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Giant Raptor Terrorizes Alaskan Village

An anonymous reader writes "A giant raptor, rumored to have a wingspan of 14 feet, has been spotted by a number of Alaskans in the general vicinity of Manokotak. There is speculation that the beast could be a Steller's sea eagle, but Phil Schempf, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is dubious: He says that no creature that large has flown in more than 100,000 years. Read about it in this Anchorage Daily News article, which notes that residents have been warned to keep their children indoors."

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  1. Taste like chicken. by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 5, Funny


    Man...just the idea of 13 foot wing span makes my lips start to twitch. UMMM....wings....hot sauce...FIRE UP THE GRILL!!!

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    1. Re:Taste like chicken. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      This thing eats babies. Maybe it's a result of evolution that those who think too long about killing animals which devour their offspring are not the majority of people.

    2. Re:Taste like chicken. by hatchet · · Score: 2, Funny

      We kill mosquitos because they are pests
      We kill chickens because we are hungry
      We kill lions because it's fun
      We kill humans because they are pests...
      ... and because it's fun!
      by George Carlin

    3. Re:Taste like chicken. by Baikala · · Score: 3, Funny

      Bah! It's only a promo for the next lord of the rings movie.
      Next week news:
      "In a follow up of the giant eagle sightings. A climber claims to have seen a black rider on top of the bad-ass bird"

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  2. Move along people, nothing to see here.. by tedDancin · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. it's just our friend Steve Ballmer practising his new conference routine.

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  3. obviously... by prw404 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It got frozen during the last ice age. Lucky for it global warming thawed it out...

  4. Giant bird HOWTO: by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 4, Funny

    1: Feed pigeon massive steroid doses.
    2:
    3: Big assed bird!!!

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  5. The end is near! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The top of the food chain no longer belongs to mankind! Pray! Repent!

    1. Re:The end is near! by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 5, Funny

      The top of the food chain no longer belongs to mankind!
      No worries, mate. We haven't been on the top of the chain for a while.
      Pray! Repent!
      Methinks you mean: "Repent, prey!"

  6. Raptor by Cyno01 · · Score: 3, Funny

    i know it means bird of prey, but did anyone else think of this when they read the headline about a giant raptor?

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  7. The solution to this problem.... by mshiltonj · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is how I'd deal with the problem: Listen

  8. The raptor ate my baby! by Darth+Pondo · · Score: 2, Funny

    eom

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  9. It's Big Bird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    So says the Chicken Lady --

    "No, but I want to meet him, because the bearded lady says they call him Big Bird cause he's got a really big---"

  10. Re:I am completely speculating here... by ceejayoz · · Score: 4, Funny

    but could we have ourselves a Godzilla-movie-like event? Could something have been frozen, or trapped inside a cave or mountain or underground cavern with a liveable ecosystem and now is suddenly exposed to the outside?

    No.

  11. Re:What if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh come on!

    Before anything like that could happen we'd have to be living in a country country where our privacy rights were routinely ignored, where our government would lose total trust in the public and begin trampling their civil rights to proactively stop crime, and where the Armed Forces would begin using their intelligence assets to observe our own public.

    Oh wait...

  12. Re:11-11.5 ft. wingspan for the Wandering Albatros by Theom · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the russians have been busy with genetic experimentation.

    Or the chinise or the USA.

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  13. Wesley Willis sang about this giant raptor... by John+Biggabooty · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Chicken Cow by Wesley Willis

    This beast comes out when it is 25 degrees below zero
    It can rip your head off
    It can fly as high as a bird
    It can bite your face
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    This beast killed as many as 100,000 people
    Its wings can flap like a bird
    It can break a glass
    It can also stab you in the ass
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    This beast attacked my brother
    It stabbed him in the ass while he was in the cold
    His hands were frostbitten
    His hands were also numb
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    The Chicken Cow
    Rock over London, Rock on, Chicago!
    Blockbuster Video, wow, what a difference!

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  14. Dammit Scully! by kvn299 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is it going to take to make you believe!?

  15. Re:more alternate links (damn slashdot) by GregWebb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Southwest Alaskans say bird is size of a small plane?

    OK, has anyone been observed looking up at the sky and asking 'Is it a bird? Is it a plane?'

    Sorry...

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  16. Re:11-11.5 ft. wingspan for the Wandering Albatros by Cyno01 · · Score: 3, Funny

    maybe we've expanded our GM foods research from just veggies, great, now i have to worry about humongous chickens

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  17. Re:I belive it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You only need to see one 300 pound halibut, 2000 pound moose, pumpkin the size of a truck, cabbage that you could roof your house with, ravens 4 feet tall, 30 pound king crab with 6 foot long legs and ouf course foot long buds to belive a story like this. I lived in Alaska 18 years and I do not doubt this one bit.

    Everything is bigger there.


    Stop bragging. My penis is bigger than yours anyway!
  18. Re:The truth is HERE by great+om · · Score: 2, Funny

    actually, the most plausible explanation for the yeti and big foot is RMS :)

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