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JonathanD
22-10-2010, 23:32
OK folks. This is not mine, but was posted on another forum, the coin is a 10p piece, location was Devon. I know exactly what made it... do you?
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/data/500/medium/00254.JPG
Harvestman
22-10-2010, 23:55
No. :D
JonathanD
22-10-2010, 23:56
No. :D
Useless, absolutely useless.
Harvestman
23-10-2010, 00:00
:lmao::lmao:
... the coin is a 10p piece, location was Devon. I know exactly what made it... do you?
The Royal Mint?
Harvestman
23-10-2010, 00:05
The Royal Mint?
Nah mate, its the print of a loan shark.
JonathanD
23-10-2010, 00:10
The Royal Mint?
What made it, not who.
British Red
23-10-2010, 00:11
A bloody great stamping machine?
British Red
23-10-2010, 00:13
On a more serious note, that looks like multiple overlayed prints - is that right Jon?
JonathanD
23-10-2010, 00:14
A bloody great stamping machine?
That's correct. It is a stonking great thing, all oily and powerful.
Now moving on to the track.
JonathanD
23-10-2010, 00:14
On a more serious note, that looks like multiple overlayed prints - is that right Jon?
Yeah, I'd say so.
British Red
23-10-2010, 00:22
Clearly the impression is some chuffing great pad type print, and had the back part been one big print I'd have said chuffing great canid, but now I'm thinking six or seven smaller prints
Yes...no?
JonathanD
23-10-2010, 00:27
Clearly the impression is some chuffing great pad type print, and had the back part been one big print I'd have said chuffing great canid, but now I'm thinking six or seven smaller prints
Yes...no?
The print was made by one individual... but you are thinking along the right lines.
looks like a load of thumb prints ?
Craig.............
That's a big cat, though I feel stupid for thinkng it...
and what with it being in Devon, I'd guess it was one of them mythical (or perhaps not so if I'm right) Panthers
actually I've got a story to tell, which is pretty much why I feel confident enough to click "post Reply"
_scorpio_
23-10-2010, 08:49
too small for a panther surely??
doesn't have to be adult ;)
looks like a load of thumb prints ?
Craig.............
I am going to have to agree with Craig, it looks to small to be a big cat, and to perfect to of been left by any other than a thumb, mabey the notorious thumb cat of nova scotia has been released, i think you can even see a nail imprint in the right lobe of the rear pad, definatly a thumb cat,
JonathanD
23-10-2010, 10:57
Craig & Southey are spot on, it is a faked big cat print made by what I consider is a human thumb. You can see the nail print in the pad and the overlapping ridges created. The person that took the picture claimed that a big cat was sighted one night and they investigated in daylight and found a long line of these prints. I called BS on it and the evidence points to the print being minutes old too, not to mention, coincidentally blurry. Completely anatomically incorrect, the faker has taken a perfect text book print and tried to replicate it...... badly. The fact that they claim there is a long line of these prints, and the freshness points to the photographer being the faker.
Haha Brilliant, did he not take picks of the whole track, poor bugger, does he not realise the wealth of experts on the net!
JonathanD
23-10-2010, 11:25
Haha Brilliant, did he not take picks of the whole track, poor bugger, does he not realise the wealth of experts on the net!
When asked about the other prints, he said that this was the only one worth taking as the others were partial or obscured. He also only took one blurry picture of the 'potentially important big cat track', which is akin to saying, "yeah I faked it". Since he was outed (still denying it is anything but a real track), more pictures have come to light, but they were taken nine days earlier and of dog tracks. You'll notice that he amazingly managed to take clear pictures of these prints :rolleyes:
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/data/500/medium/nature_pictures_9_10_10_062.JP G
What made it, not who.
A paw attached to some beastly animal! :D
Its amazing how a pick of an urban legend is always blurry, perhaps they are instantly taken over by the magnitude of there discovery and the camera hand is shaking as they are on the phone to the national press\local government\museums to inform them of the proof they have "discovered" proving the existence of large predators in our not so wild places! silly bugger,
hahaha! "epic fail" then...
doh!
Just felt my blood run cold for a moment.
Had a hairy moment 20 years back in Sri Lanka.. found a similar print, bbut a much softer impression in soft mud near a tank (water) in an area of abandoned irrigation channels and monastery complex found a print not unlike that of a cub and while examining it and beginning to realise how fresh it was found myself closer than I wanted to be to an adult female Leopard with cubs..
I survived...
But went on to freak all my neighbors out with my thumbs.. lol.
The thumb give-away is the broadness of the thumb print in relation to length on the toes, and the sharpness between the impressions on the pad. The print also appears "static".
Firelite
12-11-2010, 12:35
Since the substrate looks pretty fine, it might even be that if the picture wasn't out of focus there would have been fingerprint ridge detail visible.(?)
JonathanD
12-11-2010, 12:36
Since the substrate looks pretty fine, it might even be that if the picture wasn't out of focus there would have been fingerprint ridge detail visible.(?)
I'd put money on it. That's why they only posted the blurry picture.
Melonfish
12-11-2010, 13:02
Defo a giant machine of some kind, banging and wheezing like an asthmatic dinosaur in the mating season churning out millions of the blighters.
as for the print yeah i was thinking cat straight away but it just looked "wrong" somehow. the pad looks detached rather then one whole anatomic feature, you can tell each point was made individually.