Video: The sadly obligatory “Montauk Monster” post
posted at 2:00 pm on August 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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In the immortal words of the governor of California, “What de hell ahh you?” The first time I looked, I thought it was a Photoshop. The second time, I remembered Hogzilla and figured it was a camera trick. The third time, I noticed that the “beak” isn’t a beak at all but part of the skull protruding through a hole in the decomposing flesh. Therein lies the answer, although the remains are conveniently MIA to prevent testing. Click here for a little scientific mythbusting — or don’t if you’d prefer to wonder. The reporter in the clip has a great exit question, but here’s one of my own: Is this really the most grotesque creature to be found on tri-state area beaches?
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Finally some real news! ;-0
Not so long as there is a Rosie O’Donnell in the world.
highhopes on August 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Allah you are so demonstrably comment baiting it’s sickening…
Mcguyver on August 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM
saw this on FNC this morning…even Fox are morons.
it’s a dog. a dead, bloated dog with some of it’s soft bits already eaten/fallen off.
viahj on August 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Oh for the love of the dog days of summer!!!
Mcguyver on August 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM
When Laura Ingraham hosted for Bill O’Reilly last Friday, she had someone from “Animal Planet” who said Jeff Corwin told her he thought it was a Raccoon.
jencab on August 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Looks like a partially-decomposed raccoon.
amerpundit on August 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Whatever it is, we should be eating it.
Verbal Abuse on August 4, 2008 at 2:12 PM
I had to read the whole link, but the dude there seems pretty confident it’s a racoon.
BadgerHawk on August 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Some biologist said it was a raccoon. I blame Daniel Boone!
simon on August 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I for one question the timing…
AverageJoe on August 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM
And to think that I used to love raccoon meat…
Mcguyver on August 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM
This is not the Montauk Monster Barack Obama thought he knew.
loganthompson on August 4, 2008 at 2:17 PM
fetal Manbearpig…
Bfunky292 on August 4, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Dated worse.
Chuck Schick on August 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM
This thing is not as painful to look at as David Gergen.
Maxx on August 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Speaking of strang things that have washed up on the beach…well I would push her back out in the ocean.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lyndsi-thomas/2008/08/04/msnbcs-brewer-does-obama-stand-chance-racist-south
Dr Evil on August 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM
The think it is the White Devil
tomas on August 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM
I don’t care what it is. I just want to know if I need to use a dry rub or a spicy sauce when I throw it on the smoker. Also, should I use brickettes or hickory chips?
robblefarian on August 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM
El Chupacabra!!!
crazy_legs on August 4, 2008 at 2:28 PM
A Raccoon? That’s what they want you to think!
lorien1973 on August 4, 2008 at 2:29 PM
I want to know who the guy was at the beginning of the clip. :-)
baldilocks on August 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM
This is evidence of the greatest threat ever to face mankind! I’m Serial!
Egfrow on August 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Looks like a tapir
CP on August 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM
I am offended by the phrase ‘The obligatory’. AP is lucky we aren’t in Canada! It’s a hate crime to offend up there.
Kevin M on August 4, 2008 at 2:31 PM
The guy at the beginning of the clip was the only rational one of all of them. It looked like a turtle without the shell to me after he said it was.
ThackerAgency on August 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Looks like Ross Perot sunbathing. What is the problem?
iam7545 on August 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM
I wondered what had become of my ex-wife.
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 2:45 PM
I have no idea what it is. But I am sure that it was caused by GLOBAL WARMING . The only logical way to stop this from swarming our beachs is a new TAX.
koypop on August 4, 2008 at 2:45 PM
The guy at the beginning of the clip was the only rational one of all of them. It looked like a turtle without the shell to me after he said it was.
ThackerAgency on August 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Never caught a turtle and made turtle soup, have you. It isn’t like the old Looney Tunes/Merry melodies cartoons. A turtle’s backbone/spine/central nervous system is pretty much a part of the shell. If they come out of the shell, its a really disgusting blob of entrails with legs.
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Washed ashore from Guido Beach?
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 2:49 PM
A turtle shell is his skin. If you remove the shell you have a freakin mess.
iam7545 on August 4, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Baby manbearpig!! Oh, the humanity!!!
