(08-16-2023, 10:44 AM)BIAD Wrote:(08-15-2023, 09:48 PM)Schmoe Wrote: I hate pissing on parades, but apparently it's a fake.
Forgive my earlier sarcasm, Schmoe, I guessed the outcome you offered would come to pass and
hence the reason I initially wrote that I was reluctant to post the article.
It is a sad state of affairs when the general MSM are low-balling their seasonal crap out in such
a manner that within a couple of days, their words are proved to be false. However, there were
the usual code words in the article that we all may look out for in the future.
"It’s clearly a large cat of the Panthera genus. “It’s so clear we can even see its whiskers..."
A quote from an unnamed assistant director working at an unnamed zoology centre. (The Journo
didn't even capitalise the position of the assistant director or the centre's title!)
Rupert Murdoch's newspaper has never recovered from when it stopped having topless models on
its Page 3, but they're currently enjoying the word 'underboob'!
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Edit: "...The picture, which has now proved to be a fake, was discovered by Carl Marshall,
a British big cat enthusiast, who works with the Centre for Fortean Zoology.
It was accompanied by a handwritten note dated March 17 – but it is unclear which year it
was taken..." - MailOnline:
There's nothing to forgive, BIAD.
I thought it was legit too at first, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that somebody's big cat escapes or is let loose. As Ninurta pointed out, it would leave a trail of destruction behind it, in the form of corpses it ate.
I'm not familiar with the fauna of the UK, but surely there are some variety of deer it could hunt.
Hell, the only reason I started digging into it was the purpleness of the cat. Some animals appear black in the shade, but then the sun hits them and they have a strange purple to them. That threw me off, because the background looked overcast, but the cat was practically glowing.
Just because somebody faked this particular picture, doesn't mean that there aren't some big cats out there. I'd bet there are.