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Geek Culture / Big cat in Scotland!

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Van B
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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 01:29
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Hi all,
Just heard this straight from the horses mouth...

My dad and my uncle work for the council - and part of their job is to dispose of dead deer, mostly road kills really, but this one today was very different.

Missing leg, spine stripped clean, massive bite in neck, and paw prints that could only be a big cat. It just might be proof to all the folklore and hearsay about big cats living in parts of Scotland!.

Hehe, he was crapping himself because they made them wait there until the inspectors arrived.


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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 01:33
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I saw a wild cat in Kircudbright animal park once. Nasty looking things. Don't think they're the things you're talking about, though

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That's nothing compared to a squirrel.
It bit one of my classmates in Hide Park

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They only kill for food though (dont they) so it wouldnt be hungry any more so they would be quite (not completely) safe.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 02:44
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Quote: "They only kill for food though (dont they) so it wouldnt be hungry any more so they would be quite (not completely) safe.
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Provided it wasn't looking for desert!

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 03:05
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Quote: "That's nothing compared to a squirrel.
It bit one of my classmates in Hide Park "


That's quite something, to actually get within 20 metres of one and one not running off. Let alone actually getting close enough to be bitten. Wow.

ps - Did you mean Hyde park?

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Quote: "Did you mean Hyde park?"

he is obviously talking about the great park that only few people have seen cause it constantly hides itself - no, my bad

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Quote: "ps - Did you mean Hyde park?"

Yeah, I was.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 05:22
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Quote: "within 20 metres"

In Greenwich I got one to sniff my boot...not stupid enough to let it get closer

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What they think happened is that Big Cats have escaped/been released from zoo's and/or private collections. They've now interbred and are creating a British Big-Cat species.

That's jsut a theory mind.

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They're dangerous!



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I once watched a television program about this mysteriouse creatur on the descovery channel, it is quite creepy. America has Big-foot, Australia has that tasmanian tiger, and now scotland has the phantom panther. Hmmmm.

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theres rumours of a panther as well in the highlands in victoria, australia.
apparantly the rumour goes it was a cat from a circus that escaped or a mascot animal form an american army barracks.

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indi, How come you never come on msn any more?.

My mum once saw a reindeer running down our street.

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Quote: "I once watched a television program about this mysteriouse creatur on the descovery channel, it is quite creepy. America has Big-foot, Australia has that tasmanian tiger, and now scotland has the phantom panther. Hmmmm.

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the tazzie tiger is actually a real animal, only it has been known as extinct for about 50 years, though people still believe there may be some surviving in uncharted tasmania, but we also believe that everyone in tasmania marry their cousins or are a cousin of someone from the mainland.

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Van, more incredible than the big cat is the horse that spoke to you!

Quote: "to actually get within 20 metres of one and one not running off"


I used to feed them at my parents house, they would happily sit on my knee, and take food from your hand.

My parents once had a cow walk through their garden. It had fallen into the stream about a mile away, and their garden was the first one it could climb out of the water and get through.

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Quote: "America has Big-foot, Australia has that tasmanian tiger, and now scotland has the phantom panther"


Dammit! retards! IT WAS A REAL ANIMAL!!!!!!1! And we are hping to bring them back from extinction with the mirical of cloning. Bu unlike Jurrasic park, we have whole DNA strands, and they're not dinosaurs


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I was once bitten by a wild duck.

Is that relevant here?


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Very relevant Andy. A big cat would be scary - but really the creatures to watch for when visiting Scotland are the midges. They're like mosquito's without the malaria - they are all the worlds evil in a one millimetre long body.

I was once bitten by a goose on the butt when I was a lil' kid, I know it's daft, but damn I was scared then - bloody birds are as bad a midges, even the graceful Swan could break your arm easily if it wanted. Whoever said animals are better than humans obviously never visited Britain.


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I have eaten more ducks than ducks that have eaten me. It's a fair trade off.


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Quote: "My mum once saw a reindeer running down our street."

Was she drunk/stoned/etc?

Quote: "I was once bitten by a goose"

Happened to me once...your right it is scary at that age....

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Anyone else here actually from Scotland, or is it just me and VanB?

PS: VanB, where abouts did it happen? Cos i could tell you some creepy stories that i've heard over the years about people seeing strange things in this country...my dad being a policeman has seen some strange things on the nightshift as well...
Actually have a creepy ghost style photo i could post if i had anywhere to host it. If someone wants to direct me to hastle free image hosting i'll post it later.

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I've been to Scotland, that's as Scottish as I want to be...


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I was camping out in the desert. Went to bed around 10:30 with my tent partner dude (Boy Scout camp, they force us to set up and sleep in a tent with other people). I woke up around 3am to some scuffling noises. My tent partner was talking in his sleep, and I heard something snort outside. All of a sudden my tent partner goes crazy and has a spaz in his sleep and whacks the side of the tent. I hear a high pitched squeal of a pig and the sound of a small fat animal trying to gallop away in fear, so I went back to bed. I woke up a few hours later, went outside and confiemd the javelina tracks.

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Quote: "Hold on, trying to attach it. Havn't noticed that feature yet"
thats looks hell of photoshopped, i mean just airbrush a shoddy picture fo a ghost and then transparency it. Even if the photo is original its more likely fog or glare or just some crap smeared on the lens. not ghosts.


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lol, most of those ghost pictures look that way..

It looks authentic to me, at least, it looks similar to the other foggy smeared pictures..

Who knows how it happens *shrugs*

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It's authentic (at least I think it is) but not of a ghost

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now as much as you (if I read right) and I don't believe in ghosts, you can't really say what it is, can you. Last I heard they still haven't figured it out.

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very true but it's not a shape...since when did splats die and become ghosts? (dont answer that )

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The photograph has a vortex on it, Dont know if anybody else noticed.

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Quote: "Dammit! retards! IT WAS A REAL ANIMAL"


Uh, did I ever say if was fake? I know it is reall, it's kind of hard to argue that fact when they have a ton of them sittin in jars all over the place. I was hinting to the possibility that it is still around.

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