Duck In Noose...Care To Read?

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[My Favorite Headache]

The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting

The Rabbit was so boastful that he would claim to do what- ever he saw anyone else do, and so tricky that he could usually make the other animals believe it all. Once he pretended that he could swim in the water and eat fish just as the Otter did, and when the others told him to prove it he fixed up a plan so that the Otter himself was deceived.

Soon afterward they met again and the Otter said, "I eat ducks sometimes." Said the Rabbit, "Well, I eat ducks too." The Otter challenged him to try it; so they went up along the river until they saw several ducks in the water and managed to get near without being seen. The Rabbit told the Otter to go first. The Otter never hesitated, but dived from the bank and swam under water until he reached the ducks, when he pulled one down without being noticed by the others, and came back in the same way.

While the Otter had been under the water the Rabbit had peeled some bark from a sapling and made himself a noose. "Now," he said, "Just watch me;" and he dived in and swam a little way under the water until he was nearly choking and had to come up to the top to breathe. He went under again and came up again a little nearer to the ducks. He took another breath and dived under, and this time he came up among the ducks and threw the noose over the head of one and caught it. The duck struggled hard and finally spread its wings and flew up from the water with the Rabbit hanging on to the noose.

It flew on and on until at last the Rabbit could not hold on any longer, but had to let go and drop. As it happened, he fell into a tall, hollow sycamore stump without any hole at the bottom to get out from and there he stayed until he was so hungry that he had to eat his own fur, as the rabbit does ever since when he is starving. After several days, when he was very weak with hunger, he heard children playing outside around the trees. He began to sing:

Cut a door and look at me; I'm the prettiest thing you ever did see.

The children ran home and told their father, who came and began to cut a hole in the tree. As he chopped away the Rabbit inside kept singing, "Cut it larger, so you can see me better; I"m so pretty." They made the hole larger, and then the Rabbit told them to stand back so that they could take a good look as he came out. They stood away back, and the Rabbit watched his chance and jumped out and got away.

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[Lancey Howard]

You would think that the rabbit would be too weak from hunger to run away. When the father was whacking the hole in the Sycamore stump, did the rabbit stay low so that he wouldn't get chopped? I wonder what the kids thought when the singing rabbit ran away? When the rabbit got away, do you think he coughed up hairballs? There is so much left out of this story.

[tonyinv]

Isn't this a rather complicated and extremely risky way to get a message out through the media? Had they slipped up and got caught the whole operation would have been blown.

I agree that halloween is a good time to target but at the same time, there will be alot of adults out that night also. The snipers/terrorists will not be able to operate as they have with so many potential witnesses.

[snickeroon]

By using the ACTUAL letters in the message to form possible words. In other words: "WE CAUGHT THE SNIPER LIKE A DUCK IN A NOOSE." becomes "Release the nuke in DC skip town." But leaves five letters unused AUGHA..... an anagram.

[My Favorite Headache]

He has stopped at 13 hasn't he? Maybe he said if you read this and work with me I will stop here at 13? LOL..you are fighting me on the 13 theory...let it run! Just kidding..I am really just pondering outloud.

[WVNan]

I don't know how to do anagrams.

[My Favorite Headache]

You asked me to show you about Moose protecting Muslims after 9-11

[My Favorite Headache]

. When the father was whacking the hole in the Sycamore stump, did the rabbit stay low so that he wouldn't get chopped

What was carried away tonight in a U-HAUL?

[VaBthang4]

You can ponder out loud I dont mind....I am also pondering out loud.

:o)

None of us knows that the sniper has stopped at 13. I would think you should let it run before I should....he pops of one more round and you've wasted alot of bandwidth.

Haha

[snickeroon]

You just take a word, ANY word and see what other words can be made from it. For example: cat can also be act or tac...... dog can be god....two can also form tow or wot.....That's the general idea. It's a word game.

[My Favorite Headache]

He is using this fable..I am getting more and more convinced...picked up the stump tonight and probably gave it to them in a message or code...c'mon read into this.

[tonyinv]

scary..the only thing I can think of for the remaining letters is that they are a NAME!

Im not a religious person, but God I hope your wrong.

[TheLion]

How do you know the message wasn't meant to call off some operation....things may be to tight right now?

[The Red Zone]

Rabbits are rodents. They shouldn't have any problem chewing out of hollow trees.

[tonyinv]

Oh and YES send it to the media, and the FBI. There is no harm in bringing it up.. I just had a thought, I think the Cemetery , what was it called? "Gates of Heaven" or something or other. I'll bet there some serious significance to that location.

[TheLion]

That's a bit of a stretch...how many other phrases could be written out of this, leaving 5 or more letters out? You would have to use all of them, imo.

[blondee123]

At this point, anything is possible, even your theory. This world has gone crazy!!

[VaBthang4]

Oh...

Well, I did my own little anagram and got...

"Im Peter Dowd"

BAM! We got his name! Of course that'll also leave a few letters out.

Grin

Seriously if you really wanna run with it, then go here and drop'em a line...

https://tips.fbi.gov/

[My Favorite Headache]

you think so? really...we are sitting around and all of a sudden we are seeing tree stumps getting picked up..you see that often? and then the message of a duck and a noose?

[snickeroon]

Hope that I am wrong, too and intend to continue to pray. But I'm also seriously wondering if anyone should be notified? The idea that it could be such an obvious hidden message is flaky, BUT, after all, the sniper specifically asked Moose to say this. It COULD be a total coincidence, but it is as surreal as the rest of this story either way.

[Pinetop]

Similarly, the Cherokee myths about the universe cast animals as transformational figures in a reincarnative sense.

Earlier today, I was suggesting that a lot more significance had to be placed on the murderer's cosmological belief system.