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Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes ashore on Florida beach
Orlando Sentinel ^
 | 10-11-2012
 | David Fleshler
Posted on 10/11/2012 3:37:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes ashore on Florida beach
 
 

By David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel
October 11, 2012 
 
A giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature washed ashore Wednesday in Pompano Beach. 
 
No one knows what species the huge eyeball came from, but whatever it is, it has blue eyes and has to be big enough to have eyeballs bigger than softballs. Among the possibilities being discussed are a giant squid, some other large fish or a whale or other large marine mammal. 
 
A man spotted the eyeball Wednesday and reported it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 
 
"He was walking along the beach and found it and thought it looked like something cool," said Carli Segelson, spokeswoman for the commission.
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TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: marinebiology; mystery
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To: smoothsailing
    That’s from IronMan’s chest.
 
To: autumnraine
To: smoothsailing
    Is it slimy....like it was spit out??
 
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:38:56 PM PDT
by 
Sacajaweau
(r)
 
To: Slings and Arrows
5
posted on 
10/11/2012 3:39:00 PM PDT
by 
To Hell With Poverty
(Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
 
To: smoothsailing
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:39:22 PM PDT
by 
yarddog
 
To: smoothsailing
    In mexico it would make a great taco.
 
To: smoothsailing
    Man, I love digging up my old favorites:
 
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:41:03 PM PDT
by 
Slyfox
 
To: smoothsailing
    Cthulhu is going to be *pissed* that someone has one of his eyes.
 
9
posted on 
10/11/2012 3:41:07 PM PDT
by 
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est.)
 
To: yarddog
    It has to be a cyclops.It is now.
 
10
posted on 
10/11/2012 3:42:03 PM PDT
by 
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
 
To: smoothsailing
    It’s the sign of Bluebeard. Be careful....very careful...
 
To: smoothsailing
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:43:04 PM PDT
by 
Rocky
(Obama is pure evil.)
 
To: smoothsailing
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:43:18 PM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
 
To: smoothsailing
    Is Big Sis wearing an eyepatch?
 
14
posted on 
10/11/2012 3:43:23 PM PDT
by 
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
 
To: Rocky
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:43:45 PM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
 
To: smoothsailing
    Pompano Beach huh? So that's where I left that thing.
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:44:21 PM PDT
by 
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
 
To: yarddog
    With you. It’s Polyphemus.
“No one has blinded me!”
 
17
posted on 
10/11/2012 3:44:35 PM PDT
by 
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes.   I love the South.)
 
To: yarddog
    Didn’t the group Cyclops sing the hit “I only have eye for you
“?
 
18
posted on 
10/11/2012 3:44:38 PM PDT
by 
Scarpetta
(e pluribus victim)
 
To: Scarpetta
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posted on 
10/11/2012 3:45:46 PM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
 
To: smoothsailing
    And so now we have this large unknown creature swimming around out there - angry, in pain, and with severely limted depth perception...
 
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