Sam

We’ve had ourselves yet another premature celebrity death, only this time it’s a damn sight sadder than the passing of Michael Jackson.

Sam the koala, mascot of hope during the Victorian bush fires and cherished marsupial here at the Shoddy Blog, was put down on Thursday due to inoperable abdominal cysts brought on by a case of Chlamydia.

A workmate was telling me he heard of the death on the radio, and that the presenter had suggested the koala caught Chlamydia off the water bottle the Fireman had given her. Rest assured this is not the case, urogenital chlamydiosis affects up to 50 percent of the koala population and in Sam’s case the infection had become so severe the vets would not be able to manage the pain.

Judging by “Shock Jock” Kyle Sandilands’ handling of a 14 year old girl’s rape ordeal (which had happened to her when she was 12), I’m unsurprised that there’s a radio presenter out there suggesting our local volunteer fireman are out in the scrub infecting the wild life with sexually transmitted diseases.

Fuck em. I find commercial radio unbearable anyway, hopefully the stations burn down in the next bush fire.



RIP Sam.