No one's talking about the SEA MONSTER who showed up in the Hamptons??!

[charlie and algernon]

A photograph of what people have been calling a "sea monster"—a rodent-like animal with a beak—has created quite a stir on the East End. Four government biologists contacted by Plum were unable to identify the species of the animal from its photo and came to the conclusion that "no such creature exists," putting forth the possibility that the photo may have been doctored. But a graphics specialist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services calls the photo—if it were doctored—a "really good Photoshop job."


The validity of the picture has been further established by the numerous eyewitnesses who saw the animal on the beach in front of Montauk's Surfside Inn. Theories abound as to what the animal is and where it came from. Marci Caplis of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service noted that rare and unknown sea animals did surface after the Asian tsunami, and although the recent East Coast storms are not of comparable magnitude, the animal did wash up on a particularly stormy day in the Hamptons. Others have speculated that the animal escaped from Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Following this lead, we contacted Dr. Larry Barrett, Center Director of Plum Island Animal Disease Center, who was kind enough to supply his take:

"It is impossible to accurately identify the species of animal from the photo. There is no scale from which to judge its size. Additionally, when a body has had prolonged exposure to water and predators, it can be altered or appear different from its normal form. If we had the actual body, we could tell you what it is; however, from viewing a canine tooth in the picture, we could guess it may be a cat or a raccoon. I can state categorically that it is not associated with the work performed at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC). PIADC serves as the nation's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases of livestock by identifying such diseases through diagnostic testing and by developing vaccines to protect livestock from those diseases."

The mystery thickens.

http://hamptons.plumtv.com/blog/whats_going/paging_darwin_montauk_%E2%80%9Csea_monster%E2%80%9D_real_or_photoshop_phantasy

[1gobluedem]

1. Ugh

Scary AND ugly.

[Pierre.Suave]

2. Wow, that is weird

Very weird.

[charlie and algernon]

3. one website said it could possibly be a turtle without its shell

but then there's another picture out there that shows a patch of fur :wtf:

[pinniped]

6. That ugly head does look like the comcrap slowsky dumbass turtles.

Someone call Dana Scully and Fox Mulder.

[akwapez]

39. turtles don't have teeth n/t

[graywarrior]

4. It's Oscar!

[charlie and algernon]

5. oscar?

[graywarrior]

7. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

[charlie and algernon]

9. holy shit

maybe it is. Where does Uncle leonard live?

[graywarrior]

10. No one knows.

[charlie and algernon]

11. Plum Island perhaps?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

37. Actually, on the outskirts of an alternate Fresno

in the Unconscious Forest.

But that poor thing in the pixcture
is of course not the mixed animal in question.

[madeline_con]

35. Oscar had fur.

Funniest. Thread. Ever. Posted. :rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Here's another view...

Looks like a wild piggy to me...

[TroglodyteScholar]

12. Yea, that angle definitely makes it look more like a pig

I'd only seen the one pic, and was mystified by it

[charlie and algernon]

14. looks like there's more hair in this one than the other two.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. It's been turned to its other side...

Faux news says it's a raccoon...

[charlie and algernon]

23. i'll take a pig, dog, pigdog , turtle w/o its shell, can't see a raccoon

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, maybe?

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

13. Karl Rove?

[1gobluedem]

15. I think you nailed it

I KNEW that thing looked familiar. And disgusting.

His glasses must have washed away, that's what threw me for a minute. :rofl:

[graywarrior]

18. He's giving "the finger".

[charlie and algernon]

19. LOL, i just noticed that

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. DUzy alert!

[Left Is Write]

17. Whatever that creature is...

it's definitely a boy.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. So it would appear.

[graywarrior]

24. Leave it to you to point that out.

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

25. Well...

he's not exactly Keith Olbermann, though.

[graywarrior]

27. Good god, no!

[Left Is Write]

29. That WAS kind of a weird statement, wasn't it?

I may have just crossed the city limits of Tipsyville.

[graywarrior]

30. That explains EVERYTHING!

[Left Is Write]

31. Maybe not EVERYTHING....

but I'm sure it explains a lot. :P

[MonkeyFunk]

16. it's a dead dog

most likely. Not worth getting too excited about.

[Chan790]

28. That's my impression. (Don't read if you upset easily or are squimish)

That looks rather like my neighbor's bull mastiff that disappeared and was found two months later drowned and decaying in the river. Poor doggie. :cry:

[charlie and algernon]

32. the front feet don't look like dog paws though

[dysfunctional press]

36. some sporting dogs- like labs, have webbed feet.

with the fur gone and pads eaten away- that's probably what they might look like.

it's a dog with part of the snout missing.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

33. It is MATCOM and DS1's love

baby.

case closed

[madeline_con]

34. Only 5 or 6 threads last night. n/t

[PassingFair]

38. My neighbor's Chihuahua ran away....

her daughter was DISTRAUGHT.

Several WEEKS later, at the huge city-wide soccer picnic,
a "sea-monster", very much like the one in the picture,
was discovered by a group of kids on the beach.

Bloated and disfigured, it could be identified by it's
little collar.

I think it's a dog.

:cry:

[sarge43]

40. Has anyone seen Barbara "The Gorgon" Bush lately? n/t