Posted on 04/07/2005 9:31:30 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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"
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.
That picture is part of a crab claw,
Are you sure that didn't come from an Orc?
Is Kirstie Alley swimming again?
Don't look much like a toof do it?
Bit late for April Fools Day???
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.
How long has Nessie been around? Shouldn't it be dead by now?
> 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.
That's what I thought.
Sort of like a Pronghorn.
Could be a small antler of a deer(?). Wait a minute, wasn`t that take from a dead deer?
Celtic Ping list!
My funness about the Loch Ness... Monster :)
The thing is obvious. It's a dragon.
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.
I think a wyvern...
Your antler guess is probably correct.
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