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Reward for identifying tooth from Loch Ness...

Story sounds incredibly fishy...

"Tooth" looks like the end joint off of some crustacean.

Notice the spines near the end of the joint?
 
A spike deer horn, sharpened and colored and polished a bit would look a whole lot like that photo. The blunt end does not look tooth-like at all.
 
It also seems a little fishy that they don't have the supposed tooth in thier possesion. A water bailiff took the tooth? How convenient. Now we are also supposed to believe that nessie is amphibious. If the whole thing were true, and nessie is supposed to have been around for hundreds of years, wouldn't we have alot more reports of tracks and mutilated wildlife than just this?
 
Ridiculous…

Look at the “tooth”.. NO animal ever has a tooth with small extensions jutting out from it. Even the discolouring at the tip is completely inconsistent with “tooth” and consistent with horn/antler etc.

The guy who suggested part of an Antler has my vote !
 
I don't think it's part of an antler, it's a whole one. The blunt end has the bit that connects the antler to the skull.
 
Hi there all - this is my first post here. I just usually browse these forums, but I cant help myself replying about this topic. I lived in Inverness for the first 17 years of my life so I know the surrounding area fairly well. There’s a few things id like to say about the story surrounding the tooth so ill just go through and point them out.

Firstly he doesn’t specify when in March he came to Scotland - as from the 19th onwards you can hire boats:.Caley Cruisers As for hiring a local - I suppose it is feasible, although where they “hired a local” from is still an issue - there are (to my knowledge) no places to moor a boat beside loch ness, there may be some at Fort Augustus (at the western end), but I am unsure. Anyway this is inconsequential - I will assume they acquired a boat and were cruising on the Loch.

Ok now they find a mutilated deer that’s been half eaten - why not wholly eaten? I mean it isn’t everyday a deer falls into the loch and drowns so I would expect a deer eating carnivore to munch the whole thing, (unless we are to accept that the creature goes out of the water to stalk deer now and again). That is, unless it ate fish too. I’m no expert or anything but I would expect something that eats fish to have considerable difficulty ripping a deer in two in the way described.

They are right in saying there are no bears in the “area“. In fact there are no bears (or wolves either for that matter), in the whole of the UK, and there haven’t been any for a couple of hundred years.

Anyway the part about the water bailiff smelt a bit fishy so I Googled “powers of a water bailiff” and it turns out that a water bailiff does not have the power to search a person - the writer hinted he was searched by saying “Fortunately, he didn’t find the earlier footage in my backpack”, although this could just be badly written. The water bailiff also would not have had the power to confiscate the “tooth” or his camera as they can only confiscate items relating to the poaching of salmon or trout. Powers of a water Bailiff

Ok still assuming all the above actually happened, they went to get their “tooth” back Where did they go? Police? Tourist information?? Random people in the street??? Seems they don’t know that one.
This part made me laugh it was so ludicrous! We’re supposed to believe that someone who KNEW the water bailiff threatened to take their passports off them? I don’t think the American Embassy would be too pleased since they hadn’t broken any laws or anything, and taking someone’s passport is no small thing, even in the wilds of Scotland!

The rest is just waffle on another subject that I’m not going to get into at the moment.

Anyway sorry if this was a bit long winded, but I felt it needed a thorough examination. I also think the antler explanation is probably correct.

Dal
 
Kilted said:
As for hiring a local - I suppose it is feasible, although where they “hired a local” from is still an issue - there are (to my knowledge) no places to moor a boat beside loch ness, there may be some at Fort Augustus (at the western end), but I am unsure. Anyway this is inconsequential - I will assume they acquired a boat and were cruising on the Loch.
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There're quite a few moorings for small boats, and it's not inconceivable that they simply asked someone in the pub. I've seen that done before by bold visitors.

"Where are you going to take them?"

"For 20 quid? Anywhere they want to go!"

As for the 'tooth' - :rolleyes:
 
richardm said:
There're quite a few moorings for small boats, and it's not inconceivable that they simply asked someone in the pub. I've seen that done before by bold visitors.

"Where are you going to take them?"

"For 20 quid? Anywhere they want to go!"

As for the 'tooth' - :rolleyes:
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Plenty places to moor boats on Loch Ness.

And I for one am not remotely surprised by the discovery of Nessie's tooth.

Indeed I had expected it for some time. Shortly there will be an announcement of the sighting of the majestic beast herself, although unfortunately the photos are slightly out of focus. However only the ignorant will deny that it finally proves the existence.

(At least that is what has happened at the start of the tourist season every year for as long as I can remember! ;) )
 
Chemical_Penguin said:
OMG, watching the video is definite proof that this thing is a hoax. I've seen better acting on my mom's soap operas.
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Precisely.

So clearly they are not actors, therefore it is real. Some people are just far too cynical.

Before you make your mind up you should really do seem field research at the visitor centre. Of course you'll need to decide if you want to go to the original:

http://www.lochness-centre.com/

or the official:

http://www.loch-ness-scotland.com/

(Please note that the "original" and "official" appear to refer to the centre rather than the monster. Nobody appears to be claiming there is more than one monster. At least not until the next quiet news day when a bit of free publicity might be available.)
 
Well technically if the creature is "real" then there must be more than one - actually there would need to be quite a few in order to maintain the population over the years :)
 
Having spent plenty of time in the company of the noble snow crab (and its best friend, potato salad), I feel comfortable saying it's definitely not part of a crab's leg; it's not hollow (crabs are basically muscle and exoskeleton) and the thick end of it isn't part of any joint assembly I've ever dissected (read: eaten) on a crustacean.

I'm about 90% certain it's an immature antler from some species of deer.
 
Is it a water- bailiff?

No! It's the Polis, afloat.
In a dirty big boat.
Shouting "Time Chentlemen, please!"

(Chorus)- "Oh, Campbeltown Loch, I wish you were whisky!
Campbeltown Loch, Och Aye!
Campbeltown Loch, I wish you were whisky!
I would drink you dry!"

:D
 
Having spent plenty of time in the company of the noble snow crab (and its best friend, potato salad), I feel comfortable saying it's definitely not part of a crab's leg; it's not hollow (crabs are basically muscle and exoskeleton) and the thick end of it isn't part of any joint assembly I've ever dissected (read: eaten) on a crustacean.
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I am a crab leg lover myself - the picture that looks the most like one is here .

Notice the orange toward the base and the black tip. I can't find any images of antlers that have those features. Although I haven't looked all that hard.

I do agree that the end is very un-joint like.

Either way, anybody that found that and called it a tooth is an idiot.
 
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