'maybe the dingo ate your baby' line

I too saw that episode last night and I didn't know where the reference was from either, but my girlfriend swears it comes from a movie in which a group of people are in Australia, camping near a famous rock (her words, not mine), supposedly people go to Australia to see this rock. And she leaves her baby in the tent. Later she hears it crying and sees a Dingo leaving the area around the tent with what looked like a piece of the baby's jacket in its mouth. Well, the people with her accuse her of making up the story about the dingo, while she swears it is true. Anyway, there is a man in the scene who says the line "Maybe the Dingo ate your baby".

Now I don't know if this is altogether correct, but that's what I'm told.

I believe the line comes from a Meryl Streep movie but I can't remember the titile.

Logan's Run wrote:

Gee, Ayers Rock IS only a national landmark in Australia....and the Lindy Chamberlain case DID only go on for 10 years....the movie you're referring to is Evil Angels, with Meryl Streep and Sam somebody....Cheers, Nicky :)

I think the movie is A Cry in the Dark with Meryl Streep & Sam Neill ( from Jurassic Park).

Joel

Thats right, it was a meryl Streep movie.

In article , [email] (Scott Jerabek) wrote:

I always thought it had something to do with that Meryl Streep movie, A Cry In The Dark. But I haven't seen the film, so I'm just guessing.

Eb

The dingo ate your baby' - This line does indeed refer to an incident that happened somewhere in the early eighties in Australia, when a baby from a couple that was camping out near famous Ayers Rock - an Australian landmark like Mt. Rushmore - disappeared. The mother claimed that she witnessed how a dingo ran off with her baby at night. The baby couldn't be found. The mother was accused to have killed the baby herself, presumably as a sacrifice because she was a member of some relegious group. The mother was indeed convicted, but released some years later when the clothes of the baby and later the remains of the child were found. Evidence showed that the baby was indeed killed by an animal. Meryl Streep starred in the motion picture 'A cry in the dark', that was made after this try incident. So actually, the joke isn't very tasteful.

dat'z TOO ez...

Tasteful ??? SEINFELD ????

In article ,

	Yes, it is from the movie 'Cry in the Dark', with Meryl
	Streep. In the film, Streep plays an Australian woman
	who is on trial for the murder of her young child. The
	woman contends that she and her husband (I think Sam Neil
	in the film?) had no part in the disappearance and death
	of her child. She contended that perhaps a dingo snuck in
	to their shanty and snatched the baby from the bassinette
	(sp?) and carried it off into the desert, while the rest
	of the family slept.

	Apparently those shanty homes that the people in the outback
	live in are pretty wide open with no real windows or doors?

	I forget how the movie goes, but it is based on an actual
	case that occured in Australia.

On 18 Sep 1996, Scott Jerabek wrote:

OK here we go.

Back in the early 80's there was a famous court case down here in Australia involving a woman named Lindy Chamberlin. She was campng near Ayres Rock (a rather large boulder,and I mean rather large, in the middle of Australia) when her baby disappeared. She was tried for the murder of the baby, but she claimed that a dingo took her baby. This case went on for months and months and months and years and years untils he was finally acquitted of the murder.

I'm not sure about this movie that you all refer to - maybe it's a movie based on Chamberlin's expereinces?? Maybe somone else could help here.

However, that's what happened in real life.

Rick Adamson [email] Queensland University of Technology [email] Brisbane, Australia

"Life is just one damned thing after another" - Frank Ward O'Malley

Yes,

The line does refer to the Lindy Chamberlain case or, more specifically, to the movie "A Cry in the Dark" made about the case starring Sam Neill and Meryl Streep.