Did a Dingo eat the baby?

I never knew where this came from but found this recent article and it discussed the whole history. Pretty interesting read.

Australia asks _ again: Did a dingo kill the baby?

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2012/02/20/australia-asks-_-again-did-a-dingo-kill-the-baby-2

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Dijya hear about the dyslexic dingo?

It ate an Azalea.

:lol:

This is not news. Now a story about a baby eating a dingo, THAT'S news!

:D

I think this whole thing is a waste of tax payer dollars.

The family has had 3 previous inquests plus a trial. When will it end? There is obviously not evidence to name a cause of death.

I just feel angry about this to be honest. This story took up a huge chunk of the news for about 10 years of my childhood and they're opening it up again? They've made countless doco's and even a telemovie about it all (which was really crap I have to say).

I'm so over it, and the family needs to move on too. Enough is enough.

Ali, sorry to dig it up again but I had never heard the original story and thought the line was just a clever statement. I was enlightened and interested.

ZenGum;797238 wrote:

Dijya hear about the dyslexic dingo?

It ate an Azalea.

I must be over-tired. I am totally not getting that. I mean I know it's meant to be funny, but I can't figure out why.

The babies name was Azaria

>>> baby's <<<

classicman;797435 wrote:

>>> baby's <<<

Don't mock the afflicted.

;)

Oooops, of course. Damn fingers acting independently again.

Merc's link wrote:

"The general public didn't want to believe it," says Anthea Gunn, curator at Australia's National Museum, home to a popular collection of Chamberlain memorabilia. "Because why would you? You want to believe those places are above reproach."

Another reason has to do with some crap about how once our brain decides something it is nearly impossible to get it the change its mind, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

cf: teh cellar

Lamplighter;797433 wrote:

The babies name was Azaria

Oooooooh. I guess I should read the article.

TheMercenary;797395 wrote:

Ali, sorry to dig it up again but I had never heard the original story and thought the line was just a clever statement. I was enlightened and interested.

You don't have to be sorry Merc. I've been bitching about it since I heard it on the news the other day. ;)

I'm actually impressed it made it to the international news...again.

It's now official.

A dingo ate the baby.

Now shut the fuck up. I don't want to hear another word from you Chamberlains or I'll feed you all to the fucking dingos.

Ali, I was in my early 20s when it happened, and yes, it did consume a lot of media time (but it was clearly feeding a public frenzy for the issue) and yes, there has been a lot of taxpayers' money spent on it already. All the same, if I'd been through what they (especially Lindy) went through, I'd be baying for more than just an inquest. For you non-Antipodeans: she spent years in prison (in godforsaken Darwin, to add to the misery, making family visits near impossible, not to mention the heat), gave birth to another daughter just after she went to prison and didn't get to be with her for another 4 years. I'm not convinced of any version of what happened (at the time I suspected one of their young sons may have done it by accident and she covered up and then stuck to it as it was too late to say "actually, he did it") but the forensic evidence has since been shown to be pretty dodgy, and the number of dingo attacks have been rising since then, with the increase in tourism, supporting her version. Assuming she *didn't* do it, how would you feel? Taxpayers' money is wasted on far worse things. E.g. the desal plant, near where we live, cost billions, in part from public money, and it was clearly a mistake from the start. Or political advertising. Or state funerals for just about anyone these days. As far as I know, the Chamberlains have never been compensated for the whole stuff up, so I reckon they deserve at least another inquest. If it results in an open finding again, then how it goes from there will be tricky.

Ooh, wrote that in the arvo, left it there, and just posted it now, then saw the decision has been made. Well, there you go!

My best friends baby was eaten by a dingo on 9/11...JERKS.

When I read the thread title under new posts, with joe's name under it, I read it as Did a regular Dingo eat the baby?

I was like...as opposed to Super Dingo?

Pay me no mind, I'm amusing myself. No, not abusing myself. Amusing.

The US has a similar sort of media-frenzy case that is still
knocking about in the news after about 16 years.

JonBenet Ramsey's brother was "exonerated" back then, and no one else agrees with me.
But with all the business about a note that was supposedly in the mother's handwriting,
the brother seemed to me to be a very likely candidate.
The mother has since died.

CBS News
September 29, 2010 10:04 AM

Break Emerging in JonBenet Ramsey Case?

