Just another murder in Bangladesh » « Soon, I shall be rich and famous!

Something in this poster reminded me of home

Except…the text is disturbing. It’s on the wrong side of the continent. Read this story of a common occurrence around Puget Sound.

narrows_tentacle

Douglass Brown was 15 when he saw a giant tentacle emerge from Puget Sound.

He was in Tacoma, walking down the beach with a girl he liked. Then he looked out at the water.

“I see this arm come out of the water. It was 10, 15 feet in the air,” Brown says. “It looked like an octopus or something like that, and I just took off running.”

I can so imagine walking along the beach with my girl when I was that young, and enjoying the aquatic wildlife. Except that I can’t imagine running — that’s the part where you hold each other a little closer, and sigh romantically.

(Also, I think the “10, 15 feet” part is a gross exaggeration. “Inches,” maybe. But then, one does tend to inflate in those situations.)

Just another murder in Bangladesh » « Soon, I shall be rich and famous!

Comments

  2. Dan says

    I wonder what ever happened to that girl who young Douglass Brown was with? He reported that he “took off running” but made no mention of the girl’s outcome. Perhaps she was lured into the deep for a happy life with the tentacled beast?!?

  3. Larry says

    that’s the part where you hold each other a little closer, and sigh romantically as the tentacles reach out, grab hold of both of you, dragging you beneath the waves to be slowly devoured.

    Ahhh, that’s better.

  4. blf says

    Something in this poster reminded me of home — An escsaped zebrafish’s point-of-view of the mad doctor’s labs?

  6. Akira MacKenzie says

    PZ, where did you find that poster? All my Goggle searches turn up are Batman references. (Curse you, DC comics!)

  10. Zmidponk says

    Dan:

    I wonder what ever happened to that girl who young Douglass Brown was with? He reported that he “took off running” but made no mention of the girl’s outcome. Perhaps she was lured into the deep for a happy life with the tentacled beast?!?

    I’ve seen enough hentai…

  13. busterggi says

    If a tentacle emerges from Puget Sound and it can be seen in Massachusetts then that is one hellacious cephalopd.

  14. blf says

    If a tentacle emerges from Puget Sound and it can be seen in Massachusetts then that is one hellacious cephalopd.

    More likely, the FSM waving a strand “Hi!”

  16. some bastard on the internet says

    Akira @6
    This would certainly explain why Arkham Asylum has such a high rate of repeat inmates.