Unexplained tree-top boulders found in forest (URBs)

Brown County Democrat ^ | 10/22/2003 | Judy Hess

[Swordmaker]

Gobbler's Rock

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[Doctor Stochastic]

A joke that would require heavy-duty moving equipment to get the boulders into the branches.

That's assuming a rope to be heavy-duty-moving-equipment.

[Moonmad27]

This qualifies as strangest story of the month, if not the year.

[capitan_refugio]

The boulders were put there by the jackalopes.

[Consort]

Unexplained Resting Boulders: A new branch of geology.

[freebilly]

That's assuming a rope to be heavy-duty-moving-equipment.

Don't forget the heavy-duty-moving-equipment pulley....

[Doctor Stochastic]

That's better than assuming that when the tree was a sapling, the rock was only a pebble.

[Carry_Okie]

Insufficient data.

[MHGinTN]

Then there's the 'Coral Castle, in Florida, where a man working by himself moved and stacked multi-ton masses of coral stone, to build a shrine to the woman he loved and lost. He had to move the massive structures to a new location and the hauling truck driver swears the man moved the masses by himself and placed them on the flatbed with each trip! All in a matter of moments with no visible block and tackle, merely out of eye-shot from the driver!

[bluefish]

The boulder was eventually dubbed Gobbler's Rock after the turkey hunter.

Does the turkey hunter gobble himself? Perhaps a hunter can tell me if they make "turkey call" doodads kind of like the "duck call" thingies? That, or the rock was named after the hunter's prey, not after the frekin hunter!

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood and feel like being nit picky.

[BJungNan]

Known to locals as URBs, or Unexplained Resting Boulders, officials can't explain how the boulders got wedged into the branches in the first place.

No mystery here. At least not as to how the rocks got there. Who did it we might not know, but it is certain someone put them there.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>...if they make "turkey call" doodads kind of like the "duck call" thingies?

I'm not a hunter, but I do know such things exist. http://www.american-hunter.com/turkey/turkey_call.htm

[bluefish]

Cool, I'm going to buy one for Thnaksgiving and go nuts with it while the turkey is being stuffed heh heh..

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

They are probably tree sitters who climbed up there to keeep loggers from cutting the trees. They probably also took a porn magazine to pass the time.

My momma always said if I looked at one of those magazines I would turn to stone. I peeked at a porn magazine once. Momma was right! I started turning to stone!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[MarkeyD]

Many years ago I was waiting to check out of a KOA in Custer, South Dakota where the woman in front me was commenting about the 'jackalopes' that where on display/for sale in the KOA 'lobby'. She said she had never heard of them before 'now' and was very curious about the animal. I nearly bust-a-gut at that!

[Iris7]

Cool tag line.

[capitan_refugio]

Just think what would have happened if you had a few beers in ya. The tales you could have told!