Pub has to ban two special guests: “with their long neck they take the toast out of your toaster”

The Australian Yaraka, a village in the middle of the outback, has only twelve inhabitants. However, the only local pub also suffers from annoying customers, although it is not the kind you would expect.

The only pub in remote Yaraka has been experiencing misbehavior for a whole week. Kevin and Carol, two regular cafe goers, stink and stain the floor. It got so bad that owner Chris Gimblett decided to ban the two from the establishment for good.

However, unlike a lot of typically annoying counter hangers, Gimblett the two shouldn't take the car keys or wake them up from a drunken whirl on the counter. Kevin and Carol are two emus. Where the duo used to entertain locals and tourists with their pranks and jokes, imagine: an emu comes to steal your egg from your barbecue grill, now the Yaraka Hotel has had enough of the two ostriches.

Last week the emus discovered that they could climb the steps to enter the cafe. Since they've mastered that trick, Carol is regularly behind the bar, serving Kevin the tables - including eating up leftovers. However, that's not to the liking of café boss Gimblett, who is mainly fed up with the beasts' feces.

As a solution, Gimblett hung a rope at the top of the stairs - which the emus has no idea about yet. A sign on the rope informs the emus that they are no longer welcome in the pub due to their bad behavior, and advises the other customers to put the rope back in place after entering. However, it is not certain whether the emus can read, Gimblett laughs.

“When emus are startled, they run ahead, but keep looking back. That way they don't see where they are going and this is how chaos can arise, ”Gimblett told AP news agency. "They bump into everything."

The residents of the neighboring trailer park have also met Kevin and Carol extensively. "They are real feeding machines," says Gimblett. “They put their heads through the door and take your long nest to get your toast from the toaster. When you leave a bag of coffee, they drink the entire bag without spilling. ”

Kevin and Carol are the only emus in Yakara. In 2018, a resident rescued and hatched eight emu eggs from an abandoned nest using an electric blanket. Six emus left the region in search of a life partner, except Kevin and Carol, who will now also have to look for another bar. Ahhh, pathetic, hihi.

In this Happy Hour, we will of course call people who have had their birthday or experienced something. The Cover Original this time is the song "Sign o'the Times" . After this item we have contact with Ellen Bommeljé for her part "Happy with the Library on the IJssel". This time it will be about the writer Stefan Hertmans with his book "War and Turpentine" . Stefan Hertmans (Ghent, Belgium, March 31, 1951) is a Belgian writer, poet and essayist. In 1995 he received the Triennial Prize from the Flemish Community for the collection of poems "Music for the crossing" (1995). He received the Flemish Community Prize (1995) and the Paul Snoek Prize (1996) for "Visits". His collections of poetry have been nominated twice for the VSB poetry prize, "Music for the crossing" (1995) and "Goya as a dog" (2000). He received the Maurice Gilliam Prize for the latter collection.

In 2016 he was the author of the Poetry Gift "Take and Read" and published his own anthology of his poems about love "An image of you". Hertmans' most successful prose books include the novel "Naar Merelbeke" (1994, nomination Libris Literature Prize) and the travel bundle "Cities" (1998, nomination Generale Bankprijs). The novel "Stolen clouds" from 1988 was awarded the Multatuli Prize and the novel in stories "As on the first day" with the F. Bordewijk Prize. After his switch to De Bezige Bij, the poetry collection "Kaneelvingers" (2005), collected poems were published under the title "Music for the crossing". "Poems 1975-2005" (2006), and the collection of essays "The silence of tragedy" (2007) and the novel "The hidden tissue" (2008). His critically acclaimed novel "War and Turpentine" was published in August 2013. For this novel, he was awarded the AKO Literature Prize, the Flemish Culture Prize for Letters, the Prize Readers' Jury Golden Book Owl, De Inktaap 2016 and nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2017. More than 250,000 copies have been sold and the book is now published in twenty-four languages. His most recent and critically acclaimed novel "De convert" was published in 2016.

In September 2017, Hertmans published an extremely current, oppressive and poetic text about the sister of a suicide bomber Antigone in Molenbeek. In 2018, the entire text was brought to the theater in a series of performances. In September 2020, "De opgang", a masterfully described startling war story and a bitter wedding drama.

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Source: Original article (Dutch)