nah that’s crap I am and was friendly with a few 7th day folks, it was just so convenient and that was what stuck in my craw. I don’t know I just don’t see it.
More like red neck, some bogans are rich!
No not full blood but some half breeds, bloody unpredictable things.
Do I still think a dingo did it? Not sure TBH
It was convenient that a wild dog ate her child?
“I can’t be prejudiced against 7th Day Adventists, I am friendly w/ a few.” = “I can’t be a bigot, I have a black friend.”
You think it was ‘so convenient’ to accuse a dingo of killing their baby instead of what ‘inconvenience’ exactly?
sisu, have you ever heard of this thing called reason?
Yeah, but they did get Meryl Streep to play her in the movie, so she’s got that at least. 
Did she receive any compensation from the government?
The child in the article I linked to, 22 month old Kara Compton, was mauled in her own bed at 2:30 in the morning. This article briefly mentions the dog was “usually kept outside (…) but was found inside” on the morning of the attack. I heard through local gossip that it jumped in through a window but I can’t find a cite for that. Clearly the owners were in breach of the law that says dingos and dingo cross breeds should be kept in escape-proof enclosures, but this case certainly proves that simple vigilance isn’t enough. I think a reasonable person would assume a sleeping child was safe from a dog that was housed outdoors.
Native animals are all protected and dingoes aren’t in any danger as a result of this incident.
Having said that, what’s supposed to be the point of your second sentence? Are you suggesting that things are OK if they are a danger to children generally as long as they won’t harm children if they are watched continuously? Seriously?
I heard a Park Ranger say today in an interview that since the death of Azaria there have been no reports of attacks by dingoes.
Size is important to animals if a small child is next to an adult a dog will hesitate to attack the child specially if there is a big difference in size between the dog and the adult. However some animals just attack and forget the size of the other dog or human.
dingoes normally shy away from humans.
That’s patently false for the ranger to say! What about the Fraser Island attacks? Hereas well.
It was a ranger at the campsite where Azaria was taken
Yes there have been a number of dingo attacks - on children in particular - since Azaria was taken. That is one of the things that has I think been playing on people’s minds here in relation to the Azaria case: at the time dingo attacks on small children hadn’t happened much if at all and that was one of the things those who didn’t believe the Chamberlains’ story latched onto. When other small children were undoubtedly attacked, in recent years, there would have been a lot of Australians thinking about what this implied in relation to their doubts about the Chamberlains.
Careful that is close to Pit worthy.
All I was saying is that I don’t see them as any worse a cult than say Catholics, Muslims or Buddhists. Pull ya bloody head in..
yep, but we humans are not Spock and we have these funny things called emotions, hunches etc. I grew up in the middle of all this and I still feel strange thinking that a dingo took her baby. It is not based on reason but my feelings, I make no apologies.
Sisu,
O.K
But don’t you think after all this evidence, reason should trump emotion, however difficult it may be?
Yeah I get that a court found Lindy not guilty, I accept that.
But I still find the idea that a dingo took the baby as well a bit I don’t know iffy.
Why? There are well documented cases of dingoes killing a freaking nine year old boy and attacking a three year old. You’ve been given links. To say that a nine year old is much bigger and more able to defend himself than a nine week old baby like Azaria is a considerable understatement.
Other dogs attack and kill infants regularly (not commonly, but it is hardly rare).
Against that background why exactly would you think it implausible that a dingo would take a small baby?
I know you are playing the “it’s my emotional reaction not reason” card, but there comes a point where this is just a piss poor excuse for an unjustifiable position.
I believe the ranger likely meant that there have been no dingo attacks at that campsite/park since, not anywhere ever.
One of our dogs is a 95 pound German Shepard. She has a little stuffed teddy bear that she likes to carry around. For some reason, we started calling the toy her baby. My gf thought it would be funny to train her to shake the toy on command.
So, we tell her, “Shake the baby” and she does, violently. All in good fun, but it leaves some folks minorly aghast.
Which was the source of all the jokes I heard in America. “A ding-gow ite moi bye-bye!” became a running gag in itself. Not one of Streep’s better performances.