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There's something out there
Sep 19, 2008, 5:02 GMT
Sydney - There's something stalking the suburbs of Sydney and it's not joblessness, homelessness or another of the nasty fellow travellers of the global financial crisis.
The 4 million people of Sydney were warned Friday that their children could be gobbled by leopards, panthers, cougars or other big cats that have escaped from zoos.
'I don't think it's necessarily an urban myth,' Nathan Rees, the premier of New South Wales, said when commenting on reports that exotic animals were prowling the fringes of Australia's biggest city.
Rees, who is just two weeks into the job, was immediately accused of a scaremongering to distract attention from the scandals plaguing his government.
'It's easy for all of us to dismiss these things,' he said, 'but if we're actually wrong then there is an altogether different set of scenarios. Of particular concern is if there're little kids out there and if there is one of these things.'
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