Montauk Monster! What the hell???

[xoutofstepx]

My friend told me about this last night. Just though I would post this crazy creature.

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http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/08/01_deadpuppy_lg.jpg

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Authenticity_of_the_Montauk_Monster_Contested _by_Scientists_21276.html
http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/992.html
http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/08/what_todays_monster_news_tells.html?imw=Y

[PhätTony]

GOVT Experiment gone haywire

[Monster8V]

Looks like a turtle without a shell.

[v2rocket]

it looks like an...ugly

[v2rocket]

i guess its something not discovered

well looks like science is on its way to find out! hurrah! silly people calling it a demon or alien

[Bierbau]

To me it looks like a bloated hairless 3 toed sloth.

[gtiador]

damn.. how'd the chupacabra get all the way to nyc?

[v2rocket]

damn.. how'd the chupacabra get all the way to nyc?


it stowed away in a van then hopped a train

[PhätTony]

yeah, i agree with the meez...it's a turtle without a shell.

[BexSoCal]

damn.. how'd the chupacabra get all the way to nyc?


Montauk is 130 miles away from NYC.


I think it escaped from Plum Island. :tup:


Actually, it's clearly a dog that has been at sea for quite some time. Look at the teeth and the "Beak" is just cartilage.

What is truly sad is it appears to be an intentional drowning as indicated by the straps that where around it's front legs.

The monster is not what washed up on shore. The monster is the bastard that did this to a poor defenseless doggy. :tdown:

[PhätTony]

actually with the pics here, it's not clearly a dog.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Dog_skeleton_seksjonal.png/699px-Dog_skeleton_seksjonal.png

[PhätTony]

Here's the article from a NY publication

"What today's monster news tells us about New Yorkers"

In Queens in 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed in front of her house. She screamed, the neighbors heard her, but no one helped. The killer had time to leave, twice, before coming back to finally kill her, because it took the neighbors almost an hour to call the police.
What does this have to do with the Monster of Montauk? Well.
Suppose the Monster is not actually a monster, but an earthly creature. A dog, perhaps. Suppose the original photo (above) Gawker and Daily Intel ran is real, and the photo Newsday ran today (inset) is real, and that they are of the same beast as the photographers claim. We're no scientists — far from it — but the difference between the two pictures, the amount of decomposition that occurred between pictures, suggests that the creature lay on the beach not for an afternoon, as Newsday (http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-lijoy0801,0,5138315.column?page=2) says, but for quite some time, and that although several people came and photographed it, no one alerted any authorities to take it away. In the interim, the people who took the pictures showed their photos to other people, who also did not call anyone to take it away. They didn't even say, "Is anyone here a marine biologist?"
Back in the sixties, psychologists dubbed the tendency for people to walk away from a horror, expecting that someone better equipped would come to take care of it, "bystander effect," or "Kitty Genovese syndrome," after the case that came to symbolize New Yorkers' — and Americans' — apathy about getting "involved." "The case touched on a fundamental issue of the human condition, our primordial nightmare,'' legendary City University of New York psychology professor Stanley Milgram said at a conference on "Bad Samaritanism" in 1984. "If we need help, will those around us stand around and let us be destroyed or will they come to our aid? Are those other creatures out there to help us sustain our life and values, or are we individual flecks of dust just floating around in a vacuum?''
In June of this year, when a woman called Esmin Green (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/hospital.woman.death/) collapsed on the floor of Brooklyn Hospital and died, lying there for over an hour in full view of other patients and a security guard, it proved that nearly half a century after the Kitty Genovese murder—even after 9/11—eNew Yorkers still have a problem with empathy. And in a weird way — a very weird way, we grant you — these two photos of the Montauk Monster prove it, too. That monster screamed into the night; and no one came to his aid. All we are is dust in the wind.
Ahem. So have a great weekend, everyone! And rest in peace, little guy, wherever (and whatever!) you are.

[BexSoCal]

actually with the pics here, it's not clearly a dog.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Dog_skeleton_seksjonal.png/699px-Dog_skeleton_seksjonal.png


And your cartoon is supposed to demonstrate what exactly?

I will bet that it is one of two things.
A. A poor little puppy or a dog like a Pug that was killed intentionally and eventually washed up on shore.
B. Viral Marketing for some stupid new movie.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[EDM]

I'm with Becca on this one, looks like a dog to me. Probably a Pit Bull or Bull Terrier. And if so the fucker who did this should have the same done to him.

[SoCal_GLI]

And your cartoon is supposed to demonstrate what exactly?

I will bet that it is one of two things.
A. A poor little puppy or a dog like a Pug that was killed intentionally and eventually washed up on shore.
B. Viral Marketing for some stupid new movie.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


well they are in production of the new X-files movie

[Monster8V]

if its a dog the canines look wrong.

[veedubber7]

turtles dont have teeth

[EDM]

They are also saying it could be a Raccoon.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/montauk.asp

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Zoology/Animalclassification/OrderPrimates/raccoonskeleton.jpg