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Yesterday Gawker posted a photo of what quickly became referred to as "the Montauk Monster." Lizzie Grubman jokes were made, spines shivered, conspiracy theorists pondered (the Montauk Project, anyone?), a new internet superstar was born, and most came to the conclusion that the thing that washed up near the Surfside Inn was a bloated turtle without its shell. Or a monster.
Now Fox News has brought in the experts (the full clip is after the jump). Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin, angered by a Red Sox loss and the stupidity of humans, says the public's fascination with the creature is unwarranted; what we thought was a beak are really teeth, he says, and clearly what we are looking at here is a raccoon. Or maybe a dog? But definitely not a monster!
As for the monster "raccoon," no one seems to know where it is now; NYMag says it was carted off by an old man declaring he would mount it to his wall. Meanwhile, PlumTV promises an interview with the photographer, Jenna Hewitt, tomorrow.
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It's Ann Coulter!
Why does Jeff Corwin have to burst our Internet fun?
Chupacabra.
More viral marketing courtesy of Jen Carlson.
Why is it wearing an armband? That's just wrong.
It's Obama's daughter.
It's the love child of babyhitler and matty.
Cute...
a fung wah escapee!
poor Meeko.
There is no such thing as a turtle without its shell. The shell of a turtle is part of it's body. It doesn't come off like a jacket.
Remember Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles? Remember The Secret of the Ooze? Remember Shredder's mutant henchmen Tokka and Rahzar?
This is totally a viral marketing campaign for a TMNT reboot:
http://cosmodromemag.com/content/the-secret-ooze
How exactly is that a racoon?
Probably more attractive than most dead humans.
hillary, is that you?
Sen. John Edwards's lovechild!
And after all that, the lady anchor says "do raccoons have beaks?"
Raccoon's do not have beaks!!Its not a raccoon.
I don't know of any animal that has a beak like a bird!!! Very odd looking creator.Known I've seen on the earth!!!!
I saw something JUST like this at www.digitalfuntown.com
raccoons have more snout... this has much less snout and more beak:
see dead raccoon here: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_-T4u8Y9uAzc/Rv6vNP9z3yI/AAAAAAAAAGI/p2ltiTbCnSg/Costa+Rica+9-8-2007+3-30-34+PM.JPG
and here:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.pbase.com/u45/aestus/upload/35483173.2004.10.24.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pbase.com/aestus/image/35483173&h=467&w=700&sz=123&hl=en&start=46&sig2=on6om-O31QPpXDqHEGzszA&um=1&tbnid=KZLhPb4olaDiNM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=140&ei=DiGSSJDdJYGaoQSB5rCUAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddead%2Braccoon%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
and here's a photo of the NYPD using the sidewalk as a road: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1Djencygd4o/RKiMZhcbABI/AAAAAAAAAY8/J4Ok59sg_Qo/cimg0983.jpg
stop reading gawker and then reposting the same damn stories here. jesus.
I find that poor dead radogcoon more appealing than the anchors on Fox.
I think they should autopsy it.
I am going to call it right now
It's a Patricia Pucchini model
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/
(click we are family)
and it's a cross promotion with some company or movie or whatever.
I guarantee that's what it is.
Looks rather obviously like a cat to me.
Matty may be on to something. The thing mysteriously disappeared so there is no way we will know if it was even real.
I read on digg someone commented to say it was a sea turtle- looks more like a sea turtle then a raccoon.
"Ann Coulter!" LOL
it looks....Dead
I second bloated turtle without its shell.
Or Gryphon.
No, #20, Mike Bloomberg is the Lindbergh Baby.
Love child of Rudy Giuliani and his Mrs.Judy Rudy Tooty.
The baby Was conceived
after He was "not to take Holy
Communion" but did so anyway.