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    Default A Dingo's got my baby - 2019

    Jesus, this would be frightening
    That would have been moments away from a certain death

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    So, when are the police going to arrest them and lock them up for this? Lindy Chamberlain.....anyone?
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    Bloody hell, they were so lucky
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    Quote Originally Posted by oceanboy View Post
    Bloody hell, they were so lucky

    Lucky indeed.........if they had not wrestled their baby back, they would not only have lost their child, but would also have something along the lines of this to look forward to:





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    Quote Originally Posted by Thala Dan View Post
    Lucky indeed.........if they had not wrestled their baby back, they would not only have lost their child, but would also have something along the lines of this to look forward to:


    The whole episode is an indictment of media and public obsession with sensationalist bullsh!t that does nothing but ruin lives.

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    A chronological record of a country slowly losing its mind.
    Great statement that. Something that I am sad to say we have never learned from and are destined to repeat as we move into a world of intolerant and violent left influenced do-gooder social media....
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    When did Dingoes learn to open doors on a Campervan or were the occupants totally stupid and leave the doors open?
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    Quote Originally Posted by eaglem View Post
    When did Dingoes learn to open doors on a Campervan or were the occupants totally stupid and leave the doors open?
    In the article i posted, there was a flap under the door the dingo could push through, it was a canvas flap or something, but able to be pushed passed.
    The door was closed according to other reports
    Sounds strange i know.... Likely a typical annex arrangement??

    The dingoes were believed to have crawled underneath a canvas flap over the doorway and taken the boy as he slept.
    Either way, just shows how cunning and brazen dingos can be
    Especially when in a pack

    The child would have been ripped apart once the rest of the pack got hold.
    Ive seen what farm dogs do to foxes, ewww, its over very fast, bits go in every direction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eaglem View Post
    When did Dingoes learn to open doors on a Campervan or were the occupants totally stupid and leave the doors open?
    It's a bit of a conundrum, isn't it?

    I've noticed that some news services refer to a "campervan", whereas other news services refer to a "camper trailer".

    Poor sheltered little munchkins in the media most likely don't know the difference.

    My bet is that it was a camper trailer, with lots of nice flappy canvassy bits on the ground.......something the dingoes on Fraser Island are probably almost genetically programmed to find these days.

    Edit: ABC news referred to a "camper trailer" on the midday news today (Sat.).........terminology they have consistently used since this story broke.
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    Clueless media just being themselves..........clueless.
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    So is it just a coincident that this weeks "Anh's Brush With Fame" guest is a Lindy Chamberlain?
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    Interesting little snippet of (possibly) relevant information on the ABC (sorry, enf) news website today:

    Toddler undergoes surgery after dingoes attack on Fraser Island

    The dingoes snuck into the 14-month-old boy's camper trailer — which was parked outside the designated camping areas — just after midnight on Friday.
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    He said the 15-kilogram dogs may not seem like much to some people, but they are "very capable predators, probably the most serious ones we've got in Australia".

    "You don't make it to the top of the food chain by being stupid or incapable," he said. (How the hell did Homo Sapiens get there then????)

    He said it was not unusual for dingoes to get into tents, eskies or camper trailers, but they usually take a loaf of bread.

    "But to be that bold or confident to take the boy is certainly concerning," he said.

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    Even if the door is shut, they can open some.
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    Dingos are capable of doing anything for food , just cos they look weak or shy doesnt mean that they are. Ive seen them eat everything from a goanna to crabs and dead fish on the beach.
    There are a few fenced camping areas on Fraser but good luck trying to get one at Easter.

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    I find it interesting.... And i am very thankful the child wasn't killed.

    But lets for a minute consider it was taken away and eaten, because it wasn't far off that happening.
    Can you imagine the uproar for culling of dingos on Fraser now

    It would be a media circus all over again
    let alone if there was no trace and the clothing wasn't found until weeks later

    Who was going to believe a dingo went inside a closed door hey
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    If the kid was taken and eaten, the parents would be facing the same debarcle of Justice as the Chamberlains did all those years back. No doubt the finger would be pointed at them and even if forensics proved there was a Dingo and no charges were laid with the parents, there would always be innuendo and their lives would be finished too.

    I'll bet Lindy is sitting back somewhere now saying. " See, I told you it was a dingo! NOW do you believe me?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by george65 View Post
    If the kid was taken and eaten, the parents would be facing the same debarcle of Justice as the Chamberlains did all those years back. No doubt the finger would be pointed at them and even if forensics proved there was a Dingo and no charges were laid with the parents, there would always be innuendo and their lives would be finished too.
    Whipped up by a concerned media circus

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    jeez this is a bit full on:| agreed with above^^

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