Day 3 of 30

Day 3:  Billy Pompodor

Billy Pompodor has been riding ookiis in the Northern Territory for the past two decades. The beasts were first introduced into the region to reduce the number of camels that had been running around in herds kicking up all the red dust with their soft-padded feet. So they put four ookiis into shipping containers at the Port of Hakata in Japan, carried them in horse-trailers over the Simpson Desert, and dumped them in a place so hot and dry that even the spinifex grass that grew there seemed miserable. The four ookiis did not assimilate well. They sat sweating and screaming for three weeks. They looked at the camels, and the camels looked back at them, and everything went on as it as always been. NO GETTING OVER THIS HUMP - FAILURE TOO BIG TO CONTROL - OOKIIS SCARED CHOOKIES the headlines read. Public pressure forced the Federal Government to abort the plan, Japan would not take the ookkis back for fear they would contaminate its own native herd, and Billy Pompodor was given the task of running a theme park which included an ookii gift shop, cafe and twice daily displays of ookii riding.