Thread: DOC hit their target of 10,000 tahr.

Originally Posted by Mr Browning

I wonder what the cost to the tax payer has been so far.

3 good men....priceless and cant be replaced....
1 helicoptor??? $500,000
at 2 rounds per animal 20,000 rounds at about $0.50 per so $10,000
avgas /helicoptor hire ??? 100 animals per hour = 100 hours??? at what ??? $800 per hr??? $80,000

wages of guys doing the shooting and number crunchers in orifaces 6 months so $30,000 each x ??6 people $180,000

so somewhere around 300,000 without taking helicoptor into account so $30 per animal????

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

3 good men....priceless and cant be replaced....
1 helicoptor??? $500,000
at 2 rounds per animal 20,000 rounds at about $0.50 per so $10,000
avgas /helicoptor hire ??? 100 animals per hour = 100 hours??? at what ??? $800 per hr??? $80,000

wages of guys doing the shooting and number crunchers in orifaces 6 months so $30,000 each x ??6 people $180,000

so somewhere around 300,000 without taking helicoptor into account so $30 per animal????

Helicopter was not DOC property, nor was pilot DOC employee, so they don't carry cost of that.

As for the wasted meat... well, we're rich, we've got loads of food in NZ and so we can just leave it to rot.



If the image upsets you, the poor boy survived, before and after photos here.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Helicopter was not DOC property, nor was pilot DOC employee, so they don't carry cost of that.

They will be invoiced for costs incurred - Its called Hire. If the Pilot was under contract even as a contractor and not an employee, they are still responsible for what happens when they are paying him to do the job. We are responsible for subbies on our site even though they are not our employees. So correct, DoC did not own the chopper or employ the pilot, but the chopper and pilot was being paid for by DoC and will fall under the cost of the operation.