveals a vast array of thriving gardens, complete with lush, green lawns.
For those adhering to the new restrictions and using grey, rain or bore water to maintain their treasured gardens, the only defence from the prying eyes of neighbours is the signs that are springing up in front yards from the leafy, expansive homes of Toorak to the workers' cottages of Thornbury and Williamstown.
Even Deputy Premier and Water Minister John Thwaites, who is also Minister for Communities, has recognised the problem and suggested that people hang home-made signs in their yards.
Monash University academic David Dunstan fears the growing hysteria about water is threatening our sense of community as "neighbour is pitted against neighbour".
"I think it is most unhealthy and potentially dangerous," he said, adding that neighbourhood trust and goodwill was being replaced with "a climate of suspicion".