Man Claims Credit For Montauk Monster
Someone has come forward, or at least his friend has, to claim it was all the work of him and his buddies.
Holiday Beach, Texas - One of the attention-grabbing stories last summer was about the stinking, hairless carcass which washed up on the beach in Montauk, N.Y., part of the Hamptons vacation area.
Some speculated it was an escaped mutant from a government lab. Others thought it was an alien. A few suggested it might be a dog or raccoon.
Now an “anonymous someone” has come forward to claim it was all the work of he and his buddies. He apparently confessed, and told blogger Drew Grant how the prank came about.
He told of himself, and some buddies, finding a dead raccoon in the sand on nearby Shelter Island in late June 2008.
Being young men on vacation, and using their combined intellect, they came up with the idea of putting the animal on an inflatable child’s swim duck, along with a watermelon and some other debris, setting the whole mess on fire and pushing it out to sea.
Apparently they reasoned they were honoring the dead raccoon with a “Viking funeral” (and also offering proof that evolution can go in reverse.)
The anonymous informer said this happened just before he, and his friends, were to participate in a “clothespins on your genitals” challenge.
About two weeks later, the Montauk Monster was found around the other side of Long Island’s South Fork, and the rest is cryptozoology history.
Drew Grant’s blog, ASSME, has some photos of the young men preparing the raccoon for the Viking funeral.
And I guess that about sums it up. A group of young guys who like to play with fire, and put laundry fasteners on their penises, are behind a prank that had the news media, and the internet, buzzing for a good while.
As we slowly sink into the crapper I wonder who will come forth to claim they were behind the new Montauk Monster - the one that was found recently.
My bet is on two Georgia rednecks with a gorilla raccoon costume.
Image: Man pins the Montauk Monster mystery to himself and his friends
Author: Dean Terry
Source - http://assme.org/
