now where’s that dingo?
of course i’m referring to that movie with meryl streep where she proclaimed “the dingo ate my baby” in the movie a cry in the dark about missing baby azaria chamberlain. american tourist jean barnard would have been happy to have had a dingo to whisk away the toddler that she claimed screamed so loud in her ear that the three year old loud speaker made her ears bleed and caused permanent damage. according to the story in time magazine, barnard sued qantas for negligence and failing to protect passengers. of the incident, settled out of court, qantas said “Plaintiff’s injuries, if any, were caused by the arbitrary and volitional act of a three-year-old child. Flight attendants cannot predict when children aboard an aircraft are about to scream. There is no evidence that the child was screaming in the terminal, or on board the aircraft prior to the particular scream which allegedly caused the damage.”
barnard has no love for this kid, she said “The pain was so excruciating that I didn’t even know I was deaf” and in emails she is said to have written “I guess we are simply fortunate that my eardrum was exploding and I was swallowing blood…Had it not been for that, I would have dragged that kid out of his mother’s arms and stomped him to death.”
i’m sure she meant that in the nicest of ways.
[time, photo via djabonillojr.2008, azaria chamberlain story]
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