Don’t you hate it when you get pests in your yard that you just can’t get rid of. So do the people of Australia. Especially when the pests are feral camels.

Apparently, camels were brought to Australia back in the day because of their obviously usefulness in crossing the outback. However, SUVs are even MORE useful for crossing the outback, so all the camels were set free. Now there are more than a million of them running loose, destroying the Australian eco-system.

But it’s not just the eco-system they’re busting up: thirsty camels will go after any source of water they can find, up to and including busting “pipes and air conditioning units off of walls, and smash[ing] up toilet systems”. Beware the camels!

Link via Sara, who had me at “feral camels”.