• A dingo did take your baby!
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[quote]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 today 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. Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987. A smiling Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, flanked by her son Aidan, told the waiting media outside a Darwin court that Australia was a “dangerous country” and her story had now been vindicated. "We are relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga," she said. "No longer will Australia be able to say the dingoes are not dangerous and will only attack if provoked." "We live in a beautiful country but it is dangerous and we'd ask all Australians to be aware of this and take appropriate precautions." She also thanked lawyer Stuart Tipple for his "unrelenting persistence, without which we wouldn't have been able to fight so long." “I’m here to tell you, you can get justice even when you think all is lost,” her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain said. “This has been a terrifying battle," he said. "Bitter at times, but now some healing and a chance to put our daughter's spirit to rest." "I'm here to tell you, you can get justice even when you think all is lost," he said. Mr Chamberlain has picked up Azaria's death certificate, which was changed as a result of the decision. The certificate's previous cause of death was stated as unknown; now it reads the death was "as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo". "I cannot express strongly enough how important it is to pursue a just cause, even when it seems to be a mission impossible," he said. During the inquest both the counsel assisting the coroner, Rex Wild, QC, and the lawyer representing Azaria's parents, Stuart Tipple, agreed a dingo was the most likely cause of the baby's death. The finding means Ms Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is known after remarrying, and her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain have finally won recognition that a dingo killed their child. The inquest was the fourth into the death of Azaria since the nine-week-old child disappeared on a camping trip. In 1988, the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal overturned all convictions against the Chamberlains but a coronial inquest in 1995 delivered an open verdict. In the final moments of handing down her finding, an emotional Ms Morris apologised to the Chamberlain family. Ms Morris said she was satisfied the evidence was "adequate, clear, cogent and exact and excluded all other reasons possible". She told the court: "(Azaria) died at Uluru on 17th August 1980 as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo." She told them an amended death certificate was available immediately to them. Read more: [url]http://www.news.com.au/national/dingo-took-azaria-coroner-finds/story-e6frfkvr-1226392715293#ixzz1xZYSpMpM[/url] [/quote] A bit of background; Basic this ladies' kid was eaten by dingos in the outback, the ensuing media frenzy lead to her being charged and convicted with the kids murder. A few years later someone found some tattered baby clothes near the site and she was released. Finally the Coroner has ruled that the kid was killed by dingos. I think it's stupid that people think dingos are not aggressive. They're essentially wild (and more vicious) dogs, and dogs kill children and sometimes adults all the time
White dingos look fucking majestic [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Rare_shot_of_white_dingo.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;36299226]White dingos look fucking majestic [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Rare_shot_of_white_dingo.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Til the motherfucker shits on your floor.
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;36299226]White dingos look fucking majestic [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Rare_shot_of_white_dingo.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] holy shit that doesn't even look like a dingo, just a regular (albeit thin) dog
Australian wildlife is like that.
[QUOTE=Pelican;36299415]holy shit that doesn't even look like a dingo, just a regular (albeit thin) dog[/QUOTE] Dingos are though to have been brought to Australia tens of thousands of years ago by aborigines, some then escaped and became dingos
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;36299226]White dingos look fucking majestic [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Rare_shot_of_white_dingo.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Looks exactly like my dog, expect with longer legs.
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;36299376]Til the motherfucker shits on your floor.[/QUOTE] Til the motherfucker eats your child. But really, Dingos can be vicious. Went camping once on Rainbow Beach (Queenslanders would know where that is) Dingos were known to live on the island. They can get angry if you get near and charge a little to scare you off, then people run, causing the dingos to give chase.
Well that wraps that up
Wild dogs here are huge.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCTZF61ey0[/media]
I've noticed on Fraser Island, if you just appear aggressive, most dingos will just run away.
'Bout time.
[QUOTE=SlickBlade;36299437]They can get angry if you get near and charge a little to scare you off, then people run, causing the dingos to give chase.[/QUOTE] Yeah a lot of animals have a strong drive to chase moving objects down, unless they actually lunge for you its best to just back down slowly without looking them in the eyes.
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