I was at that very campground a year later to the day. It was really a small tent city that included busloads of school groups (like mine), it was not camping in the way many consider it. There were toilet blocks and big kitchen areas and family groups that went every year at the same time. There were no dingoes to be seen there a year after (to the disgust of the regular visitors who complained a lot about the murdering religious nut ruining everything) when apparently they had always been part of the “experience” so someone believed the story initially well enough to cull them. While denying a dingo could do it everyone seemed to have a story of losing food or shoes or something from their tents to the critters which seemed odd but hell, I was 16, infanticide by religious nut was a much better story.
I remember my dad making jokes about hoping the dingoes had grown when signing the cheque. I had a whole routine on the topic myself. I am glad the times have changed enough for the majority of us to feel shame and accept the new verdict as the correct one and regret how long it took.
The line from the Seinfeld episode was a reference to the 1988 movie A Cry in The Dark (Evil Angels in Australia and New Zealand.) The movie was about the case being discussed in this thread. I’m pretty sure the movie has already been mentioned but I didn’t want to go back and read the entire thread again.
I thought about posting something about this myself. Now we have an instance of dingos not merely attacking a small child but attacking and very seriously injuring a grown man.
Although: backpacker on Fraser Island wanders away from his group at night and can’t find his way back and falls asleep on the ground. Anyone else thinking “probably completely shitfaced”?
