When Marcia sent this link, to me, I didn't buy it at first. I thought it was an April Fool's joke, but upon further review, it appears that there really is a man in New Zealand who claims he was raped by a wombat and that the experience caused him to start speaking "Australian."
Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka on South Island, rang police on February 11 to say he was being raped by the slow moving Australian marsupial at his home, The Nelson Mail reported.
He rang back soon afterwards to say he was withdrawing his complaint against the wombat. "Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know," he told police in the second call.
Not surprisingly, alcohol was involved.
