Posted on 06/11/2012 6:26:55 PM PDT by Perdogg
A dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.
Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom on Tuesday that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria’s mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.
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I’ve owned dingos. I think this is the correct ruling.
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I guess the dingo really did eat her baby.
Well I'll be darned.
This subject came up a few times in conversations I’ve had with Australians. As best I could make out the things which got the mother suspected and convicted was her cold demeanor in interviews after the tragedy and during the subsequent trial, and a general prejudice against the Seventh day Adventist Church which is viewed by some as a strange cult. But most important was a howling press storm that convicted her in the tabloids. The bastards who did that to sell more papers should have been horse whipped. I’m sure there are still people in Oz who believe the child was murdered. There is no reasoning with them.
People here in eastern Pa. don’t know how opportunistic coyotes are. They’ve just become common in the suburbs and I expect something bad to happen soon. I know of one very dense neighborhood where the coyotes are not afraid of people and eat the neighborhood cats. They’ve chased people back in to their houses. The local animal control says “they’re harmless, leave them alone, and they’ll leave you alone”.
Boo!
We have an Australian Cattle Dog and one of their foundation breeds is dingo. No doubt - when our granddaughter was little, he wanted to eat her. Then she got big enough to throw a frisbee and he fell in love. Now she bosses him around and he’s in heaven. As he ages, he’s getting a bit senile though and I worry about him when he’s around strangers. He “heels” them. He drove an intruder out of the house once and then hid under a table shaking with fear. Strange dog. Smart and wonderful but strange.
My dingos were fine until they became old. Then they began to revert back to wild behavior. Fortunately (!) they passed away from natural causes before it became an issue.
Well, that’s an example of swift justice NOT!
Perhaps Obama should stop blaming Bush and have Press Secretary Jay Carney announce that dingos ate the economy.
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