Just cop the tip from a Walkabout Creek local
BUSH cop Des Hansson was an overnight global sensation even before his knife-and-gun wielding cameo for #BringBackDundee.
“Come on down ... come to Papa!’’ Senior Constable Hansson can be heard yelling in his YouTube video, viewed by millions.
His typically Aussie, unbridled glee as he filmed water as it cut through dust for the first time in four years on the drought-stricken McKinlay River is the stuff of legend.
He drops a few excited Fbombs before joyfully adding: “Here she comes ... wow, I can’t believe how lucky I am!”
The burly, straight-talking bush copper runs the one-man police station in McKinlay – the home of Walkabout Creek Hotel in the original Crocodile Dundee film – in remote northwest Queensland.
“It is an iconic movie. I particularly support a new Dundee because my town and pub is where they filmed the first blockbuster,’’ Senior Constable Hansson said.
“The bush is suffering. Anything we can do is worthwhile.’’
Filmed in a short clip in the desolate, empty main street of historic McKinlay township, Snr Constable Hansson both hilariously and chillingly reprises the famous “That’s not a knife” line from Dundee.
Like many in the Outback, the police officer-cum-comic-actor-with-a-touch-of-Wolf-Creek, told how he owned knives and firearms as “tools of the trade”.
He said the Dundee original was not politically correct, but captured the quintessential essence of our way of life in the Outback.
“We’re sick of all the PC bull***t. That’s why we need to #BringBackDundee”.