Daily writing prompt

Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.

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Dezi Freeman was on the run for 216 days from Victoria Police before being killed.

It’s not easy for any individual to evade police for that long, let alone survive in Victorian wilderness all throughout that time.

The horrific incident was closely followed by Australia’s crypid community, with many cryptid researchers positing the same question: could Dezi Freeman have been a Yowie?

The short answer is no. We have compelling evidence to suggest that Dezi is not a yowie.

For one, yowies are staunch pacifists and do not commit violent crimes. Secondly, yowies are believed to be much hairier and taller than Dezi Freeman. Thirdly, yowies do not consider themselves sovereign citizens and are communalists (which we have previously explored).

However, if we refine the question to whether Dezi Freeman’s evasion of police may have links to yowie knowledge, we start to get a different picture.

YowieHub believes that yowies are key to creating a post-captalist society. What yowies offer to such conceptions is a harmony with sustainability, satiation, and communal consciousness.

To live like a yowie, is to have lived without leaving notacable impact on the environment (so much so that we begin to doubt their existence). When we apply these principles to the Porepunkah police shootings, we start to develop more nuanced interpretation.

So no, Dezi Freeman is not a yowie. But that doesn’t mean that yowies don’t exist.

In fact, his extended disappearance reconfirms that we haven’t found out everything there is to find in the Australian bush.