{"id":89,"date":"2005-04-11T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2015-07-26T18:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T07:25:37","slug":"that-camel-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/04\/11\/that-camel-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"That Camel Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given my interest in big mascots, kitsch and otherwise, of course my attention was grabbed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/National\/Bag-handler-took-my-camel-suit\/2005\/04\/07\/1112815671754.html\">the camel costume story<\/a> a few days ago. A man travelling from Sydney to Melbourne on a Qantas flight checked in luggage which included both a camel and a crocodile costume. Twenty minutes later he saw a baggage handler wearing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/ffximage\/2005\/04\/08\/camel_outfit_narrowweb__200x298.jpg\">head<\/a> of his camel suit, driving to and fro on the tarmac. Apart from the usual concerns one might have about interference with one&#8217;s private belongs and security, the story has wider implications at the moment because of suspicions that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/worldtoday\/content\/2005\/s1334404.htm\">Schapelle Corby<\/a> is an innocent victim of domestic drug running, where baggage handlers might be involved.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few other links to pictures:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ffximage\/2005\/04\/08\/costume_ent-lead__200x285,0.jpg\">Camel and crocodile picture<\/a> (via The Sydney Morning Herald, photo Northern Territory Tourist Commission)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecouriermail.news.com.au\/common\/imagedata\/0,1658,433281,00.jpg\">Camel head face-on close-up<\/a> (via The Courier Mail)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/National\/From-tarmac-to-turf-the-camel-gets-back-to-work\/2005\/04\/10\/1113071854778.html\">Report and picture of the characters in action<\/a> at the gig they were on the way to, promoting (for the Northern Territory Tourist Commission) the Bulldogs-Carlton AFL game at Marrara Oval, Darwin, to be played onJune 18.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas has launched a full inquiry, the baggage handler has been sacked and the airline has reimbursed the owner for dry-cleaning the camel&#8217;s head. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttc.com.au\/\">Northern Territory Tourist Commission<\/a> can&#8217;t be too unhappy. The unforseen advantages kind of remind me of those in Arlo Guthrie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120410172458\/http:\/\/www.fortunecity.com\/tinpan\/parton\/2\/alice.html\">Alice&#8217;s Restaurant<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I didn&#8217;t get nothin&#8217;. I had to pay fifty dollars and<br \/>\npick up the garbage&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given my interest in big mascots, kitsch and otherwise, of course my attention was grabbed by the camel costume story a few days ago. A man travelling from Sydney to Melbourne on a Qantas flight checked in luggage which included both a camel and a crocodile costume. Twenty minutes later he saw a baggage handler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,14],"tags":[223,221,1354,179,222],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-alices-restaurant","tag-camel-costume","tag-news","tag-puppetry-puppets","tag-qantas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-1r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}