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.

[SkyDancer]

Fido - someone’s missing a small dog ....

[American_Centurion]

That was my first thought, I searched the thread and you had already answered.

Good show!

[isrul]

Now you're making me interested in visiting the place. But I hate long drives.

[Concho]

It is a partially decomposed small dog or cat.

[SkyDancer]

That’s what it looked like to me ... probably a dog that jumped off a boat ....

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[mass55th]

The tail’s kind of long for a tortoise don’t you think?

[Stephanie32]

Ewww, lord a mighty, WTH is that? What are those ties on it? Someone had it tied up. It doesn’t look like it was malnourished but there has to be someone who knows what it is. Like whoever tied it up.

[WakeUpAndVote]

OH, SWEET JESUS!

[wrench]

Just looked again, it appears its front legs are tied together. Makes the dog-paddle a little difficult.

[weegee]

Turtle got jacked by a polar bear...

[Stephanie32]

Yeah and what is that thing near it’s hind end? Looks like another tie but I’m not sure. Maybe someone tied it up and drowned it. OMG, that is horrible.

[seoul62]

Helen has been dethroned as the new face of fug, her replacement: Henry-Nostrilitis-Waxman./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[4yearlurker]

Looks like somebody tied a dog up and threw it in the ocean or bay. The front nose and front lower jaw area has been eaten or rotted away. Can’t explain the hair loss. maybe it had a severe case of mange.

[No Truce With Kings]

Ted Kennedy after a bender?

[wrench]

The hair will slough off a dead mamal that is in the water after a week or two depending on the temperature.

[Louis Foxwell]

Pic from one of my daughter’s all time favorite movies, Dark Crystal. Magnificent puppetry.

[Cold Heart]

I’ve seen turtles without their shell, they look nothing like that.

[Quix]

Thanks Montak sure has some horrid baggage associated with it.

[smokingfrog]

Doesn't look like a monster to me.