Nearly dingo bait

FORGET about maneating dingoes, poisonous death adders and sharks that can swallow people whole – British backpacker Scott Osborne reckons the most deadly things on Fraser Island are four-wheel-drives. The 25-year-old camper woke up in sand dunes on Monday morning to find a Toyota Land Cruiser on top of him. Except he wasn’t on the sand dunes he was asleep on a track.

“There was about 10 of us and we decided to have a couple of drinks in the sand dunes looking at the stars and then a couple of us decided to stay on and try and stay awake to watch the sunrise,” Mr Osborne recalled. Soon after watching the sunrise, Mr Osborne fell asleep beside a female friend from Germany. She escaped unscathed. He said they thought they were lying on a footpath, not a 4WD track.

I have sympathy for the man but getting drunk and falling asleep on a track or anything that looks remotely like a track in a strange invironment is not smart.