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Mystery of 9-foot Hot Dog on Edge of Alaska Wilderness Leaves Trekkers Perplexed
Alaska Dispatch | August 28, 2014 | Craig Medred

Posted on 08/28/2014 8:58:42 PM PDT by skeptoid

What do you do with a huge hot dog that is washed up on a Cook Inlet beach in Alaska? Light it on fire! That's what trekkers Graham Kraft, Andy Fischer, Eben Sargent, and Luc Mehl attempted.

The giant foam hot dog in a bun that Luc Mehl and friends stumbled across this spring on the edge of Alaska nowhere left him haunted.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alaska; hotdog; susitnariver
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Then they tried to burn it . . . .


1 posted on 08/28/2014 8:58:43 PM PDT by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid

probably part of a traveling carnival or circus at one point... why would they burn it?? That could have led to an interesting history lesson


2 posted on 08/28/2014 9:00:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: skeptoid

It’s Carlos Danger!


3 posted on 08/28/2014 9:01:12 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: GeronL

It was from a fast food place. High school pranksters put it in Knik Arm years ago and it migrated with wind and tide,


4 posted on 08/28/2014 9:02:58 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: skeptoid

Those boys should run because Paul Bunyan is gonna be pissed when he comes back and finds his lunch all burned up.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 9:03:42 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: GeronL
Forgot to post the link

http://www.adn.com/article/20140828/mystery-9-foot-hot-dog-edge-alaska-wilderness-leaves-trekkers-perplexed

6 posted on 08/28/2014 9:05:13 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: GeronL

“It was the hot dog off Miller’s Ice Cream,’’ Spangler admitted under intense questioning.

Spangler’s memory is that Miller’s store was for a time out of business and some high school students thought they’d liberate the hot dog. He claimed not to remember who was involved, but he did remember the group took the dog on a “joyride’’ that ended with them “tying it up with some rope under the Old Glenn Highway bridge.’’

http://www.adn.com/article/20140828/mystery-9-foot-hot-dog-edge-alaska-wilderness-leaves-trekkers-perplexed


7 posted on 08/28/2014 9:08:15 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: skeptoid; All
..no mustard? ..chili? ..other fixin'..the savages. 😉
8 posted on 08/28/2014 9:08:38 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: GeronL

...cuz it’s a HOT dog?


9 posted on 08/28/2014 9:10:07 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: skeptoid

Giant Flaming Weenies!

What a great name for a rock band.
(And a tip of the hat to Dave Barry)


10 posted on 08/28/2014 9:11:16 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: skeptoid

Disco Inferno
by The Trammps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M

(Burn baby burn)
(Burn baby burn)
(Burn baby burn)
(Burn baby burn)

To my surprise, one hundred stories high
People getting loose y’all, getting down on the roof
Folks are screaming, out of control
It was so entertaining when the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say

(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down

Satisfaction came in a chain reaction
(Burnin’)
I couldn’t get enough, so I had to self-destruct
The heat was on, rising to the top
Everybody going strong, and that is when my spark got hot
I heard somebody say

(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down y’all
(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down

Up above my head
I hear music in the air
That makes me know
There’s a party somewhere

Satisfaction came in a chain reaction
(Burnin’)
I couldn’t get enough, so I had to self-destruct
The heat was on, rising to the top
Everybody going strong, and that is when my spark got hot
I heard somebody say

(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down

(Burn baby burn)
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down

(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot

(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
When my spark gets hot

(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot
(Just can’t stop) when my spark gets hot

(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco inferno
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn)
(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down
(Burn baby burn) disco inferno


11 posted on 08/28/2014 9:12:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: skeptoid

Probably from a Japanese Hot Dogu Stand.

Washed out to sea by the big Tsunami and found it’s way to Alaska...


12 posted on 08/28/2014 9:13:37 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: skeptoid

Why, I’ve seen herds of these things on the tundra. You don’t want to spook them. There’s nothing more dangerous than a weenie stampede.


13 posted on 08/28/2014 9:16:08 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

“There’s nothing more dangerous than a weenie stampede”

Tell that to the residents of Washington, DC

CC


14 posted on 08/28/2014 9:22:16 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: skeptoid

It’s a good idea to have one of these in your backpack when you go into the wilderness.

“Crap! It’s a grizzly sow and we’re between her and her cubs! What are we going to do?”

“Quick! Frank! Throw out the weener decoy!”


15 posted on 08/28/2014 9:29:08 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: skeptoid

“Look! It’s a Viking funeral for Barney Frank!”


16 posted on 08/28/2014 9:36:48 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6
“ Wook! It’s a Viking funewal foe Bawney Fwank!"

(Minor spelling correction)

17 posted on 08/28/2014 9:53:29 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: skeptoid

Have the EPA arrested and charged them yet for air pollution and burning without a permit?


18 posted on 08/28/2014 10:04:09 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: skeptoid

Fumes from burning styrofoam are toxic.


19 posted on 08/28/2014 10:08:51 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Have the EPA arrested and charged them yet for air pollution and burning without a permit?

And generating toxic smoke, too, as smokingfrog points out.

20 posted on 08/28/2014 10:17:31 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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