Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk

GAWKER ^ | Tue Jul 29 2008

[Sopater]

No, Lizzie Grubman's still alive. This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak. A tipster says that there is "a government animal testing facility very close by in Long Island," but unless the government is trying to design horrible Montauk monsters that will eat IEDs and fart fire at bad Iraqis, we're not sure why they would create such an unthinkable beast. Our guess is that it's viral marketing for something. Ali Lohan's new album perhaps. Click thru for larger dino-damage.

[Sopater]

A tortise without a shell?

[FlashBack]

That’s my guess....

[TexasCajun]

Illegal Cupacabra shooting the finger?

[kalee]

That’s what I think, too.
Definitely a tortoise head.

[cw35]

It looks like it has teeth?

[HereInTheHeartland]

” “a government animal testing facility very close by in Long Island,”

Plum Island is one of our lines of defense for infectious animal diseases; the other facility is in Ames, Iowa.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=19400000

[garyhope]

Monster?

What? Bubba ‘n The Hilldabeast have been swimming on Long Island again?

Or was it Teddy?

[B4Ranch]

ping

[weegee]

Reminds me of that street protest photo...

[robomatik]

[weegee]

and what was the baby in Eraserhead?

[weegee]

I know what it is. Dead.

"Naw let's make some good SOUP!"

[Clemenza]

When I was a kid living on the island, we went to visit some friends on the north fork. The older kids kept telling me about Plum Island being the home of aliens and monkey-human hybrids, ie a real Island of Dr. Moreau.

This is a de-shelled sea tortoise. Shows over folks! Nothing to see here!

[ikka]

One of Hellary’s flying monkeys ?

[Clemenza]

I haven’t seen that movie since I was seven. In the words of Bob Hope, “thanks for the memories...”

[HighlyOpinionated]

Global Warming caused the tortoise to remove its shell before taking a swim and then some Democrat politician with a Federal Grant stole the shell to sell to some poor tortoise with no place to live. The Pol got a government kickback and skimmed off the top. This is how redistribution of Republican wealth works.

/sarc???

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak.

We've found the missing link!

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[Centurion2000]

A tortise without a shell?

No scales either.

[aruanan]

Hippogriff?

[Billthedrill]

This is a de-shelled sea tortoise. Shows over folks! Nothing to see here!

Sure, sure. That's what They told you to say, isn't it?