"A coroner on Friday opened Australia's fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation's history: the 1980 death of a 9-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the Australian Outback."
—Yes. 32 years later. Also this quote by the father is very upsetting! "Since the loss of Azaria I have had an abiding fear and paranoia about safety around dingoes. They send a shudder up my spine. It is a hell I have to endure." Gah! Well, sure. (Pictured: a dingo baby.)
Friday, February 24, 2012
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It's not the dingo's fault it had a Hankering for Azaria.
@petejayhawk reaction to pun: groening
I want a dingo baby.
And now I'll be doing my Sam Neill/Meryl Streep Australian Accent From That Movie all day long.
Or at least until I click the link and become extremely sad for this family who have to keep revisiting this.
@City_Dater BBC carried the story this morning and I woke to Aussie lady doing an incredible Meryl impression.
Wow wow wow, so what you're saying is that joke was too soon? Shame.
I used to work with a woman named Marissa who would scream that Meryl Streep line at wholly inappropriate moments. It would be a Monday at, like, two in the afternoon and the entire office would hear the mournful, earsplitting cry "The dingo's got my baaaby!" I miss Marissa dearly.
Filled under Cultural Ephemera I Learned About From Seinfeld.
The Guardian's slug for this was "dingo-baby-inquest-number-four."
@stuffisthings Also, the lawyer's name is Rex Wild.