If they don’t kill you, they may steal your baby.

And then you’re vilified only to be proven right. What a horrific thing that poor family went through

You know that’s a true story, right?

Lady lost a kid.

Tropic Thunder may have taught me that, but I’ll never not picture RDJ disguised as a dude playing another dude when I hear it.

What do you mean you people?

What do you mean you people!?

And the media and courts will ruin the next 20 years of your life as we harass you over your dead baby.

Meanwhile dipshits on the Internet laugh about your dead baby 30 years later.

Alright then, let’s extrapolate, 40 years?

In the year 2033
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today

Have you ever considered people make the joke because of Seinfeld and no inherent knowledge of the actual situation that took place in Australia?

Have you ever considered, even without contemporary context, you’re still making a joke about a real life baby being killed?

I came to the comments expecting Seinfeld references and am only just now learning it was a real thing.

Decades later authorities determined a dingo really ate the baby

If we don’t tell people not to make dead baby jokes, how are they going to find out?

I see it as the same as the saying “If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, goodnight” when referring to what to do when around bears. Yes it is comedic and yes it is referring to being mauled to death by a polar bear. Sure there’s an argument to be made about being insensitive to the victims of polar bear maulings but that’s not the purpose of the statement. “dingo ate my baby” is pretty clear cut on the meaning. Don’t leave your baby alone where it can be eaten by a dingo, some people will find that funny because it kind of is ridiculous and horrific that this actually happened.

Nobody has been thrown in jail and dragged through a media circus over a polar bear mauling. Lindy and Michael Chamberlain had their lives ruined after a traumatic loss. It’s not the same.

I had a dingo. RIP Lucy girl

Is that the dogs name or your child’s name?

I always wondered if Portuguese Podengos were brought back by explorers.

They aren’t, but I like my story better

Comes in three different sizes and two types of hair. There is a Podengo for everyone.

Mine is a medium short hair. Good mini wolf, almost fourteen now

Do you pet random dogs on the street? No? Then you won’t have any problems with Dingoes. Drop Bears on the other hand…

Fuck. A drop bear killed my uncle. Horrible creatures.

That’s sad, but it’s kinda his fault if he wasn’t carrying an umbrella 🤷

Umbrellas do nothing, I really wish they’d stop teaching that in schools, it’s why we have so many drop bear casualties every year.

The drop bears are really getting out of hand. Fuck the Emu war, we need a drop bear war. Drop bears aren’t a joke, millions of families suffer from drop bears every year.

This reminds me, I was once walking into a Melbourne Metro station, and the Aussie mate I was with had been spinning me some web of shit for a while, I finally lost it and loudly announced “LOOK, mate, I’m not gonna believe any of the SHIT that comes out of YOUR MOUTH ever since you tried to sell me on FUCKIN HOOP SNAKES” and a random commuter woman in earshot literally doubled over laughing.

What I love about hoop snakes is that they’re American, not Australian.

Sorry for your loss.

Even if they don’t kill you, they give you chlamydia.

A jackalope got my uncle-daddy Bubbafred, and a skunk ape chased my cousin Darlene. She had the ugliest baby later that year.

What? Of course I pet random dogs on the street. You don’t?

I mean, I ask first, if they’re with a human… if not, well…

Yes? Mostly if they’ll let me. You don’t?

One of my saddest days was waiting to cross a road and a car stopped Infront of me with it’s passenger window open and a big Labrador hopped up and was face to face with me.

I excitedly asked the owner if I could pet the dog, as it was literally delivered to my face and she said no like it was a weird request. Thats stuck with me for half a decade already.

I’m sorry for your loss. I will henceforth pet random dogs more often in your honour.

Devvo, bet the dog was sad about it too.

There are countries where all dogs have owners (mostly on the other side of the leach) and you are always supposed to ask the owners before you pet them.

And then there are countries blessed with really cute street dogs that tend to turn tummy up when you’re passing them. You’re supposed to pet those randomly.

And which do you think Australia is?

The kind with the cute doggies that let you pet them all the time?

Don’t ruin my hopes and dreams.

Communal care of stray dogs. Everybody is supposed to feed and pet them, and usually they crash at any random place.

My country was the type with packs of street dogs that you had to keep your distance from and that you saw on the news from time to time for mauling another passerby

Yeah, that’s the type OP is talking about.

Maybe these are those skinwalkers my Australian friend talks about…

Nah that’s not them, you’ll know a skinwalker when you see one.

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