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 2:52 PM
DRY RUB OR WET???!!! C’mon people, I need your help! Sheesh!
I bet ACORN has already registered it a Democrat.
robblefarian on August 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM
“What’s your biggest pet peeve?”
“My biggest pet peeve…I don’t know what the f**k that means”
Absolute gold.
JetBoy on August 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Why has no one pointed out:
Its a Manbearpig.
Rbastid on August 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM
I bet ACORN has already registered it a Democrat.
robblefarian on August 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Then it simply must be an alien of some sort…
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 2:52 PM –
Rbastid on August 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM –
The old guy[me] beat ya to it. :-)
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Hehehe…fond memories of the ex I take it!
Maybe its ‘mothman’ after getting to close to a refinery flare! It’s just a theory, but it makes sense seeing as how moths are attracted to flames. If I’m correct the left-tards will be adding additional “war crimes” charges against “Bushitler/Darth Cheney” in 3…2…1…
Liberty or Death on August 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Gotta say, I’ve done quite a bit of SCUBA diving in LI Sound…you really should see whats down there. Of course, it’s hard to see more than an arms length in that murk, which is a good thing…
JetBoy on August 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Jerry Rivers had this story on last night. It was like opening Al Capone’s vault. Jerry kept trying to make a story out of it but Jeff Corwin (the nature guy from Discovery Channel)kept explaining it was a decaying dog or racoon. I will go along with Manbearpig.
brtex on August 4, 2008 at 3:05 PM
It is a squirrel… don’t you city slicikers know anything?
Kaptain Amerika on August 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Liberty or Death on August 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM –
When you fail to heed Dean Wormer’s advice and go through life fat, drunk and stupid as I did…well, yeah, mmmm, fond memories of the ex, indeed…thank God and Greyhound, she’s gone…
Montauk? Hmmm…guess no one in that part of the world has been close to anything but pedigreed pets. Read a short article recently citing more and more urban school kids can’t tell the difference between a cow and a sheep…or just about any kind of animal other than a cat or dog. It figures. Thank you NEA.
coldwarrior on August 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Al Gore’s pet!
Ropera on August 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM
KITTY!!
Mazztek on August 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM
The prevaiing opinion I’m hearing is that it is a dead raccoon that was in the water long enough for its fur and front jaw to decompose.
ScoopPC11 on August 4, 2008 at 3:14 PM
There is another photo floating around from a different angle. That photograph seems to show pretty clearly that what we have here is a partially decomposed (or nibbled on by crabs/fish/etc) pit bull. The ears and the neck and hind legs are clearly those of a pit bull. My guess is it was either discarded because it wasn’t winning any matches, or jumped off someone’s boat.
crosspatch on August 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Send it to PETA. They can blow 12grand on a funeral…Possibly a rescue by the Animal Liberation Front gone awry like in 28 days later…..Pamela Anderson could try to give it mouth to mouth to get it going….Gotta love those PETA peoples!!!!!!!!
adamsmith on August 4, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Oh yes, I can relate my friend…been there done that!
Liberty or Death on August 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Looks like Paul Simon washed up on shore without his toupée…
Spanglemaker on August 4, 2008 at 4:13 PM
What’s certain is it died because of global warming. We will see many more of these “things” as the earth continues to warm. Pray to Obama that he recedes and cools the oceans soon.
Rod on August 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM
In this latest video, it looks like a dog
Rod on August 4, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Now you know why the ChiComs took dog off the menu in Peking restaurants. It washed up in NJ. I was disappointed, though. I figured from the headline it was Frank Lautenberg.
GeneSmith on August 4, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Pelosi’s love child…
catmman on August 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM
I was wondering when you’d post this… I was off by a good 24 hours.
Diogenes of Sinope on August 4, 2008 at 5:24 PM
For years I kept watch on the dead things that washed up at a small stretch of tidal river bank in Southampton [shown in the adjacent image], and on several occasions I got to watch taphonomy in action as dead dogs, cats and foxes washed up and decomposed over the following weeks.
From Allah’s debunking link.
I read that and thought, “Dude, you REALLY need to get a new hobby!”
logis on August 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM
It looks like James Carvell. Quick, notify his wife!
MaiDee on August 4, 2008 at 7:50 PM
d’oh
Ugly on August 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM