After years of challenge in the courts, both parents were absolved of the crime, and a coroner found Azaria’s death was, in fact, the result of being eaten by a dingo.
How fucking awful. Your baby gets eaten by a wild animal, you get charged with murder, and then your trauma becomes an international joke for years.
Similar with the woman who spilled McDonald’s coffee on her lap and sued. International joke because of McDonald’s smear campaign, but it turned out their coffee was legitimately served too hot to cut costs.
The spilled coffee soaked through her clothes while she was sitting buckled in her car seatbelt and the coffee was so hot that her skin melted and her labia fused together 😱
She originally just asked them to pay for the medical expenses too. McDonald’s refused and ended up paying much more in legal expenses and what was awarded to the lady.
That’s the nature of many tragedies I’m afraid. Monty Python and The Holy Grail comes to mind where I recall it opening to the bubonic plague of people being thrown onto a cart with someone screaming “Bring out yer dead!” and the joke is someone tries to ‘bring out’ someone that’s still alive, insisting they’ll be dead soon.
I don’t think anyone really ascribes malice to the jokes, it’s just a way to cope through dark history.
How fucking awful. Your baby gets eaten by a wild animal, you get charged with murder, and then your trauma becomes an international joke for years.
Similar with the woman who spilled McDonald’s coffee on her lap and sued. International joke because of McDonald’s smear campaign, but it turned out their coffee was legitimately served too hot to cut costs.
The spilled coffee soaked through her clothes while she was sitting buckled in her car seatbelt and the coffee was so hot that her skin melted and her labia fused together 😱
She originally just asked them to pay for the medical expenses too. McDonald’s refused and ended up paying much more in legal expenses and what was awarded to the lady.
That’s the nature of many tragedies I’m afraid. Monty Python and The Holy Grail comes to mind where I recall it opening to the bubonic plague of people being thrown onto a cart with someone screaming “Bring out yer dead!” and the joke is someone tries to ‘bring out’ someone that’s still alive, insisting they’ll be dead soon.
I don’t think anyone really ascribes malice to the jokes, it’s just a way to cope through dark history.
The bubonic plague was a little further back in history.
If you want something more recent, I think something happened in 2001 but I can’t quite remember.
It was a global tragedy. I know a guy who had to walk through blood and bones looking for his brother.