CBS) An expert on the JonBenet murder case says his sources confirm reports
that investigators in Boulder, Colo. would like to speak again to her older brother, Burke Ramsey,
in case he saw something at the time that could help them connect some newly-surfaced dots now.

Burke was nine when his little sister, a 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant,
was slain in December 1996, in what went on to become one of the
most famous unsolved killings in recent times. He's now 23.

sandy, they were financial compensation for Lindy being wrongfully imprisoned. I don't know the figure, but I know it happened.

I personally believe this new finding is little more than a STFU from the courts to be honest because they just aren't going to stop, and there's no new evidence and what they had in the first place was dodgy anyway, so how can it possibly be a different finding? It's been mishandled all the way along, they were compensated. Now they've got what they wanted.

THE END! FFS IMO.

But what I want to know is, did the Dingo use a recipe posted in IOTD? And if so, should it hit the tip jar?

What I want to know is how the fucking dingo ate the baby but spat out the little wonder suit it was wearing all in one piece!

Everyone knows you peel 'em first..... :rolleyes:

Oh right. Silly me. Of course.

I disagree with Ali.

It is almost certain it was a dingo.

Lindy Chamberlain was stitched up by very dodgy cops. She has been compensated but not truly vindicated. We owe her that.

Dingos ARE dangerous to humans and this should be widely known.

A baby died and the correct cause of death should be established.

And it gave me one more chance to recycle the azalea joke.

Aliantha;797632 wrote:

What I want to know is how the fucking dingo ate the baby but spat out the little wonder suit it was wearing all in one piece!

If you really want to know, scroll down. Otherwise skip this.


























Mostly when a carnivore or whatever eats its prey they start at the softest part and work their way in. Usually, in the case of unclothed prey, they start at the throat or asshole and just start burrowing in. Perhaps this dingo did the same? I'm sure even soaked with blood a dingo knows there ain't much nutrition in footy pajamas.

Hard to say w/o seeing the recovered baby clothes. If they were pressed and on a hanger in a dry cleaner's bag and had a few spots of blood on it, then yeah, I'd say you should definitely find a new dry cleaner.

It was an all in one baby suit. You know the sort that clips up to the neck and all the way down to the toes just about?

It was found just about all in one piece. That's the bit I don't understand about a dingo doing the job.

ZenGum;797638 wrote:

I disagree with Ali.

It is almost certain it was a dingo.

Lindy Chamberlain was stitched up by very dodgy cops. She has been compensated but not truly vindicated. We owe her that.

Dingos ARE dangerous to humans and this should be widely known.

A baby died and the correct cause of death should be established.

And it gave me one more chance to recycle the azalea joke.

Zen, I'm not saying there wasn't a miscarriage of justice or anything like that, and I'm not saying it's not possible that a dingo did it, but the part about the jumpsuit is what gets me, as I've mentioned.

I wouldn't go hanging around with dingos. They're wild animals with sharp teeth, and I'm sure they're hungry at times.

I'm sure the cops at Ayers Rock had no idea what to do with this case. It's not too often they'd have had to deal with a murder. They probably knew just about everyone in their beat by name and address anyway, and the tourists would have generally have been no trouble, so yeah, I'm sure they had no clue how to handle the intense media coverage or how to conduct a proper investigation of the evidence or witnesses either.

What I am saying is, why must it go on and on. I don't believe they had new evidence to present other than the fact that there have been more dingo attacks in the years since 1980, simply because there are more people with no understanding of wild animals spending time in areas where wild animals live and getting into trouble.

I just think that's the problem really. People go into an environment which is dangerous and then wonder why someone gets hurt.

And that's just assuming that it really was a dingo and not one of the other equally unprovable theories still available.

I agree with Zengum. Even if there was compensation, it's normal for a parent to want the truth to come out about the death of their child. In this case, it does now seem like a dingo is likely to have done it.

As to the dingo "undressing" the baby, Ali, it was in several items of clothing, and these were found. I've seen my own dogs remove the fabric from toys to get to the (evil) stuffing inside it (who knows why) and if there is a hole they can pull it out through, they don't bother to tear it. One of the problems with the case is that so much of what we were told were "facts" (like the neat, folded baby outfit) was untrue, either due to rumour or the said dodgy cops.