Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.

The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.

All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.

Negative Sterotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates[.]

Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.

"There's young men, on the weekends, they will throw beer bottles at you and yell out 'bogan' or 'squaw' or 'whore,'" said Deanne Hupfield, who grew up in Thunder Bay.

Is that the same blue truck that is throwing rocks out the passenger window and screaming at natives calling them bogans walking on the street?

If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.

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