Heh. I had a personal run-in with the Ozzie intervention this afternoon (Saturday). Five Australian troops (they were definitely soldiers, not police, were in army fatigues, carrying big assault rifles) pulled up at my front gate in a pickup. Only two of them got out of the car though, and since I was in the yard at the time, they talked to me.
It seems that they've noticed that we had fresh gravel strewn over our compound (because we have heavy machinery moving in and out all the time and they tear up the earth) and were interested in buying some gravel. They said it was for fixing up the potholes in the roads here. So I sent them to our sister company from which we get our gravel.
Still, with our high fencing, and the fact that our front gate is actually a side gate into a rather narrow lane (we keep the real front gate permanently closed for security reasons), the only way they could have known the ground inside our compound is covered with gravel was yesterday's chopper.
So maybe their real reason for visiting was to scope us out on thr ground?
Re: OT : Australian intervention in Solomon Islands
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