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Loch Ness Monster Finally Identified???
emediawire.com ^ | April 7th, 2005 | William McDonald

Posted on 04/07/2005 9:31:30 PM PDT by Beowulf9

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Thought this interesting, if not perhaps quizzical.

This is what the other site says, along with pictures of the 'tooth'.

"I’m a college student in the Midwest U.S. In March (2005) my roommate and I went to the U.K and spent our last two days at Loch Ness. The boat rental season hadn’t started so we hired a local who took us on a private boat tour.

After a few hours we came across the remains of a dead deer. The animal had literally been ripped in half - hind quarters gone, its spine was broken and severed. There were huge bloody gashes, teeth marks and a bizarre bony protrusion sticking out of an exposed rib. Using a screwdriver, we cracked open the ribcage and pried it loose. It was a tooth - about 4 inches long, barbed and very sharp!

I'm about the biggest skeptic you'll ever meet, but this tooth was real, and whatever ate that deer had to have been huge. Our Scottish local told us there are no bears in the area. Excited, we signaled a passing boat to join us. Big mistake! The man told us he was the water bailiff, flashed credentials, then confiscated the tooth and the video tape that was in my camera, claiming we could get everything back from the Highland Authorities as long as we cooperated. Fortunately, he didn’t find the earlier footage in my backpack.

We wasted our last day trying to get the tooth back. Most thought we were nuts, one guy who knew the water bailiff threatened to "take our passports if we made trouble." Now we're angry and want the tooth back. I tracked down a Loch Ness expert through some blogs who discovered fresh animal tracks last December. (http://loch-movie.tripod.com) Mr. McDonald says the tooth will prove his own theories apparently - developed for some author. He swears he knows what the creature is and has investors ready to buy the tooth from us.

Please look at our footage. Send the links to everyone you know. Anyone whose effort help us to recover the tooth from the Highland authorities will receive a $5,000 reward! You can contact me by clicking here or contact Bill McDonald at bill_kia@hotmail.com"

1 posted on 04/07/2005 9:31:31 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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2 posted on 04/07/2005 9:37:12 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Beowulf9

I went to college in Aberdeen, Scotland. Every spring there is a Nessie sighting or controversy to get people to Inverness. There is NO other reason to go there.


3 posted on 04/07/2005 9:38:04 PM PDT by Soliton (Alone with everyone else.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

That picture is part of a crab claw,


4 posted on 04/07/2005 9:38:45 PM PDT by Soliton (Alone with everyone else.)
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To: Beowulf9
Gee, how convenient that they only have a picture of the tooth, not the tooth itself. Try again.
5 posted on 04/07/2005 9:39:03 PM PDT by billybudd
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To: Mr. Mojo

Are you sure that didn't come from an Orc?


6 posted on 04/07/2005 9:40:42 PM PDT by Redcloak (But what do I know? I'm just a right-wing nut in his PJs whackin' on a keyboard..)
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To: Beowulf9

Is Kirstie Alley swimming again?


7 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:13 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I have a big truck)
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To: Soliton

Don't look much like a toof do it?


8 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:17 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: Beowulf9

Bit late for April Fools Day???


9 posted on 04/07/2005 9:42:12 PM PDT by plenipotentiary (AKA ABrit)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Just an uninformed engineer's opinion.

That looks more like an antler than a tooth.

Notice the cruve of the tooth, not look at the root; it doesn't look structurally sound. So consider, we have a predatory mammal that has never been sighted, with a tooth 4 inches long, that isn't structrually sound nor does it have signs of wear (notice the tip). Sorry, my BS detector is going off.


10 posted on 04/07/2005 9:42:44 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

How long has Nessie been around? Shouldn't it be dead by now?


11 posted on 04/07/2005 9:43:46 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Soliton

> That picture is part of a crab claw, ...

Looks more like a pronghorn antler to me,
but in any event, not a tooth.

Someone is gaming someone here.


12 posted on 04/07/2005 9:44:00 PM PDT by Boundless
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To: Hodar

That's what I thought.
Sort of like a Pronghorn.


13 posted on 04/07/2005 9:44:45 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Mr. Mojo

Could be a small antler of a deer(?). Wait a minute, wasn`t that take from a dead deer?


14 posted on 04/07/2005 9:44:52 PM PDT by Peace will be here soon
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To: Pompah; RobertP; Born Conservative; DGray; madison10; Former Dodger; free_european; ...

Celtic Ping list!

My funness about the Loch Ness... Monster :)


15 posted on 04/07/2005 9:45:21 PM PDT by MacDorcha ("Do you want the e-mail copy or the fax?" "Just the fax, ma'am.")
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200-pound Highland red deer...torn in half, its pelt ravaged. .. a shed animal tooth – found wedged between the deer’s exposed ribcage. The tooth is barbed, well-rooted, and measured nearly four inches in length!

The thing is obvious. It's a dragon.

16 posted on 04/07/2005 9:45:59 PM PDT by Graymatter
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It looks like some kind of little horn to me. I can readily imagine that a deer might have been killed by another deer and that local dogs and foxes might have devoured parts of the corpse. People in general, particularly students, are so unused to the rather shocking sight of "nature red in a tooth and claw" that they can't see a dead animal in an objective way.


17 posted on 04/07/2005 9:46:44 PM PDT by Capriole (I don't have any problems that couldn't be solved by more chocolate or more ammunition)
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To: Graymatter

I think a wyvern...


18 posted on 04/07/2005 9:47:00 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: Beowulf9
The meter is buzzing! :)

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19 posted on 04/07/2005 9:47:32 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They need changing often, and for the same reason!)
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To: Hodar
Pretty weak "root", isn't it?

Your antler guess is probably correct.

20 posted on 04/07/2005 9:47:44 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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