The Montauk Monster

[HylianHero92]

a giant turd.....

........

monster



We were just swimming at said beach when it floated by. Because of that my parents don't ever want to go to Montauk ever again. Can't blame 'em with turds floating all over.

[Keaton]

That was a crappy conclusion.

[HylianHero92]

That was a crappy conclusion.

Would you want to go back to a beach with excretion floating in the water?!

[darkphantomime]

It's surprisingly more common than you think...

[MagmarFire]

That was a crappy conclusion.

I think that deserves a rimshot.

Man...that was a bit anticlimactic...

[HylianHero92]

It's surprisingly more common than you think...

And where exactly is this common? Not near where I live for sure!

[darkphantomime]

Do you have any idea how often untreated sewage gets drained into the sea?

[HylianHero92]

Yeah, but living on an island with beaches as the main attractions , they usually close down the beaches till the "Brown Tide" leaves.

Oh well, doesn't matter 'cause I'd probably never go there again anyways, you know, with gas prices and all.

[MasterKeyX]

It may have been a bad conclusion, but it was good for the lols. 

[Fishalicious]

It's a raccoon.

Jesus Christ, I'm sorry, but I've had to deal with this several times.

It's a skinned racoon - that band around it's arm? part of the fur. the beak is the nasal passage, which is exposed because the nose was most likely taken off with most of the facial tendons and the like.

raccoon skull:



it is too stumpy and specialised of a skull to be a dog, and those forearms are obviously a coon.



People nowadays are stupid/sheltered - no offense to anyone. ): but i didn't realise a dead raccoon could cause so much of a fuss - it's so obvious to me. I've seen hundreds of dead coons, in various states of decomposition, and I'm fairly certain many people have passed them on the roadside.

[MasterKeyX]

You do seem quite sure of yourself... I didn't know a racoon could get that big. 

[Keaton]

Have you ever heard of the Giant Three-Toed Sloth, MK?

[Fishalicious]

Are you serious?

Raccoons get pretty big. "16.1–28.0 in" according to Wikipedia, and that is just the body, the tail can get to be "7.6–15.9 in" which is pretty big.

So if the raccoon were as big as can be, it'd be almost 44 inches... which is about 3 and 2/3 feet.


Also there is no scale to the picture so it can be a lot smaller than you thought - unless I'm missing some pictures or evidence [ which I highly doubt ] and so your point is a little moot.

[MasterKeyX]

I guess you guys are right then. I'm not exactly familiar with racoons; they dont really live around here.

ANd I have never heard of a giant three toed sloth, no. 

[Keaton]

There are variants of creatures that we could never have comprehended a hundred years back, dude.